Resistance Songs ft. The Pinkerton Raid (solo) * Megan Bee * Eric Nassau

Leading up to Independence Day, The Pinkerton Raids songwriter Jesse James DeConto will release The Fight for Freedom was in VOGUE, about Lee Miller, Solange DAyen and the Parisian artists who stood up to the Nazi occupation in the ways they knew how. VOGUE is among a series of narrative-driven resistance singles from his upcoming full-length album, IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY, TELL THEM, singing his story as a dad trying to hold onto hope and imagine a future for his kids in the face of American fascism and climate catastrophe. Back home in Durham, NC, with partners like Indivisible, Jesse often leads singalongs of classic protest songs from Bob Dylan, NENA, Neil Young, 4 Non-Blondes, Crowded House and others. The sane response to tyrants is to sing, Jesse says on VOGUE, inspired by a famous quote by revolutionary painter Pablo Picasso. On Saturday, July 4 at Rumba Cafe in Columbus, hell trade sets with Athens, Ohios Megan Bee, whose experience as an environmental educator and volunteer farmhand comes through in her nature songs, and with Eric Nassau, a COMFEST honored artist who has performed in support of causes like the Rafiki AIDS orphanage and the ACLU. The music will run 7pm to 9:30, with the Clintonville fireworks show on display from the back patio after the show.