I will be heading throughout the Southeastern U.S. starting next week (March 10), on a 2 week tour! Stops include: Lake Worth, FL, Miami, FL, Sarasota, FL, St. Petersburg, FL, Gainesville, FL, Tallahassee, FL, Atlanta, GA, and Asheville, NC. Check my shows page or Facebook for more info.

Here's a fun video I pieced together from this awesome show I did with my collaborative riotfolk / hip hop project, Back to the Roots, (featuring spiritchild of Mental Notes.)

We were honored to open for The Coup, People Under the Stairs, and Japanther in Boston on 12/5.

Here's the video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/gcQ9lQoY78A

Enjoy! Please share!

We are 2/3 way to the goal for my new album!! Consider supporting it, even with just a $5 or $10 pre-order, or with a huge donations that will get you every single one of my CDs plus a custom poster series! Got 2 weeks to go, visit my KICKSTARTER PAGE to support.

Hey folks,

I'm pretty excited about this show so wanted to put it as news!

On December 5th I'll be at the Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge, MA opening for legendary hip-hop funk group THE COUP (with emcee Boots Riley), LA old-school hip hop favorites PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS, and indie-punk weirdos JAPANTHER.

8pm! Tickets are on sale here.

Hope to see you there!

-Evan

Hey yall, I have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the money to release my next CD, entitled "Today And Tomorrow." It's gonna feature a bunch of amazing musicians, some new songs, and a really great booklet/CD case designed by Justseeds collective member Erik Ruin! Go check it out, and consider throwing some support my way :) $5 gets you digital pre-order, $15 gets you digital and CD pre-order, and more gets you more special stuff, a limited print-run of the insert art, a DVD of footage shot during the recording, and more...

AK Press has just announced the publication of WE ARE MANY: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation, which features a lengthy piece by me as well as many other pieces of analysis and reflection by many good people. I will have many copies to sell on my Midwest tour coming up, but you can also order it through AKś website!

hey folks,
  some of us here at Riot-Folk are working to put together a Benefit CD project to support members of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot who were recently sentenced to two years hard labor for performing a protest song against the Putin government and the Russian Orthodox Church.

There is a facebook group for the project here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/349699768444758/?ref=ts

More info coming soon! Please get in touch if you can help with promoting this project or if your band wants to donate a track! We are particularly looking for songs that are about or dedicated to Pussy Riot or that exemplify the radical feminist politics that the band went to jail for.

ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS PROJECT WILL GO DIRECTLY TO SUPPORT PUSSY RIOT and the considerable costs associated with their incarceration.

For more info on the case go to www.freepussyriot.org

If you want to help with the Free Pussy Riot Benefit CD project, e-mail Evan: evangreer@gmail.com

hey folks! just wanted to let everyone know about a show that i am incredible honored to be a part of. THIS SATURDAY, JULY 21st I am opening for Gil Scott-Heron's very own MIDNIGHT BAND at a Tribute to Political Prisoners, Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge, MA. This is a truly historic moment and I am so stoked to participate.

DETAILS on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/482740901742343/

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!!!
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=4655785&pl=mideastrestaurant

My punk band Bouncing Betty recorded a demo last night, first ever recordings of ours. Check it out! And keep up with us on Facebook too.

That's right, Tom has joined my European "Occupy And Beyond" Tour. He will be performing in all shows from Berlin to Athens, check our shows page for details, or RSVP on Facebook and get updates!

hey folks!
check out this cool article about my music and life as a touring transgeneder parent and musician, plus an interview with me about mainstream queer politics, transfeminism, Against Me!, and more

and on top of that you can listen to a streaming mixtape of some of my favorite queer or queer friendly artists!

here's the link: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/music/139045-homegrown-trans-rocker-evan-greer-keeps-her-music-/

xo,
-evan

 I got 5 shirt designs now available for mail-order through my Odonian Records project! Check it. R-F logo is one of em, and some others of my own design. I also am distributing Son Of Nun's album "The Art of Struggle" and soon to be announcing a bunch of other CDs available! Keep an eye out.

 I am really psyched to announce that my next album, Today And Tomorrow, a double-CD, is in the works!! I spent tonight compiling a little update about it, which includes a new video and a 10-song demo for download. It also includes a write-up on what to expect in the album. Diiiiiiig it.

Me and Brenna's band, Lightnin' Seed, have a Kickstarter campaign up right now. We have three more days for it. Check out our video and download our sampler at this page

Ok it's official: ME, TOM FRAMPTON, & ADHAMH ROLAND are going to rock a show together in Oakland, CA on May 4th! If you didn't notice, it's been years since we all played together.

RSVP on Facebook here!

It's at a new radical social space called The Holdout, and will be just a few days after the May Day strikes! We are psyched!

Hey folks!
I've finally posted the dates for my much anticipated West Coast TINY FISTS TOUR with legendary riot-grrrl cellist activist mama BONFIRE MADIGAN SHIVE (formerly of Tattle Tale, off Kill Rock Stars and K Records, founder of the Icarus Project, and so much more!). We're traveling the whole coast in APRIL with our partners and babies carrying an arsenal of acoustic instruments and a whole lot of reusable diapers!

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

This is a 100% grassroots effort to spread activism through music and workshops and we need YOU to help promote these shows! Please take a second to check out our dates and if you know anyone in any of these cities, let them know we're coming! There are a few places we still need help booking too, so get in touch if you have any ideas: evangreer@gmail.com

Check out the Tour's facebook event and take a second to invite your WEST COAST friends: http://www.facebook.com/messages/697470522#!/events/338985329472285/

Hey Pittsburgh!

Please spread the word about this last minute SURPRISE show THIS Friday, Jan 20th by BACK TO THE ROOTS, my collaborative project with South Bronx political hip-hop artist spiritchild of Mental Notes.

9pm @ Assemble



5125 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
All Ages. $5 - 15 sliding scale suggested donation.

Please invite everyone you know to the facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/254459317957800/

And bring your friends!

Check it! The good folks from folk to folk interviewed us Baltimore Riot-Folk folks...

hey folks, I just posted a brand new DIY music video of a NEW song called "Their Days are Numbered." I wrote it on 11/25/11, National Day of Mourning (aka "Thanksgiving.") It's some of my thoughts on the #Occupy movement woven with images from struggles for liberation around the world.

Check it out on YouTube: http://youtu.be/XYjP8Fgn1Js

Anti-copyright. Please share, remix, etc.

Check out the websites for me and Brenna's band, Lightnin' Seed, and my solo electroclash act, Aryeh Gonif.

ryan, in his nonchalant style, was recently posting on his facebook from INSIDE NYPD Central Booking. He was arrested during the N17 Mass Day of Action in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street with many hundreds of other people who successfully blockaded the New York Stock Exchange this morning.

Currently over 10,000 people have massed at Foley Square in response to the NYPD and Mayor Bloomburg violently evicting the occupiers from Zuccotti Park.

Ryan seems to be safe for the time being and said spirits of the arrestees were very high. We'll post updates here once he is released or if any support is needed!

On November 15th, Palestinians in the West Bank started Freedom Rides on segregated buses. Baltimore Jewish Voice for Peace made a music video in solidarity with them. Check it out here and downlod the song here

I made us a Twitter account so we can keep in touch with all yall folks, for show updates, news, views, and more!!! Spread the word.

Hey all, I posed some new videos on my website, including a few new songs and some live footage from my European tour!

hey folks! just a little heads up that my October Friends Not Fans Newsletter is now online!

this month's newsletter features a 10 minute behind the scenes video from my recent tour with Anne Feeney, lyrics to a new Back to the Roots Song about Troy Davis, a plea for donations for my broken guitar, and more!

View it online here:

http://evangreerfriendsnotfans.blogspot.com/2011/10/october-2011-friends-not-fans.html

Want to receive these once-a-month updates in your e-mail?

Sign up here: www.evangreer.org/list.html

just a heads up about this last minute but amazing show!

TONIGHT @ #OCCUPY WALL STREET

10pm in Zuccotti Park, Manhattan

acoustic revolutionary performances by:

RICK BURKHEART of the PRINCE MYSHKINS

EVAN GREER & FRIENDS (impromptu band set w/ members of Born In A Cent)

and more TBA!

you never know what could spark the rebellion, so make sure you're there.

promote on facebook!

Back to the Roots, my hip-hop/folk/punk collaboration with South Bronx emcee spiritchild of Mental Notes / Movement in Motion, are playing a bunch of FREE shows this week! 

THU, OCT 20: 6pm @ Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH

FRI, OCT 21: 10:30am @ Occupy Cleveland! (they're permit runs out this day! be there to defend the encampment!)

SAT, OCT 22: Stop Police Brutality Rally, Union Square, NYC

i may play a solo set @ #Occupy Wall St saturday night too! details TBA.

SUN, OCT 23: benefit house party TBA in New Jersey

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14th, @ 5:00pm.

I'll be playing a set with labor legend Anne Feeney for the good folks who are Occupying Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC.

We're going to try to make it over to Occupy DC to play a little set too! Time TBA! Check my facebook to stay up to date!

You never know what might spark the revolution.

-Evan

Click here for the newest antizionist dance hit by my drag troupe, Yoni and Malkah. It's a rewrite of Rihanna's "S&M". Enjoy

Our friend Francisco has written a piece on our collective for Portugal Indymedia, dig it!

My September, 2011 Friends Not Fans Newsletter is NOW ONLINE! check out the link below for latest news, photos, videos, and more!

http://evangreerfriendsnotfans.blogspot.com

Want to receive these updates in your e-mail? Sign up at www.evangreer.org/list.html

hey riotfolks, i got a chance to go hang out and perform for the awesome folks who are occupying a park near Wall Street in NYC. They've been there for four days and are standing strong calling for an end to corporate greed. There were several arrests this morning and they need reinforcements! Get to NYC if you can.

Details, streaming video, and more: www.occupywallst.org

 Check out this article the Baltimore City Paper recently published, featuring interviews with me and Mark.

Hey MArk, you're not the only one who remebered how to work a computer! I fixed my links so they go to archive.org where you can download all my albums....so go do it!

I re-uploaded three albums that disappeared off into the internet ether. They're back now though. Check them out in my music section or download them with one click each here: Panopticon, A Mingling of Freak Phenomenon and The Good Times And The Bad. Enjoy.

Hey yall, I'm in Europe!! Touring for TWO MONTHS! Check out my shows section, or better, scoot on over to my 
other site <http://www.ryanharveymusic.com> for more complete listing, 
some posters to download, and Twitter updates :p

The first chunk on tour will be with Florida's Dirty Fist!, the rest 
will be solo, but I will be joined by a bunch of rad folks along the way!!!

AND I posted up the MP3s and lyrics for the new album, *Ordinary 
Heroes*! Go check em out 
<http://ryanharveymusic.wordpress.com/about/726-2/>! And support me by 
buying the CD as soon as I get mailorder figured out for it!

Hey friends! Just letting you know that I have a bunch of NEW RELEASES in the works!

Daily Revolution Records in Saratov, Russia is releasing a split-CD of me and Russian folk-core songwritert Politzek, which translates to "political prisoner." That should be out soon and will feature a bunch of rare, unreleased studio, live, and on-air radio tracks. it will be quirky and fun. it also features a radio show performance that i did with Anne Feeney on the very last day that I ever took Adderall. pretty special.

Also in Mid-October I'm releasing a collaborative CD with South Bronx hip-hop freedom singer spiritchild of Mental Notes and Movement in Motion. the project is called Back to the Roots and combines all the best elements of folk, punk, and hip-hop to remind us of our roots of resistance. we'll be releasing a single soon and touring the Northeast once the album is released!

Then in January, I'll be releasing a full-length Evan Greer & Friends CD and touring the entire country to celebrate. You can PRE-ORDER the new CD and support this effort by donating at http;//evangreer.bandcamp.com -- the new CD is being recorded by Jory Leanza-Carey of BROADCAST LIVE and will feature awesome people like GHOST MICE, BORN IN A CENT, MAJESTY, spiritchild, BELL'S ROAR, HOLLY from HUMANWINE, and more!

Hey yall, my friend Anthony was recently diagnosed with cancer and we are raising monet to support his hospital bills and such! A new comp has been released featuring an unreleased song of mine. Also featured are: The Pist (yes, the old school east coat punk band), Less Than Jake, The Wild, Mischief Brew, The Menzingers, Spoonboy.

Go buy it and help support Anthony, he's a great dude.

My June Update and Friends Not Fans Newsletter is online now!
This month's edition has tons of NEW videos and photos plus a link to subscribe to my new YouTube Channel, Lots more fun stuff!

View it online:
http://evangreerfriendsnotfans.blogspot.com

Want to receive these updates in your e-mail? Sign up at www.evangreer.org/list.html

hey friends! i've started posting monthly newsletters online at http://evangreerfriendsnotfans.blogspot.com

Head over there to check out May's edition now featuring NEW videos, cute pictures of baby saoirse on stage at his first May Day rally, and more. if you want to receive these updates by e-mail, you can sign up at www.evangreer.org/list.html

ALSO i am honored to announce that I'll be performing a song or two at the upcoming Benefit Tribute Concert for my dear friend Anne Feeney in NYC on May 13th, featuring PETE SEEGER and PETER YARROW (of Peter, Paul, and Mary) among others. Buy your tickets now at www.annefeeney.com

check out these fun videos of me and south bronx hip hop freedom singer spiritchild rocking out Back to the Roots style at Worcester's May Day Celebration. Note that i have my baby saoirse strapped to my back during the performance. he's the third member of our lil riot-folk hip hop crew.

"900" by spiritchild featuring me (on YouTube)
http://youtu.be/MZ0F3Nug0zc

"Ya Basta" by me featuring spiritchild (on YouTube)
http://youtu.be/4Qw1EP0D7Gg

We're currently booking BACK TO THE ROOTS performances for summer and fall, so get in touch if you want to bring us to your community! E-mail: evangreer@gmail.com

In a fit of patriotic subversion, my drag troupe, Yoni and Malcah, recorded our rewrite of Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, tonight. Here it is. Enjoy.

Hey yall, so I designed myself a new website for my music, as good old riotfolk.org can't host videos, writings, and some other features I wanted to have up. My new site is also part of my attempt to be a bit more sustainable this year musically, meaning I will be appealing to folks for donations/to buy CDs to help keep me touring, recording, and making stuff happen.

Along with that, I have a new video up of a new song! It's called "Fulfill It" and I wrote it after my time in Wisconsin occupying the Capitol.

Read report here. Folks inside Capitol are saying that thousands of people have stormed the building, police have "thrown in the towel", and people are occupying the Assembly chamber to blockade tomorrow's needed vote by the House! Go Wisconsin! For updates, visit the DEFEND WISCONSIN webiste.

NOW BOOKING: TINY FISTS TOUR 2011
with BONFIRE MADIGAN & EVAN GREER

Bay Area to Tijuana, April 22 - 30, 2011

Hey West Coasters! Please get in touch NOW if you can help with a show in your town on the TINY FISTS TOUR, two queer families full of riot-folk! fury heading down the West Coast in Late April with an arsenal of acoustic instruments and a whole bunch of cloth diapers.

E-mail: evangreer@gmail.com to book us in your town!

Hey yall, 2 videos of me performing in Wisconsin are here and here. Also, check out my articles, photos, and videos from my time in the occupied Capitol in Madison on my blog, Even If Your Voice Shakes.

To anyone who can make it to BOSTON this Wednesday, Feb 23rd! There is an incredibly important bail hearing for Tarek Mehanna, an Arab and Muslim political prisoner who was tageted by the FBI for refusing to become an informant against his own community.

Please spread the word and show up to stand for JUSTICE. Be there by 1pm and bring two forms of ID!

Hey yall, here's a video the lovely folks in San Diego shot of me performing "Far Away From Here" during my west coast tour that ended... tonight!

Tonight's show: Blood Orange Infoshop (3643 University Ave), Riverside, CA. 8:00.

Ok. Baltimore's Son of Nun put his amazing CD Art of Struggle online for FREE download. If you haven't heard S.O.N., get this. It's the best radical hip-hop around, my word. Get it! Hands down one of my favorite albums.

hey good people of the south! so every year for the past few i've made it a tradition to tour florida. i've done it by bike, greyhound bus, car, and some hitchin, but i've never done it with a baby! 

anyhow, me and erin and babty Saoirse are migrating south from FEB 1 - MAR 5th, and unfortunately i've been having a lot of trouble booking shows, so there's still a ton of open dates that we really need to fill!

please get in touch ASAP if you can help set up a show at your house, school, activist center, gay bar, whatever. just e-mail me: evangreer@gmail.com

i'll consider shows near north florida too in places like Alabama, Georgia, etc.

thanks!!!

-evan g

Hey all, I'm trying to get some funding together to release my next CD, which will be coming out I assume in April or May. To do that, I'm looking to see if any of you good folks would be interested in having a show for me at your college, and helping me get honorarium cash from that. I'd glady do 2 shows in town, or whatev. Email me if you're down, I would so appreciate it and would love to have my music help out any work you might be doing on your campus!

Hey yall, so my newest album-in-the-works is called Ordinary Heroes, and unlike the 2 years I spent making Blowback, this one will be a short project. I'm recording the entire album in 2 days, Feb 15-16 or so. We're gonn do it all live in my house with a bunch of artists in the roon! It's gonna be a wild project. Til then, I've recorded the album solo and just uploaded here! Dig..

Check out the new Lightnin' Seed sampler. Lightnin' Seed is me and Brenna's band that does songs about herbs and storms. Check us out when we tour the west coast in April, and if you want to preorder our CD, Musica Millefolium, email riotherb (at) gmail.com.  Click here to download the whole sampler.

I am pleased to announce a brief tour I am doing with the remarkable A Stick and A Stone from Philadelphia, PA, February 13-18 on the West Coast! Check out his myspace at http://www.myspace.com/nataliejoythefairyboy. He will be touring before and after these dates as well. Appearances from Adhamh Roland and Tin tree Factory as well! The specific info will be under the shows section soon.

Hey yall, here's a video of a song I wrote on New Year's day, about my hometown (Baltimore County, MD) and a great rebellion against slavery that started there and ended in Christiana, PA.

Also, hey westcoast! Early Feb im touring Southern California and ending up in the Bay. Check my shows section for details.

Here's an article I wrote about what the attack on a fifteen year old has to say about African American and Jewish relations in Northwest Baltimore.

jewsforhumanrights.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/the-shomrim-and-the-militarization-of-jewish-northwest-baltimore/

hey y'all, i'm so excited about this show in Brooklyn tomorrow that i had to post it on the front-page.

Come down tomorrow night, SAT, DEC 4th.
8pm @ The Commons, 388 Atlantic Ave, to celebrate

MOVEMENT IN MOTION'S 8th B'day
BACK TO THE ROOTS TOUR KICKOFF, and
spiritchild's DARK MATTERS CD RELEASE!

featuring a HUGE lineup of hip hop, folk, and more:
spiritchild of MENTAL NOTES, EVAN GREER OF RIOT-FOLK, BELL'S ROAR (seantel of BROADCAST LIVE'S solo project), SISTAH MIA, NORTH OF DIVISION X, more!

MORE DETAILS ON FACEBOOK. INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!

I want to let all of our friends and fellow musicians and everyone else know that we are 6 years old this week!!! Wooop!

When a music collective idea came to my mind in early 2004 , I never envisioned it becoming the thing that it did or impacting so many people in such profound ways. I had known Mark and Tom for years, but randomly meeting Ethan and Kate at the Miami Free Trade Area of the Americas protests as I welcomed a group of Mainers to the Convergence Center was the initial spark, and then meeting Adhamh, Brenna, and Evan in the next few months after that solidified it. Some of them knew or knew of eahc other too, so it was sort of a matter of time before we figured something out.

