Politics no joke to Margaret Cho

[Khephra]

Thursday, October 7, 2004
BY KEVIN RANSOM
News Special Writer
It seems safe to say that the Bush administration doesn't have too many fans in rock 'n' roll or comedy circles right now - at least judging from the shows coming to Ann Arbor during the last weeks of this highly charged presidential campaign.

Comic Margaret Cho's performance at the Michigan Theater on Saturday will be the third politically themed tour to come to town in the last two weeks, following Yo La Tengo's swing-state tour on Sept. 27 and Laurie Anderson's politically conscious "The End of the Moon" show last Sunday. (And that's not counting the Vote For Change tours that also stopped in Detroit, Kalamazoo, Lansing and Grand Rapids on Sunday.) And it won't be the last - country-rock rebel and rabble-rousing "Air America" host Steve Earle comes to the Michigan Theater on Oct. 19.

Cho's "State of Emergency" tour is stopping in various swing states "and is directed at the state of politics in the United States right now," said Cho during a phone interview from her manager's officer in Los Angeles. Cho said her goal is twofold - she wants to change a few minds as well as galvanize the base for Democratic candidate John Kerry.


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[Scooter24]

1. I was lucky enough to see her live.

I absolutely love her. :)

[phantom power]

2. Pro-bush artists are not likely to book Ann Arbor :-)

Having lived there, it's safe to say that no agent for a pro-Bush artist would be stupid enough to bother booking their client at Ann Arbor.

I see sort of the opposite effect here in Phoenix. It's almost as if there is a force-field that causes artists I like to show up in Tucson, or Flagstaff, but very rarely in Phoenix.