A Celebration of Victor Jara

Celebrate the life and legacy of Chilean musician and social activist Victor Jara with the award winning, Vermont-produced film "The Resurrection of Victor Jara," followed by a q-and-a session with writer/producer John Summa. Saturday, January 25, 7 pm at Barre's historic Old Labor Hall, 46 Granite Street. Tickets are $10. For more information go to http://oldlaborhall.org/ , email info@oldlaborhall.org or call (802) 479-5600.

A leader of the Nuevo Cancionero ("New Songbook") movement, Jara joined folk-based music with socially-committed lyrics to help inspire movements for social change in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain during the 1970s and '80s. At age 42 following the 1973 coup against Chile's democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, Jara was arrested, tortured and assassinated by the usurping president Augusto Pinochet's military.