Mat and Yvonne present a new repertoire of songs selected at the request of the Brooklyn Folk Festival, where they perform April 29 th, 2017. The program commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of a songbook, "Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People." This songbook was compiled by Alan Lomax, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger and contains more than one hundred songs composed by American workers and farmers in the 1920's, '30's and '40's. The duet's performance features the songs of Sara Ogan Gunning, Aunt Molly Jackson, Jim Garland, Ella May Wiggins, John Handcox and Woody Guthrie and includes history as well as music.

[source: Flying Squirrel website, 2017-Apr-10]