Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 7:30 pm Generations of Resistance, featuring:
Anne Feeney - Union maid, hell raiser, labor singer Evan Greer -Songs to inspire hope, build community and incite resistance Roy Zimmerman - Funny songs about ignorance, war, and greed Crossroads Music 48th and Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia - in Calvary United Methodist Church Tickets ($10-30) and more information at: http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=1973 In honor of International Workers Day, Crossroads presents veteran labor singer Anne Feeney and rising young songwriter Evan Greer of the Riot-Folk! Collective – joined by special guest Roy Zimmerman – celebrating multiple generations of community resistance through high-energy radical folk music on their fourth tour together. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Anne Feeney, whom Utah Phillips called "the best labor singer in America," is the granddaughter of an intrepid mineworkers' organizer who also used music to carry the message of solidarity to working people. After two decades of community activism and regional performances at rallies, Anne took her message on the road. Since 1991 she has traveled to the frontlines in 42 states and six countries. Her anthem "Have You Been to Jail for Justice?" is being performed by activists everywhere, including Peter, Paul and Mary. In 2005, Anne received the Joe Hill Award from the Labor Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. Past recipients include Cesar Chavez, Pete Seeger, Faith Petric and Hazel Dickens. Her critically acclaimed recordings are widely available. Evan Greer is a radical queer singer/songwriter, community organizer and popular educator based in Boston. His high energy acoustic songs that inspire hope, build community, and incite resistance have received high praise from the radical historian Howard Zinn and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, who predicts that his songs "will be sung on the barricades for years to come." At 24 years old, he tours internationally as a musician and facilitates interactive workshops to support movements for justice and liberation. With his fiercely radical songs that vary in style from punk-folk to foot-stompin' bluegrass, Evan has shared stages with artists as diverse as folk legend Pete Seeger, underground hip-hop star Boots Riley, Tom Morello, and rapper Immortal Technique. Roy Zimmerman has been writing and performing satirical songs with a decidedly Lefty slant for twenty years. "Lacerating wit & keen awareness of society's foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer," says the Los Angeles Times. "Reintroducing literacy to comedy songs," says Tom Lehrer. Roy has played clubs across the country, sharing the stage with George Carlin, Bill Maher, Kate Clinton, Dennis Miller, Sandra Tsing Loh, kd lang, Andy Borowitz and Paul Krassner. He's done several shows with The Pixies' Frank Black, swapping songs in a solo acoustic setting. His up-to-the-moment topical songs are featured on American Public Media's syndicated broadcast "Weekend America" and Sirius Radio's "West Coast Live." -- See more upcoming events at http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org Crossroads Music is in part supported by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Samuel S. Fels Fund. This project is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts funding partnership. State government funding for the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.
