Bread and Roses presents Joe Uehlein and the U-liners. Joe is the founding President of the Labor Heritage Foundation, a labor arts organization, and founder of the new arts and activism project, the CultureWorks Collective. Joe is also a founder of Voices for a Sustainable Future and the Labor Network for Sustainability. Joe has lived his life at the confluence of art and activism. From his early days growing up along the banks of the great Lake Erie, and working in an aluminum mill in Central Pennsylvania and on heavy and highway construction, Joe developed a keen interest in Rock & Roll and the Folk and Country sounds of working class music, protest music, and environmentally-themed songs and has become a well-known performer of songs of work, hope, freedom, and environmental action and labor rights. $10 suggested donation.
The U-Liners play a wide variety of music in the roots-rock and Americana genres including country, rock, folk, bluegrass, rock’n roll, swing, folk-rock, country-rock, blues, rhythm & blues, soul, and more. The band has a deep and eclectic repertoire ideal for dancing or listening. They have performed at the Rock and Roll hall of Fame in Cleveland, the Knitting Factory and the Mercury Ballroom in NYC, Bally’s in Las Vegas, at the AFL-CIO, SEIU, and all of DC’s finest venues, including The Birchmere with Pete Seeger, The Black Cat, Jammin’ Java, The IOTA Club, Madams Organ, the State Theater, the Millennium Arts Center, and many others. A rare specialty of this group includes songs of hope, peace, justice, the environment, and worker’s rights; and come from the band’s belief that we can make the world a better place.