After our first conference call around time in 2004, it instantly became a functioning collective effort that was so fun to be part of. In 2005, we were lucky enough to meet Shannon as she toured California and welcomed her into the group a year or so later.

Now, after countless tours, shows, songs written and recorded, and organizations supported, we look back on a list of good times and successful cultural work. Though we have never been the fundraising body we once envisioned, we have certainly influenced many in our travels and definitely hit our main goal of making folk a threat again. Many musicians have emailed us to let us know that they take inspiration from us, and our collective model has been expanded upon by numerous other music collectives.

It is not often that a project like this lasts past 5 years, they say that's the cut-off. And though we have organically morphed this last year into a more decentralized network than even before, we still maintain our shared webspace and our little ninja/black bloc logo thing, and we still support each other as we perform and get work done in our hometowns.

Here's to all who have helped us make this collective effort possible, first and foremost to the Riseup Collective for hosting our website for so many years, to Micah for designing and programming our websites, to all the organizers, writers, musicians, and other folks who have inspired us, to all of you who set up shows, housed us, fed us, hung out with and showed us around town, and who spread our music on countless burned CDs.

So, to all of you, those who have been friends for a long time and those who have recently stumbled upon us through a YouTube video someone made randomly one day or a song you heard on a mix CD that you found at someone's house you were staying at, or because you searched for Ryan Harvey the minor league baseball player but found me instead, thanks for listening and supporting Riot-Folk.

Stay tuned, we're still making music an we're still committed to the egalitarian vision that we share, and we are still organizing for real social change in our lifetimes. And thanks for spreading the word!

Hey yall, here's a new video folks from Rochester posted of my recent show at the lovely Flying Squirrel community space. 

Also if you live in the Mid-Atlantic region and think i'd be a good addition to an event in the near future, or the subject of one, I'm looking to book shows within a few hours of Baltimore over the next few months, so get in touch!

Farm workers and organizers in Immokalee, Florida have announced a major victory in their campaign for justice in the fields. The Coalition of ImmokaleeWorkers and the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange signed an agreement to extend the CIW's Fair Food principles to over 90% of the Florida tomato industry.

hey. I'm looking to tour with my electroclash act (aryeh gonif) in the northeast/midantlantic in december. if anyone in or around philly, boston, DC, western mass, connecticut, new jersey or new york wants to help me set up a show or has a suggestion of a place to play, send me an email at markoleo(at)riseup.net. thanks!!!

We are safely home from baby Saoirse's first tour ever. 21 shows in 9 different countries traveling mainly by mass transit, it was quite the epic adventure!!! thanks so much to everyone who came out to the shows, danced and sang along, helped us find our way, cooked for us, put us up, helped us carry luggage up stairs, fawned over the baby, etc. etc.

There are some pictures posted HERE.

Next big tour with the baby is EAST COAST and FLORIDA in FEBRUARY, so get in touch now if you want to help bring us to your town! E-mail: evangreer@gmail.com with ideas.

Hey yall, I have posted a second video from my upcoming album "Ordinary Heroes". The song is called Elwood and it's about my ancestor Elwood Harvey, an underground railroad conductor in Pennsylvania. The album is nowhere near done, but expect it in the spring or summer of 2011. Dig it.

Also, I did an interview with the folks from the War Resister's League recently and it's now online. It touches on organizing, riot-folk, some of my songs, the against me! controversy, and other things...

Hey yall, Riseup.net, to whom who owe eternal gratititude for making the Riot-Folk website and extensive downloads possible (which happens to be the crux of how we get our music and words out there) is asking for help! They are trying to stay afloat to continue offering their invaluable services to the radical online community, providing secure email, web hosting, email lists, and more to folks working for social justice. PLEASE SUPPORT THEM if you are in a spot to offer some cash!

My newest album is finally, after 2 1/2 years, ready. I started it several times and just couldn't find the time and energy to finish it, but recently Mark and I just pushed through it and made a beautiful CD. Please support this by getting the album, which I am hoping folks can put $10 down for. I did all the artwork for it myself, the painting, collage, layout, recording, mixing, and song-writing. Mark helped a lot with recording and wrote one of the songs as well. It also features many guest artists who added their talents to the soundscape. I'm digging it, I hope you do too.

Hey friends!

We're leaving tonight for Baby Saoirse's first tour ever, 22 shows across GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, NETHERLANDS, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, ENGLAND, AND WALES.

the main shows page is being wonky, so for a list of updated shows, click here!

if you're in europe or know anyone over there, please spread the word about these shows!

hope to see you soon!

xo, - evan g

I made this video of me singing my new song "Tea Party" and giving a rant afterwards on my thoughts on the tea party movement. Check it out and pass it around!

I'm setting out to do a video like this every 2 weeks, all songs from my upcoming album "Ordinary Heroes" which is still in the laboratory. But every 2 weeks til it's just about done a new song with a video and rant will be up here!

The RNC 8 received some surprising news Thursday afternoon - charges against Luce Guillen-Givins, Monica Bicking and Eryn Trimmer have been dropped!

