Nisha Rathode (Editor)

Jack Chernos

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Jack Chernos


Role
  
Singer

Jack Chernos The Silence of Good People by Jack Chernos YouTube

American federation of musicians member jack chernos


Jack Chernos (born 1961) is a San Francisco-based activist singer/songwriter. In the tradition of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan, Chernos plays his rousing, inspirational songs for social justice at rallies, pickets, and protests across the country and around the world. He performs on five-string banjo in the "old-timey" clawhammer style, as opposed to the three-finger Scruggs style developed by Earl Scruggs.

Contents

Chernos has written several political songs of historical significance, including:

  • "Sold Down the River", the song played in continuous-loop from the billboard truck of the United Steel Workers of America during the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in late 1999;
  • "My People Are Rising", which was also written for the WTO protests;
  • "The Union Grand", which was the theme song of the Million Worker March on Washington, D.C. in October 2004, where it was performed as a sing-along at the Lincoln Memorial; and
  • "The Silence of Good People", which was inducted into the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

    • my people are rising by jack chernos


    References

    Jack Chernos Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA