ROY ZIMMERMAN’S “STARVING EAR” Satirical songwriter Roy Zimmerman’s brings his show, “Live From the Starving Ear” to Baltimore Wednesday, April 4 at 7 pm for a performance at 2640 (Red Emma’s), 2640 St. Paul St. Admission for the show is on a sliding scale from $10 – $25. “Live From the Starving Ear” is 90 minutes of Zimmerman’s wickedly inventive satirical songs. The Occupy Movement, the Tea Party, same-sex marriage, Socialism, Creationism, guns, taxes, abstinence and yes, presidential politics all come under tuneful scrutiny. “There’s a whole new political landscape,” he says, “painted by Jackson Pollock.” The Starving Ear is Zimmerman’s homage to San Francisco’s legendary nightclub the hungry i. In the late 50‘s and early 60‘s the hungry i was a breeding ground for such talents as Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Phyllis Diller, Maya Angelou, the Kingston Trio, a melting pot of music, comedy and social message. In twelve albums over twenty years, Zimmerman has brought the sting of satire to the struggle for Peace and Social Justice. His songs have been heard on HBO and Showtime. He has recorded for Warner/Reprise Records. He’s been profiled on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and he’s a featured blogger for the Huffington Post. Roy’s YouTube videos have garnered over six million views and tens of thousands of comments, many of them coherent. And yes, he has a website: http://royzimmerman.c… . Roy’s lyrics have a decidedly Lefty slant. "We used to have a name for Right Wing satire. We called it ‘cruelty.’" His song "Vote Republican" is a mesmerizing mockery of GOP nonsense in the run-up to the 2012 election (already a hit on YouTube – http://www.youtube.co…. "Citizens United" is a sensuous slow-jam sneer at corporate personhood. "The Unions Are to Blame" lampoons the Big Business lunacy that has spurred thousands to Occupy Wall Street. There’s a theme song for "The Wedding of Church and State" and the hallelujah blow-out of "I Want a Marriage Like They Had in the Bible." The San Francisco Bay Guardian says, “Remember that old picture of Woody Guthrie with the sign on his guitar reading ‘this machine kills fascists’? Cross that image with Tom Lehrer, a dash of John Denver, Doctor Demento, and maybe a Mormon missionary, and you get something approximating the sight and sound of Roy Zimmerman, the clean-cut take-no-prisoners political satirist.” The Los Angeles Times says, “Zimmerman displays a lacerating wit and keen awareness of society’s foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer.” Tom Lehrer himself says, "I congratulate Roy Zimmerman on reintroducing literacy to comedy songs. And the rhymes actually rhyme, they don’t just ‘rhyne.’" Joni Mitchell says, "Roy’s lyrics move beyond poetry and achieve perfection." The HBO documentary “The Trials of Ted Haggard,” directed by Alexandra Pelosi features Roy’s song, “Ted Haggard is Completely Heterosexual.” Mr. Haggard himself said of the song, “It’s really bad — I mean, it’s poorly done — but it’s funny.”