Long-time musician and activist, Billy Bragg, has announced that he will be on tour in North Amercia this September. Billy began the year by refusing to pay taxes to a government who bailed out UK banks and then allowed them to pay massive bonuses with taxpayer money.
In February, he performed with graduates of his Jail Guitar Doors initiative, a non-profit organization providing instruments to inmates of prisons. Later Billy played six specially written songs in a play entitled Pressure Drop about a working class family torn apart by racist politics. The play ran for four weeks against the backdrop of the UK general election.
The tour dates are as follows:
Sep 5 – Bumbershoot – Seattle, WA
Sep 8 – Cedar Cultural Center – Minneapolis, MN
Sep 9 – Turner Hall – Milwaukee, WI
Sep 10 – Dominican University PAC – River Forest, IL
Sep 11 – The Ark – Ann Arbor, MI
Sep 13 – Kentucky Theater – Lexington, KY
Sep 14 – Vogue Theater – Indianapolis, IN
Sep 16 – Bijou Theatre – Knoxville, TN
Sep 17 – Orange Peel – Asheville, NC
Sep 18 – Cats Cradle – Carrboro, NC
Sep 19 – 9:30 Club – Washington, D.C.
