How Bernie Sanders Is Rocking the Vote With the Help of a DJ & Former Punk Rock Promoter
By Gil Kaufman, BillBoard.com
(Monday, April 18, 2016 8:00 a.m.) — “Music is such a great addition when you’re talking about this candidacy with so much energy & excitement,” campaign staffer Rania Batrice tells Billboard.
Looking out over a 20,000-plus-person crowd in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Sunday afternoon, Grizzly Bear singer Ed Droste could not contain his astonishment. “I have for the past week been a surrogate for the Sanders campaign,” Droste told the throng, which included everyone from local teenagers to aged itinerant hippies stretching as far as the eye could see. “I have truly never seen anything like this in my entire life.”
