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Tom Breiding

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Photo courtesy of UMWA

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Bill Toms and Hard Rain featuring the Soulville Horns

Bill Toms and Hard Rain featuring the Soulville Horns

Saturday, June 13 @ 8:00PMSat, Jun 13 @ 8:00PM

The Blue Note, 709 Washington Street , Durham North Carolina

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Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

Wednesday, July 15Wed, Jul 15

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Tom breiding included on superstar compilation release

"Bullmoose Special" Appears on Frontera Records Compilation Release Miners Angel

Along side the likes of Bob Dylan, Utah Phillips, Tom Russell, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Joel Rafeal, Robert Earle Keene, Gretchen Peters, Si Kahn, Hal Ketcham and many others, Tom's song The Bullmoose Special from his acclaimed 2008 release The Unbroken Circle: Songs of the West Virginia Coalfields appears on this tribute to Mother Jones CD. All proceeds from this Frontera Records project will help pay for the upkeep of the Mother Jones Monument at her burial site in Mt. Olive, Illinois. You can purchase this CD by clicking the link below.

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Breiding front page lead Story post gazette

In Waynesburg, working class anger bubbles up at coal miners rally

By Daniel Moore / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Carried by an Americana folk chord progression on acoustic guitar, musician Tom Breiding’s message was as poignant as any rallying cry issued from the podium at the Greene County Fairgrounds on Friday.

“Promises made, promises broken,” Mr. Breiding crooned over a D-chord. “Alpha they promised, Alpha they lied,” calling out bankrupt coal company Alpha Natural Resources, the owner of two mines in the county that this week sought to break its contract with workers so it can restructure its finances.

In multiple verses, he named others: Peabody Energy, Patriot Coal, Murray Energy. Clad uniformly in United Mine Workers of America camouflage, more than 5,000 supporters of the Appalachian coal industry whooped and hollered.