The Solidarity Singers’ Annual ECS May Day Concert

The Solidarity Singers of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council will perform in honor of May Day and Labor History month.
The Solidarity Singers will celebrate the Workers’ Holiday with songs of labor and the continuing struggle for justice. There will be familiar songs and/or songs with easy-to-learn choruses.
They will highlight the effects of financial crises on workers and non-upper-class people in general. The Solidarity Singers have sung at rallies and protests in front of banks who are reluctant to lend but eager to foreclose on peoples’ homes. They will share some of those songs. They will also do some great songs of labor history past, some of which are unfortunately quite relevant to today.
“We are a street chorus, not a concert choir. Our preferred venue is a picket line. We try to lift the spirits of people engaged in struggle and help them to carry on. Only a few of us know how to read music, but we all know which side we’re on.”
Over the past seventeen years, the Solidarity Singers have appeared hundreds of times on picket lines, at rallies for labor and other progressive causes, and in occasional concert settings, including the annual May Day celebrations at the Botto House/American Labor Museum, commemorations of the hundredth anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s birth and many others. The group is available for scheduling through its director, Bennet D. Zurofsky, at (973) 642-0885, or e-mail him at bzurofsky@zurofskylaw.com.
A number of Ethical Culture Society of Essex County members are in the group, including Lisa Novemsky, Rosalie Sussman, Barbara Cotler and Diane Beeney.