In lieu of a traditional holiday party, the AFL-CIO hosted a small concert in the Samuel L. Gompers room last night. They brought in a couple of hard core, activist musicians – the Boston-based celtic punk band Street Dogs and the godfather of punk, Wayne Kramer. Street Dogs rose from the ashes of the Dropkick Murphys. Front man, Mike McColgan, actually left the Dropkick Murphys to become a firefighter and only returned to playing music full time about six years ago. Wayne Kramer, of course, is the former guitarist for MC5.

The show was pretty damn awesome. Both sets were fully acoustic, but the Street Dogs still rocked it like it was plugged in. And a middle-aged AFT member showed up carrying a vintage MC5 album from the early 70s and we got to see Bob Creamer, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky’s husband, get his groove on near the front of the audience.