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Tufts music professors Rabbi Jeffrey Summit and Paul Lehrman perform and discuss 1960s socially-conscious folk songs live on WMBR's Lost & Found program

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Two Tufts University music professors, ethnomusicologist Rabbi Jeffrey Summit and music technology expert Paul Lehrman, and their group including Tufts music faculty members Ian Goldstein, Ben Krakauer and Beth Bahia Cohen, are scheduled to join host Eli Polonsky live in the studio from approximately 12:15 PM to 1:00 PM EST to perform socially-conscious folk and acoustic music of the 1960s originally by artists including Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Tom Lehrer and other important songwriters of the day, and discuss how their music reflected and affected the great changes that were taking place in society during that time. This group will also be presenting "Songs You Should Know (And That Still Matter)", a concert and discussion of socially-conscious folk music of the 1960s, also on Tuesday, February 2nd at Tufts University's Granoff Music Center, 20 Talbot Avenue in Medford at 8:00 PM. The concert is free and open to the public. More information is available at http://www.tufts.edu/as/music or 617-627-3679.

Location: 88.1 FM

For more information about this event, contact:
Eli Polonsky
eli@wmbr.org
617-253-4000

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