Magpie

About the artist

Magpie were an American folk duo consisting of Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner, who began playing together in Kent, Ohio in September 1973 while Leonino was completing her senior year at Kent State University, and who went on to a long career in political, labour and environmental song; they took a Wammie as traditional folk duo of the year in 1998. Leonino had been present at the shootings at Kent State on 4 May 1970, when National Guard troops fired on students protesting the war in Vietnam, and afterwards wrote the song commemorating them, which was performed at the twenty-fifth anniversary…