Daily Worker
March 28, 1941
BALLADS FOR LABOR HIGHLIGHT PROGRAM OF ALMANAC SINGERS
The song of protest is having a political as well as an esthetic renaissance. Never before has American Labor played for such stakes as today — and the songs of the Almanac Singers reflect yesterday’s and today’s grievances of the workers in every corner of the United States. Theirs are the songs of the Southern sharecropper, the conscripted youth, the political prisoner, the fighting unionist, the evicted farmer and the dust bowl refugee.
Tonight at the Malin Studio Theatre, 136 West 44th Street, the Almanac Singers will perform these several kinds of Ballads and Blues. The audience will also have the opportunity to participate in the program because the Almanac Singers always make it a point to teach their songs to their lis
teners. It was announced yesterday that an album of records has been made by the Almanac Singers entitled “Songs For John Doe”; the album will soon be on sale at Eric Bernays Music Room.In addition to the entertainment provided by the Almanac Singers, the Seven Arts Guild has also arranged for a number of songs and sketches which will be performed by members of the American Youth Theatre. The audience is invited to stay and dance after the scheduled program. Because the Almanac Singers have an engagement to sing at the Marcantonio Dinner later tonight, it is imperative that the program begins promptly at 8:30. Tickets, all of which have been priced at 40 cents, will go on sale at 8.