Charlie Chin - "Ballad of Vincent Chin" - live NYC, 2009

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Charlie Chin performs a ballad he wrote in response to the beating death in Detroit of Vincent Chin in 1982.
Live - NYC, 2009, at Project Reach - Lower East Side. Performed for the "Basement Workshop Reunion" , a pioneering Asian American culture and arts space in the '70s and '80s in Chinatown, NYC.

For more on Charlie Chin, a folklorist, writer, teacher, musician and singer, check out
http://www.greatleap.org/charlie/

Vincent Chin story - In 1982 in Detroit, two white men had hurled racist insults at Vincent during his bachelor party and with accusations about auto job losses. The case and lack of jail time for the two killers, spurred a national "Justice for Vincent Chin" campaign and led to a wider movement against hate crimes and anti-Asian violence.

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  • He played the banjo on Buffalo Springfield's "Bluebird"!

  • @jasonpp1973

    Yup, Charlie's was one of the seminal banjo riffs of the era; banjo players are still discussing it.

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  • and still falling short of it.

  • and then there was Cat Mother and the News Boys. Does anyone know where he is now?

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