Larry Long

Larry Long singing in New Orleans with a group of people

Larry Long recording a song collectively written with residents from the 9th Ward of New Orleans through his Elders’ Wisdom, Children’s Song program in partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Author Studs Terkel called Long “a true American Troubadour.” When Pete Seeger was told that Larry is often referred to as the Pete Seeger of Minnesota, Pete replied, “I would be honored to be called the Larry Long of New York.”

“Out of muteness, silence, and pain there comes a song. It rises from the earth, the exploitation, work, and sorrow of the people. It rises from struggle kept alive in our wonderful multiplicity and sounds the tenderness of our solidarity. Bird song, people’s songs, from struggle and death, from the lost and gone and mute, out of the corpse of our death we sing.

Then our joyous singer like Larry Long begins to come where we are working, where we are living, and listens, repeats like a mockingbird, or notes of nightingales or meadowlarks, makes songs out of the first and last breath. He sings where we are, about what is happening. He takes the real sound, the real words and gives us back our songs and we hear what singers we all are and how beautiful, and how strong.”  —Meridel Le Sueur, American Author & Poet

An Evening of Music & Storytelling with Kevin Kling & Larry Long

Join Hennepin History Museum for an evening of music and comedic storytelling featuring American singer-songwriter Larry Long and Minnesota playwright, actor, and author Kevin Kling. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness intimate performances by these treasured cultural advocates, with glimpses of their historic expedition down…

Let Freedom Sing: Music For A Change

Larry Long will be performing with pedal steel artist extraordinaire Joe Savage,  saxophonist Scott Fultz, bassist Sid Gasner, labor singer Emmett Doyle and Cannery Row for Let Freedom Sing: Music For A Change. Benefit Concert for Wright County Indivisible & Americans for Democracy. When: Sunday,…

Larry Long in Concert for the Opening of the Massacre at Flour City Exhibit on Saturday, July 12th, 6:00 PM, Free & Open to the Public

Ivy Arts Building, 2nd Floor 2637 27th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55406 This graphic historical exhibit uses a timeline of photos, newspaper clippings, maps, and first-hand accounts to retell the story of the violent labor struggles that convulsed the City of Minneapolis and the Seward…