USER FRIENDLY MUSIC

USER FRIENDLY MUSIC
69 Maestas Rd.
Ranchos de Taos NM 87557
(575)751-1102
jofo@kitcarson.net

For immediate release

SONGS FOR THE UNSUNGS, A new radio series celebrating the contributions of American women to the labor movement is now available.

The creation of New Mexico composer-writer Joanne Forman, the series of short programs details women labor organizers from textile mill worker Sarah Bagley in the early 19th century to today’s Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers Union.

“Except for Mother Jones,” explains Forman, “these women, like so many, have been written out of history, and it’s more than time that they got their due.”

Forman herself was a volunteer with the Farmworkers Union, and also participated in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, as a member of the storied Free Southern Theater of New Orleans, and the organizer of a theater troupe for the Southern Student Organizing Committee in Nashville. Her first action was in 1948!

The composer of operas, musicals, orchestral, chamber and choral music, song cycles, hundreds of piano pieces and works for children, Forman says “Of course music is part of SONGS FOR THE UNSUNG. I’m very fortunate that singer/guitarist Jenny Bird added so much to this series.

SONGS FOR THE UNSUNG, the series of short radio programs about women labor organizers in American history is also available as a CD for schools, libraries “and whoever wants it!”