
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 29, 1994                   TAG: 9403290109
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PEOPLE

Greg Trafidlo, Laura Pole and bassist Neal Phillips perform on a new compact disc that commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, during which three civil-rights workers were killed.

The disc is titled "Freedom is a Constant Struggle." It's from Folk Era Records of Chicago and was produced by Mike Fleischer for the Cultural Center for Social Change in Washington. The two-CD set contains 44 songs and performances by 22 artists, including Bob Dylan, Richie Havens, Si Kahn and Tom Paxton. "Summer '64/Oh Freedom!" was written by Trafidlo, of Bedford, and Phillips, of Blacksburg.

Pole, Trafidlo and Phillips performed it with backup singing from Robert Cardwell and the Voices of Zion of Lynchburg and Claire English of Roanoke.

Olympia Dukakis thanks her husband, actor Louis Zorich, for making her an environmentalist before environmentalism was cool.

"Really, Louis is the sort of guy who would stop the car when he'd see bottles and cans on the side of the road, and he'd get out and pick them up," Dukakis said.

Dukakis, who won an Oscar in 1988 for the movie "Moonstruck," was in Galveston, Texas, on Friday to accept the Environmental Leadership Award during the second annual Moody Gardens Environmental Leadership Award Dinner.

by CNB