Back From the Grocery Store with Music & Justice

P.J. Hoffman was a musician, performer, songwriter, & social justice worker in his youth, playing violin, French horn, tuba, guitar and piano, including 4 years with a group called The Mystics. But one day he woke up without the gift of music which he had always had within, and he ended up on a different path for decades. Retirement brought him back to his gift and his roots, born out of 1960's folk music and activism, resurrecting & updating his slate of music. We had him on NSR previously for an interview he did with George Lakey for the Everyday Nonviolence Podcast. P.J. Hoffman joins us from Minnesota's Twin Cities.

Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Methodist, Quaker

All featured music is written & performed by P.J. Hoffman, unless otherwise noted:

Silence and Song - from Muscle and Brain

Let Your Perfect Light Shine - from Yesterday Hill

Empires Crumble - from 70s and Change

Happy Birthday, USA - from 70s and Change and A Pure and Simple Love

We Can Make the Changes - from 70s and Change

Until We All Know Freedom - from 70s and Change and A Pure and Simple Love

Here's to the People - from Muscle and Brain and 70s and Change