Pete Seeger and Tom Chapin perform at this weekend's health care reform rally

Sunday's Health Care for All Rally at Nyack's Memorial Park could have been billed as a concert. Five musical acts have signed on to the show, including folk music legend Pete Seeger and Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and storyteller Tom Chapin (who is appearing with musical partner Michael Mark).

Along with Seeger and Chapin, two well-loved local acts are performing as well. The Roues Brothers will be performing an acoustical set and Patrick McGrath of ChinMusic will lead off the rally with a solo set.

Also performing at the event are New York City rocker Emory Joseph, who wrote the Bonnie Raitt song "Trinket" from her most recent album, Soul's Alike.

Interspersed with the music will be poetry and speeches by local health care advocates. They include County Legislator Connie Coker, Willie Trotman of the Spring Valley NAACP, yours truly, and several Hudson Valley progressive Democratic Party leaders.

The grassroots event advocates for universal health care. The group which organized the rally, Health Care for All Now, believes that affordable, equitable, and quality health care is a human right. The organizers expect hundreds of health care reform supporters from the Lower Hudson Valley to attend.

The event is co-sponsored by The Fellowship of Reconciliation, Rockland Progressive Dems, Spring Valley, NAACP, Nyack NAACP, WESPAC Foundation, Organizing for America, and the Rockland Women's Political Caucus.

Health Care For All Rally
Oct. 4
4:30 pm-7:30 pm.
Memorial Park, 53 Piermont Ave (at Depew Ave.)
Nyack, NY
Public information line: (845) 512-3261