Also, piracy activists have carried out coordinated attacks on websites owned by the music and film industry.

My friend Sarah has finally been released by the Iranian governemnt after a year in prison. Word is that Shane and Josh will spend at least another 2 months in jail. They were falsely accused of spying after hiking over the Iraq-Iran border while spending time in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Hey folks, here's a real easy way you can help me out! I entered my song "Picketline Song" in the Union Song Contest, and if I get the most votes I could win a much needed $2,000, which would be enough for me to release a new CD! 

You have to register to vote, but it doesn't take long.

Please take a moment to vote for me here: http://members.unionsongcontest.org/entries

Thanks!, -Evan G

Yay! Our baby is finally here!

Saoirse Dahy Giolligan Fitzgerald-Greer was born at our home in Boston on August 14th, 2010 at 2:25am, weighing in at 7 lbs and 21.5 inches tall!

I'm working on writing down the story of our wonderful labor, which will be posted soon. We are so greatful for the amazing team of friends, midwives, and our doula who supported us through the birth, which was to say the least the most incredible experience of my life. Saoirse's name is pronounced "Seer-Sha" and means "freedom" in Irish-Gaelic. Baby is very healthy and happy and eats pretty much all the time.

So does this mean that I'll be "settling down" and getting a "real job?" Nope. Baby Saoirse and my amazing partner Erin Ryan will be coming with me on several tours this year including Europe in October, Northeast in November, Southeast in February, and West Coast in April. Get in touch NOW if you want to bring us to your town, we'd love to come! E-mail: evangreer@gmail.com if you have any ideas for us!

Currently music is our little family's only source of income, so if you want to support us and keep us on the road offering political music and workshops, now would be a great time to buy one of my CDs or make a donation for the music you download. You can do that at www.evangreer.org or www.cdbaby.com/evangreer

Me and Brenna's new project, Lightnin' Seed, is going on a tour of the US next March and April. We'll be giving workshops about herbal medicine, singing our songs about herbs and storms and wildcrafting along the way. And we've been working on some dance moves you won't believe. If you can help set up a show or a workshop in any of the following places, email us at riotherb@gmail.com: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Northern California, Oregon (especially on the coast) and Washington. Thanks! Herb nerds unite!!!

Holy crap. After 3 years I'm finally taking myself on a tour again! I've been working hard at the jobby job, but I need to be singing songs more. So I'm doing 2 things tentatively right now:

1. Upstate NY, Canada, and a bit of Vermont: MID-OCTOBER

2. Southeast (my first SE tour!), VA to FLA , GA, NC: MID-NOVEMBER

Email me at if you've got ideas or wanna help out at all... See ya soon.

well, still no baby yet, but little Saoirse should be joining us any day now! in case you didn't know, we're taking our baby to EUROPE this OCTOBER, and we still need a little help with booking shows and workshops in GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, IRELAND, ENGLAND, and WALES.

e-mail me: evangreer@gmail.com if you can help us with contacts or suggestions for baby-safe places to stay, cheap vegan food to eat, cute queers to meet, etc!

so i didn't think i'd be playing any more shows until after our baby comes, which is very very soon! but then this popped up super last minute.

come out TOMORROW, TUESDAY JULY 27th to check out boston's newest queer-femme pop-punk band, BLAME THE PATRIARCHY plus some awesome touring folks who need your support.

it all goes down around 8:30pm @ Wallingford Museum in Brighton. E-mail me or kaitentou@gmail.com if you don't know where it is!

Tuli Kupferberg, cartoonist, poet, activist and founding member of the proto-folkpunk band the Fugs died yesterday at the age of 86. Tuli was an uncompromising critic of everyone and everything, a mad Jewish revolutionary songweaver who straddled the gaps between generations, bridging hippie, beatnik, punk, and folk subcultures into a great, steaming pile of gor nischt.

He was a dirty old man, he will be missed and I hope he is giving out funny cigarettes and Communist literature in that great schoolyard in the sky. Check out the classic Fugs songs "Nothing" , "CIA Man" and Tuli singing "Where Is My Wandering Jew?"

so as some of you already know, my partner Erin Ryan and I are having a baby this summer! we're super excited and it's getting really close!

we're planning to take the little one on their first big tour in OCTOBER in EUROPE and we need your help finding shows, and baby-safe places to stay!!!

we're open to ideas, but right now we're mainly looking for gigs in the following countries: GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, DENMARK, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, and ENGLAND.

E-mail: evangreer@gmail.com if you can help with contacts in any of those places! Thanks so much!

Hey everyone, I have a blog now! It's called EVEN IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES. It's all my articles/essays I've written over the years.

Come out for a east coast/west coast Riot Folk explosion of wonderfulness June 29th, 7:00 at Red Emma's 800 St. Paul St. Adhamh, Brenna, Ryan, Mark, oh my! Bring canned or dry food for a friend who was in a car accident and needs all the grub she can get.

I'm coming to Chicago, Detroit, and Austin ,TX to do shows associated with Iraq Veterans Against the War and the Civilian-Soldier Alliance! Check out the SHOWS section for details.

