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Melanie DeMore Leads Community Sing in Tucson

May 3, 2019April 6, 2019 by Norah Booth

Photograph (head shot) of Melanie DeMore

“A song can hold you up when there seems to be no ground beneath you.” — Melanie DeMore Melanie DeMore, emissary of tolerance, kindness, and harmony, will lead a Community Sing at Southside Presbyterian Church, 317 W 23rd Street, 7 pm, Saturday, April 13, 2019. What is a Community Sing? Foremost, it is a fine …

Clyde Robert Appleton, a Life of Music and Struggle for Peace and Justice

February 19, 2016January 29, 2016 by Thomas Moore

Clyde Robert Appleton, an icon in Tucson’s progressive and folk singing communities, died of a stroke on October 1, 2015, a few weeks short of his 87th birthday, following a long period of declining health. A Community Sing in his honor, in the tradition of the Tucson Folksingers, a group he founded in 1955 and …