JON FROMER Concert SAT. MAY 19TH at Dominican College 8 PM

[Sherri Maurin]

Hello, Friends---Jon Fromer is an incredible musician (see BIO below)
who has developed cancer. I hope you will join us for an amazing
concert, which will help with some of his medical expenses. I promise
you an excellent evening. Perhaps some of us can go together.

In peace----Sherri Maurin


Saturday, May 19th 8pm
A benefit for Jon's medical expenses
Angelico Hall at Dominican College
50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael


Jon Fromer is an award-winning singer/songwriter whose music is a
special blend of folk, blues and country that has been at the center
of movements for peace and social change in the San Francisco Bay Area
for decades. Jon is known for his rich soulful voice, rhythmic guitar
style, and poetic lyrics that capture the human condition.

From songs to unite us and songs of love to songs of homelessness and
war, “Gonna Take Us All” highlights Jon’s powerful vocals complimented
by his bluesy guitar style. His CD is enriched by the talents of a
number of gifted musicians from Mark Russo, saxophone player with the
Doobie Brothers, to the keyboard parts by Jon’s nephew, Reed Fromer,
who also arranged and produced the CD.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area Jon performs to packed houses in
cities around the country and in Europe. In June 2008 he was a
national finalist performing in the Music To Life competition at the
Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas. Judges included Judy Collins, Tom
Paxton and Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey from Peter, Paul and Mary.
Jon has won songwriting competitions from the Northern California
Songwriters’ Association and the Labor Heritage Foundation in
Washington D.C.

He plays for devoted fans in concert halls and clubs, but he also
lifts spirits in union halls, churches and, over the years, at
thousands of picket lines, marches and rallies going back to his
participation as a teenager in the historic civil rights march from
Selma to Montgomery, Alabama for voting rights.

Every November, Jon helps lead and organize the music for the annual
mass demonstrations of more than 20,000 protesters outside the School
of The Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia. Graduates trained at the
School of the Americas have committed some of the worst human rights
abuses in Latin America. The struggle to close the SOA has been called
“The most singing movement since the Civil Rights Era.”

Some of Jon’s songs have become anthems for the movement. His song
“We Do The Work” became the title song for a long running PBS series
of the same name and also is included in the Smithsonian’s latest
release “Classic Labor Songs.” It was the title song for a CD Jon
released in 1998.