Death to Cynicism: Billy Bragg at the Bearsville Theater

An uplifting live show to suggest a New Optimism for the 2020s.

When Billy Bragg started his show at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock last Friday night (July 19) by going straight into a Leon Rosselson song about a group of British political idealists, the Diggers, whose attempt at autonomous equality in the Seventeeth Century was ruthlessly repressed by “the men of property,” there were several ways to take the …