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PeaceNick: the Holiday Show! from Satirist Roy Zimmerman

Steinway Hall (12121 Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90064)
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PeaceNick is satirical songwriter Roy Zimmerman's send-up of the joys, pains and absurdities of the holiday season. It's an evening of family-friendly seasonal satire from a decidedly Lefty-Pacifist-Humanist point of view with music to laugh at while the presents get unwrapped and the Bush administration comes unglued.

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this guy is amazing. he is bright, well informed, funny, and talented. it was certainly worth it. i even bought a CD. }elizabeth
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  • “Zimmerman displays a lacerating wit and keen awareness of society’s foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer.” --Los Angeles Times

Description

Roy Zimmerman writes fiercely funny songs about ignorance, war and greed.  In eleven albums over twenty years, Roy has brought the sting of satire to the struggle for Peace and Social Justice. His songs are heard on NPR, PRI, Air America and Sirius Radio. Roy’s YouTube videos have garnered over two million views and tens of thousands of comments, many of them coherent.

The show includes “Christmas is Pain,” a Dylan-esque protest song about the agonies of overeating, clear cutting pine trees, drunken Santas and sharp candy canes. “Christma-Hanu-Rama-Ka-Dona-Kwaanza” is a vaudeville-style patter song (one can almost hear Danny Kaye) about the Season as celebrated in all world cultures.

Zimmerman deals with the war in Iraq in “I Won’t Be Home for Christmas” which he croons as a young soldier spending Christmas Eve under attack in Tikrit. “If I was home,” he says, “I’d have the love of a good woman.  And who needs that when you’ve got the adoration of a grateful Iraqi people?”

It’s all original material, much of it co-written by Zimmerman and his wife, Melanie Harby. “Satire is a family value for us,” he reports.

“Peacenick” is a hilarious and heartfelt look at the Holidays, sometimes scathing, sometimes silly.  The show ends on a humanistic note of hope: "And the sun comes up, and the world is saved/Every time a child is born."