Below you can watch a more home - style rendition of the tune, recorded just up the Hudson River from my home, at the Beacon
Sloop Club (if you live in the region, make sure to come by for the monthly potluck supper, meeting and musical jam session, the first Friday evening of each month):
I was lucky enough to share a stage (a grassy knob really) with Pete Seeger a couple of weeks ago at the Beacon
Sloop Club strawberry festival along the Hudson River (along with Steve Stanne, in the middle; photograph by David Rothenberg):
«The Mouse That Roared» comes to mind in pondering a move made in recent days by a tiny, barebones Hudson River environmental and sailing group, The Beacon
Sloop Club.
I've added Bruce Cockburn «s searing 1988 song «If a Tree Falls» to my performances of late (you can hear me sing it tonight after the performance of «Extreme Whether» at Theater for the New City in Manhattan and at the Beacon
Sloop Club Pumpkin Festival on Sunday in Beacon, N.Y.)
Soon after I moved from Brooklyn to the Hudson Valley in 1991, I began frequenting the Beacon
Sloop Club, the little sister to the Clearwater organization that he launched in 1967.
First came the revival of the river's waters, through the activism of groups like
the sloop club (which takes people on free sails on the sloop Woody Guthrie on summer evenings), Clearwater, Scenic Hudson and many others, but also through ambitious programs to build sewage plants and tighten pollution laws.
Not exact matches
«Environmental advocacy organizations, including Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson, NRDC, Sierra
Club Atlantic Chapter, Hudson River
Sloop Clearwater and many others have highlighted these widespread expert opinions on the cleanup and concur that more work needs to be done.»
It comprises Friends of Historic Kingston, Friends of Rondout, Hudson River Heritage, Hudson River
Sloop Clearwater, Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson, Sierra
Club and Sustainable Hudson Valley.