Last Saturday night at the Festival of the Sea in San Francisco, Ed Silberman and Lani Herrmann cornered me and asked me for help in distributing a recording they made of a song Ed wrote about the Bush Administration's response (or lack of response) to Hurricane Katrina. They want to make this a fundraising effort for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Their recording is available for download here (click).

The download is free of charge to anyone who has donated five dollars or more to the hurricane relief effort. If you haven't donated yet, you may download if you promise to donate $5 or more to the American Red Cross or the American Friends Service Committee or other worthy hurricane relief effort. If you download and don't donate, your conscience will haunt you in the wee hours, every night until you make a donation.

The song is called "The Damn Fool Took Four Days," lyrics by Ed Silberman and tune by Pete Seeger (used with permission from Pete), © Seeger/Silberman, 2005. Recording is by Ed Silberman & the Outraged (Faith Petric, Shana Winokur, Lani Herrmann, Arlene Immerman, and Claire Sherman; with David Brown, Banjo). You can hear many of these singers on the In Harmony's Way CD.

Great work, Ed!!!

-Joe Offer-