The band had endured tough times up to that point: their original frontman, David Baker, leaving under a cloud in 1994 (although he recently admitted he was happy to go), and career flops driving Donahue towards wide-eyed songs from his childhood for comfort.
They'll mark the occasion with an island-wide song-writing competition, with the winning entry to be performed at the dawn ceremony.
Scientists scratch their heads over the whales' ocean-wide songs -- or, more technically, their hums.
Led by former Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, the 'guitarmy' marched peacefully while strumming protest songs including Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land and Morello's own World Wide Rebel Song.
My favorite page is U: a pair of portly, grass-skirted ukuleles hula dancing on a tropical beach, their sound-hole mouths opened wide with song.
And for a performance of his own call to arms "World Wide Rebel Songs," Mr. Morello invited the audience onstage.
Similarly, Mr. Morello, who began his career as the guitarist and chief ideologue for the band Rage Against the Machine, makes an unapologetic call for leftist revolution in his new album, "World Wide Rebel Songs" (New West Records).
Last month, Mr. Morello, 47, released his fourth full-length Nightwatchman album, "World Wide Rebel Songs" (New West).
It was "World Wide Rebel Songs" — not Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," which was also part of the show.
His sources were wide: early songs written for his Manchester street troupe, the Red Megaphones, echoed German or Soviet models; The Manchester Rambler, written when he was 16, drew on popular waltzes and music hall; The Joy of Living, a late song from 1986, refashioned a Sicilian folk tune.
