Jesse James DeConto (the Pinkerton Raid), Ben Mulwana, Brandon Reisdorf

Doors 6:30PM / Show 7:30PM

Seated show

$15adv / $20DOS

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Leading up to Independence Day, The Pinkerton Raid’s songwriter Jesse James DeConto will release “The Fight for Freedom was in VOGUE,” about Lee Miller, Solange D’Ayen and the Parisian artists who stood up to the Nazi occupation in the ways they knew how.

“VOGUE” is among a series of narrative-driven resistance singles from his upcoming full-length album, IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY, TELL THEM, singing his story as a dad trying to hold onto hope and imagine a future for his kids in the face of American fascism and climate catastrophe. 

Back home in Durham, NC, with partners like Indivisible, Jesse often leads singalongs of classic protest songs from Bob Dylan, NENA, Neil Young, 4 Non-Blondes, Crowded House and others. “The sane response to tyrants is to sing,” Jesse says on “VOGUE,” inspired by a famous quote by revolutionary painter Pablo Picasso. 

 On Sunday, July 5 at The Bur Oak in Madison, Jesse will swap sets with Ugandan-immigrant songwriter Ben Mulwana from Milwaukee and folk-rock revolutionary Brandon Reisdorf, mourning empire out of Chicagoland, with dark humor for the disillusioned and defiant.