Guitar heavyweights jam for candidate Hall (19th CD, NY) . . .

[OneBlueSky]

By SUSAN ELAN
by Susan Elan
The Journal News
Sunday, June 4, 2006

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John Hall, right, sings with Jackson Browne, center, and Pete Seeger along with Dar Williams, not pictured, at a fundraiser for Hall's congressional campaign held in Garrison June 3, 2006. (Stuart Bayer/The Journal News)

GARRISON — The benefit performance by Jackson Browne, Dar Williams and Pete Seeger in a hayloft had the informal air of an intimate jam session.

But for the performers and the 125 guests who paid $250 a head to sit on folding chairs among bales of hay in the loft of a horse barn yesterday, the purpose was profoundly serious.

"We've got to take the Congress back so we can change the disastrous direction our country has taken under the Bush-Cheney right-wing cabal," Browne said during a two-hour benefit for Democrat John Hall, a singer-songwriter who hopes to unseat Rep. Sue Kelly, R-Katonah, in November.

The concert is one of four, $200-to-$250 events that the high-profile performers are holding for Hall, formerly of the band Orleans.

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[OneBlueSky]

1. more photos from the event . . .

Pete Seeger sings at a fundraiser for John Hall's congressional campaign in Garrison June 3, 2006. (Stuart Bayer/The Journal News)


Dar Williams sings at a fundraiser for John Hall's congressional campaign in a barn owned by Sandy Saunders of Garrison June 3, 2006. (Stuart Bayer/The Journal News)


John Hall, right, sings with Jackson Browne, center, and Pete Seeger, along with Dar Williams, not pictured, at a fundraiser for Hall's congressional campaign held in Garrison June 3, 2006. (Stuart Bayer/The Journal News)


John Hall, right, sings with Jackson Browne, at a fundraiser in Garrison for Hall's congressional campaign. (Stuart Bayer/The Journal News)

[OzarkDem]

2. Looks like a great event!

Wish I had been there. Did you attend?