No More Songs [Hobart] - Phil Ochs: The music & story

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No More Songs

The music and story of the legendary Phil Ochs

The Small Circle of Friends Band – Maurie Mulheron, Dave O'Neill, Deanne Dale, Peter Robertson and Tassie guest Peter Hicks are based in NSW and well known on the folk scene. See https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61581967126845

Maurie and Peter Hicks are the team who have put together the Woody Met Pete show and Dave O'Neill has played fiddle and mandolin with the likes of Eric Bogle. He is an exceptional musician.

Together the band present: No More Songs – a concert featuring the songs of Phil Ochs

Phil Ochs (1940–1976) was an American folk singer, songwriter, and political activist best known for his sharp, witty protest songs about war, civil rights, political corruption, and social justice; a true activist-musician who described himself as a “singing journalist”. He devoted his short life to music and radical protest and many of Ochs’ songs remain in the common vocabulary and repertoire of today’s folk singers. Despite this, even in North America this vital, powerful, gifted songwriter of sonorous voice is losing the recognition he deserves.

Phil was a prolific songwriter – Bob Dylan said "I just can't keep up with Phil—and he's gettin' better and better", but sadly the wider acclaim that his fellow folk singers found escaped him. Despite this, Ochs remained deeply committed to writing songs about specific political events and injustices. In the early 1970s, he organised large-scale benefit concerts that would…