I am off to Shrewsbury Folk Festival later today and I hope to have something to report back of music that relates to human rights. Two years ago I wrote on this blog about some political songs that I had heard or sung at the festival...

Salil Shetty is the new secretary of Amnesty International and he comes from India.

The School of the Americas needs to be shut down before it causes one more death or other serious abuse of human rights in Latin America. President Obama came in with radical ideas and powerful speeches and I must admit that I was...

Some people do not like music and I think that they miss out on a wonderful expression of human creativity As a musician I think that listening to and playing music is a human right although I am certainly fussy about which music I...