Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Protest Songs & “People’s Spirits” Echo At Musical Rally In Manhattan
deadline.comThis is Day 106 of the WGA strike and Day 33 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. A backup singer featured in the Oscar-winning 2013 documentary 20 Feet from Stardom had center stage on Tuesday morning at a musical picket line outside NBCUniversal headquarters in Manhattan.
On a crowded thoroughfare at Rockefeller Center, Janice Pendarvis led other vocalists and several dozen SAG-AFTRA picketers in call-and-response verses and choruses of the protest anthem, “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ’Round.” It was the first of three solidarity marches uniting musicians and actors on SAG-AFTRA’s Tuesday pickets schedule, with events also happening in Nashville and Los Angeles.
In New York, Pendarvis marched and harmonized with her 20 Feet co-star Lisa Fischer as well as singer and former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Peppermint.
They were joined on the picket line by Juno and The Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page. Elliot Page, Peppermint, and Janice Pendarvis were among those demonstrating today at the SAG-AFTRA musicians picket in NYC
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