My friend Tristan, nearly killed last year by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Nil'in, is back in California!! Check out info here.

US activist loses eye after being shot in the face with a tear gas canister in the West Bank during protests against Israel's murder of at least 10 people onboard the Free Gaza boats.

Check out a new article I wrote and that Common Dreams published. It's an update on the situation on the ground in Iraq and suggestions for a staggering anti-war movement. And check out the organization I helped build and work with, the Civilian-Soldier Alliance.

Also, folks might be interested to hear Tom Gabel of Against Me's thoughts on their new single "I Was A Teenage Anarchist". Having opened for AM early on in my song-writing, and seeing their popularity surge in the last few years, I have mixed feelings about the direction they chose, but also sympathize with their bitterness at the scene they, and I, came out of. Read it here.

Everyone needs to get their hands on Silence Broken, a brand new compilation CD released by the Tarek Mehanna Support Committee. Proceeds will go to support Tarek Mehanna, a muslim and arab political prisoner who has been targeted by the FBI for refusing to become an informant against his own community.

The CD features tons of brand new original material about Tarek's case and related issues, and amazing acts including REBEL DIAZ, CLIMBING POETREE, X-VANDALS (members of Public Enemy and RIcanstruction), HASAN SALAAM, BROADCAST LIVE, TAINA ASILI Y LA BANDA REBELDE.

It's also got a remix of my song, By Morning featuring the words of Ida Luz Rodgriguez, a Puerta Rican political prisoner, read by Boston's revolutionary band Presente.

BUY THE CD HERE: http://freetarek.bandcamp.com/

Holy Crap! I put new MP3s up! Check em out. They're from my newest recordings and some from the Manifest Democracy album. They are demo recordings, not finished yet.

The Arizona state legislature approved the toughest anti-immigration bill in the country, giving police the authority to determine people's immigration status based on "reasonable suspicion" or more bluntly put, the right to racially profile immigrants. Please sign this petiton immigration.change.org/petitions/view/tell_governor_brewer_to_stand_up_for_arizona_and_veto_sb1070 and call Governor Jan Brewer at (602) 542-4331 demanding she not allow AZ to be turned into a police state. And do it soon! This could be signed into law within a couple days.

Hey yall. My friend Bobby Whittenberg has released his first album, "No Gods No Master Sergeants". Bobby is a Marine corps veteran of the Iraq war, and now embraces anarchism with a solid critique of violence and war. CHECK OUT HIS SONGS!

hey all,

 so the riot-folk site has a little glitch that deletes the shows we're playing on the day of the show so all you nice people can't see em!

our show tonight on the Generations of Resistance tour is in Cincinnati. we've got a 3pm workshop at the University and a 8pm concert at The Vatican in Newport, KY

apparently my myspace isn't working to get show details either, so for now, you can visit Anne Feeney's website for all our tour dates: www.annefeeney.com/calender.html

if yer still havin trouble finding us, shoot me an e-mail: evangreer@gmail.com and i'll lead you to the gig.

thanks!
-evan n anne
generations of resistance tour

Check out this interview I did with the Kingston, Ontario based radical Jewish radio show, Radio 613 radio613.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/episode-36-riot-folk-an-interview-with-mark-gunnery/

Hey yall, a bunch of new videos have been posted of me performing new songs. There's a few of me in NY, playing "Blowback", "Placing the Blame", "American Mythology", and "Terry Whitmore" from my yet-to-be-released album "Blowback" also known as "Manifest Democracy", as well as videos of me doing "Talkin' Mean Machine" and "Search and Avoid".

There's also another video of me doing "Ordinary Heroes", a brand new songs dedicated to Howard Zinn, at a United Workers function in Baltimore.

hey friends!

i'm leaving next week for tour with Anne Feeney, who's a seriously bad-ass radical feminist labor singer from Pittsburgh. we're calling it Generations of Resistance, and we'll be playing and singing together, accompanying each other on a range of acoustic instruments, and offering interactive workshops on neat stuff like radical feminism, organizing skills, and eco justice.

check the shows page for dates across the MIDWEST and NORTHEAST in APRIL!

xo,

-evan g

Please check out the U.S. for All of Us call to action and statement of commitment, sign it and get involved. www.usforallofus.org/  At this moment in US history where barely veiled racism in the form of tea parties, anti-immigration groups and anti-healthcare protests is mobilizing many white people, it is of vital importance that white anti-racists step up and organize to fight for a truly just, inclusive world and country where there is no room for racism. This is a good start.

For those who are wondering just what the deal is with my new album, Manifest Democracy (or some other name), here's the deal. I've been working on this thing for over a year and a half, writing the songs, recording them slowly, trying to add the right spices to it. I have beautiful cover art for it and big ideas. In the meantime, I've started writing songs for an even newer release, which aims to be a lot of positive energy (this album is pretty haunting).

So, it's nearing compleition. I was trying to release it this month, but my computer died last week and much of the album is on it. So I'm waiting for a friend to extract the files, then I'm gonna save some cash and try to get myself a new used-machine, and get it back together.

