Jack Chernos

Jack Chernos (born 1961) is a San Francisco-based activist singer/songwriter. In the tradition of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan, Chernos plays his rousing, inspirational songs for social justice at rallies, pickets, and protests across the country and around the world. He performs on five-string banjo in the "old-timey" clawhammer style, as opposed to the three-finger Scruggs style developed by Earl Scruggs.

Chernos has written several political songs of historical significance, including:

References

  1. Egelko, Bob (October 16, 2009). "Obama brings left, right together in Union Square", San Francisco Chronicle, p. A16.
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