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"Power, which lies within us" – German Concert tour March 2009 Pittsburgh’s singer/song-Writer and social activist Mike Stout is embarking on March 13, 2009 on his fourth concert tour of Germany. In 2008 Mike performed for thousands at Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate as part of the German Nation Protest Day. Mike’s German fans and promoters have organized a March tour of Germany with ten appearances in 7 cities across Germany. He will return in May with more dates in more cities. See Mike's Events page for date and venues. ================= Happy Birthday to Pittsburgh Celebrating Pittsburgh's 250th Anniversary The Point of Pittsburgh CD To commemorate Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary, historian Charles McCollester’s shocking new book on the history of Pittsburgh and singer-song writer Mike Stout’s haunting CD about Pittsburgh heroes and are jointly released under the title “The Point of Pittsburgh”. With rarely told gripping stories about the struggles of Pittsburghers and its many surprising characters McCollester and Stout evoke a renewed sense of pride and awe at what Pittsburgh and its inhabitants have meant to the world through history. "The Point of Pittsburgh flips the stock storyline of the Steel City on its head" - Poet Pete Oresick, Chatham University For Charles McCollester and Mike Stout, the Point of Pittsburgh is the unconquerable spirit of the people of Pittsburgh who forged the modern world. During its 250 year history Pittsburgh’s pioneers, abolitionists, blue-collar workers, union activists, inventors, musicians, sports heroes, educators, and doctors fought to improve life on this planet. Mike Stout has composed a CD of songs commemorating the hard working people of uncommon valor who shaped Pittsburgh and the world. Celebrated are the Pittsburghers who risked their livelihoods and lives to battle for the end of slavery, civil rights, worker safety, child labor laws, the 40 hour work week, fair wages, freedom, and justice. Mike Stout sings the stories of unsung heroes from Pittsburgh’s past.
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Celebrated in song are abolitionistt Martin Delany, boxer Billy Conn along with labor leaders Fannie Sellins (written by Anne Feeney), Crystal Eastman, The Cotton Mill Workers, Monsignor Charles Own Rice, and Sean George. The 8,000 McKees Rocks immigrant workers who struck for worker safer and equitable pay are remembered in “Blood on the Rocks”. In 1909 the dreaded Coal and Iron Police invaded Mckees Rocks to break the strike and a two hour gun battle erupted in which six strikers and five constables were killed, and more than fifty were wounded. The folkie fiddle flavored tune "Homestead Town" recalls the Glory Boom Town - the forge of the universe - where the union took on the Pinkertons and the streets where full of people in the middle of the night. In the Dylanesque song “When the Heyday Was Here” Stout remembers the winning fights for democracy and workers rights in Pittsburgh and exclaims even through the mills and the unions are gone they can’t take back the history and accomplishment we made here. Happy Birthday to Pittsburgh In the waltz tempo Americana song Happy Birthday to Pittsburgh Mike Stout salutes an historical parade of Pittsburgh heroes from the earliest indigenous natives through the abolitionists leaders heroic women union activists, the millions who worked in the steel, glass, and coal industries, to the displaced refuges of the Steeler Nation spread across the globe. Their city and it’s people are celebrated with the chorus …”From the North Hills to the South Hills to the East and West End….Happy Birthday to Pittsburgh from your family and friends.”