Protest Songs for the New Millennium

11 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Political Folk, FOLK: Political



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Yikes McGee plays the D.C. rallies and demonstrations, performing on stages at McPherson Square, Lafayette Park - across the street from the White House, Farragut Square, Meridian/Malcolm X Park, and Upper Senate Park outside the Senate offices, including performances for D.A.W.N. (D.C. Antiwar Network), ReDefeat Bush, the Dennis Kucinich campaign, World Can't Wait, and various other organizations

Yikes is a long time folk singer from the Baltimore/D.C. area. He has played on farms and at fairs and parks and festivals, including the Takoma Park Folk Festival, at coffeehouses, clubs and concerts. He has also produced over 100 folk concerts around Baltimore.

Three and a half years ago, influenced, if not overwhelmed by ever-worsening political events leading from the âelectionâ of 2000, and to the war in Iraq, Yikes began writing simple, catchy, anti-Bush, anti-rightwing songs. The resulting album, âPropagandyâ is widely played on Air America Radio, Pacifica Radio Stations, on leading independent political radio shows, by such progressive luminaries as Thom Hartmann, Peter Werbe, and Mike Malloy. Several of these songs have appeared on a variety of compilation CDs of protest music, on websites and blogs.

Of the first four songs released, the âBad Presidentâ has been downloaded 1,000âs of times from various internet sites, and is played regularly on left-wing radio. âPropagandyâ was featured by NPRâs âAll Songs Considered,â in an online forum. âThe Cowboy Presidentâ is played repeatedly on Air America Radio, and was included with some of these others on a compilation CD of political songs, produced by Sea Lion Records. âPNAC: or the Neo-Masters of Warâ has been played on a number of shows and is a recurring favorite of Meria Heller on her highly rated political web-radio show.

Yikes has added songs to the collection along the way. These new songs too, have gotten radio play and Internet attention, especially, âThe Liar,â which seems to be popular after major Bush speeches. âHello Mama,â a bin Laden ballad is a crowd pleaser and gets downloaded a lot.

Political protest has a long tradition in American music and in folk music throughout the centuries. Yikes McGee is a folk-singer first, and tries to put the traditional style to good use on his new political folk/protest songs for the new Millennium.


Tags: folk: political