Monday Night Music

Join us for this series of concerts featuring musicians from the Stratford Festival.

The Protest Song, Reimagined

The SPECIAL INTEREST group brings a new rhythm to songs of hope & struggle. Listen as the group infuses songs from the civil rights, labour and protest movements with elements of folk, blues, rock, R&B, jazz, reggae & ska.

Revisit protest songs of old, and encounter a new generation of politically conscious music, all reimagined in the hands of a top-notch group of Toronto musicians. Brand new versions of classics and little-known gems, generating a dialogue of songs with a unique series of medleys and mashups, as captured on the band’s popular release, The Spark.

• The Buffalo Springfield hit For What it’s Worth dances to the ska groove of the Gaylads’ Peace, Love and Understanding
• International Women’s Day anthem Bread and Roses becomes a newly inspiring ode to feminist struggles
• Patti Smith’s People Have the Power turns into a stirring and poetic soliloquy
• The insight of David Byrne’s Listening Wind meets the passion of Bruce Cockburn’s If I Had a Rocket Launcher
• Canadian troubadour Ian Tamblyn’s (Once Was a) Village becomes a breathtaking lament about urban ‘development’ with the help of Pat Metheny’s (Across the) Heartland