Indigo Girls, Jenny Lewis & More Protest President Donald Trump At Ann

Protest tunes have dependably been a key segment of folk music. So it was nothing unexpected that the end of the week's 40th Ann Arbor Folk Festival, particularly in the wake of the earlier end of the week's Women's March occasions and President Donald Trump's charged first week in the White House, went up against a strongly political tone.

The references came both specifically and quietly amid the two-night occasion at the University of Michigan's Hill Auditorium on Friday (Jan. 27). Emcee Susan Werner led the pack, rewriting The Beatles "Back in the U.S.S.R." to reference Russia's evident hacking exercises into the U.S. presidential race and viably blending a gnawing and disobedient new melody called "My Strange Nation," which got an overwhelming applause, with a passionate, ballady version of The Beatles' "Help." reports, WN.

Margo Price noted that her tune "4 Years of Chances" has "gone up against new meaning recently," additionally articulating that "folk music is alive and well with the state of the world. And Native American artist lyricist Nahko and Bear and his band Medicine For The People electrifies Friday's group with their charged song of devotion "Dear Brother" and its call for "Peace In America."

Kiefer Sutherland, in the interim, kept governmental issues generally out of his set (and in addition any references to 24), yet he spoke about being profoundly respected to perform on a phase where the late Martin Luther King, Jr. talked in 1962 reports, Music News Web

Ann Arbor, obviously, has for quite some time been a liberal stronghold and facilitated one of the Women's Marches the past Saturday, so the entertainers' feelings played to energetically related spirits. The celebration is put on consistently by The Ark, which has been working for a long time in Ann Arbor and as of late finished a $2.8 million capital battle that permitted the non-benefit association to purchase its building and begin redesigns.