That said, please consider buying it when it comes out, cuz it's got a lot of time and energy stuffed into it. I will start posting MP3s up as I finish them, hopefully within the month.

I crumbled and chipped up a bone in my elbow in December. So all winter tour plans have been put on hold. It is a long recovery... Sorry sorry sorry says sad little the elbowless folk-singer:(

I posted up a new album of my electronic music. Enjoy. And I'll be on tour in the southern US with Slow Teeth the first week and a half of February.

Damn. I don't know where to start. Howard Zinn turned things upside down and rightside up again, and the work he put into the telling of history, the stories he amplified, the justice he spread through his words and actions, has been a gift to my generation and those to come. A People's History was the first real book I read, and it turned a young man who hated history into a young, eager historian! So, onward! Continue making history, and a new generation of grassroots historians will continue to put the work in to record it and pass it along to the future generations, so they can learn from an expand on our work.

Read it, write it, teach it, make it!

Iraq Veterans Against the War benefit show TONIGHT, Studio 34, West Philly, 4522 Baltimore Ave. With Ryan Harvey, Erik Petersen, a wee bit of Mark Gunnery, and more!

Come through. 7:00 PM

Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.

Hey yall. I re-uploaded The Good Times and the Bad album so you can download it again. Sorry for the confusion. I also re-uploaded my split with Tom Frampton. And I posted a new writing, "Mythology in the Age of Seattle".

I wrote a song on new year's eve/day sort-of summing up the decade in a way. It's called Blowback. Also, expect my new album, Manifest Democracy, in the next month or two!

Full Story Here.

Stop-lossed Army Specialist Marc Hall (aka Hip Hop artist Marc Watercus) was placed in the Liberty County Jail Friday, December 11 for releasing a song critical of the Army's Stop-Loss policies and of the War in Iraq. He was shipped off to jail after talking to to his Ft Stewart, Georgia commander Captain Cross about not wanting to redeploy. Call the jail at 912-876-6411 to demand an end to this illegal confinement. Also send letters of protest to: CPT Cross, Commander, B 2-7 INF BN, Fort Stewart GA 31314.

hey friends,

 just letting you all know that i've posted tentative dates for my upcoming Southeast Tour with queer fabulist / puppeteer, GEPETTA!

check out my SHOWS PAGE to see our tentative route!

if you don't see your town listed, e-mail me now at evangreer@gmail.com and hopefully we can come!

thanks for your support.

-evan g

Hey yall. Me and Mark performed recently in Frederick, MD and they filmed a bit of it. It's available here. Songs include "My Country", "Bored", "Talkin' Mean Machine" and "The Dandelions/Eucalyptus Hybrid Song (or something)". Check it out.

Hey all. Anything I sell today, Veteran's Day, will benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War. I suggest buying "The Violence of War" if you haven't. Or just donate to them directly anytime by going to www.ivaw.org. Better yet, email every soldier and veteran you know and tell them about IVAW.

Michael Franti, Tom Morello, Boots Riley, and others are also donating all of their sales today to IVAW. So if you feel like participating there too, go help em' out more by checking out the new Street Sweeper album, or Tom's new "Fabled City".

Also, read IVAW's letter in-protest to Obama, handed to him yesterday at Fort Hood by a war-resister in the barracks. And read Matthis Chrioux's veteran's day statement.

This Winter, I'll be touring the southeast with Gepetta, a queer fabulist puppet performance artists based in Philly. We'll be performing a unique blend of radical folk music, puppetry, and performance art, and offering interactive workshops on Queer and Trans Liberation, Confronting Gentrification, Climate Justice, Community Organizing, and more! WE NEED YOUR HELP! Contact: evangreer@gmail.com if you have any ideas with us or can help with booking at your school or in your town.

Hey y'all. I just finished uploading Patchwork and Threadbare, the album that's taken 2 years too long to birth!

hey tucson friends, just FYI our show has been moved from the Dry River Infoshop to the Carousel Project, and will now start at 9pm. 299 S. Park Ave, Tucson. Spread the word! see you there!

Audio Here. I was interviewed recently on Against the Grain, a radio program on KPFA radio in Berkeley. The interview was around my article Are We Addicted to Rioting, and discusses anarchist organizing and U.S. social movements, mass-protests, militant protest, and more. Check it out!

Two AMAZING Afghan activist/organizers are touring the U.S. ths and next month. Right now Zoya, from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan is doing a speaking tour. Next month, Malalai Joya, Afghan Parliament member and radical activist, is touring the U.S. speaking. PLEASE see these women speak if you are near an event. A full calendar of their tours is lcoated here.

I uploaded the first public track from my new album, Manifest Democracy. The track is called Placing The Blame, and is available for download. I'll post more soon.

Please consider giving this article I just published a read. Share it. It's a G20/Pittsburgh protest inspired article. It's got a lot in it that I think Riot-Folk listeners should take some notes on... It's been a long time coming. Also, below the article is a response from Crimethinc, which I have posted. They have posted my article as well... to promote healthy dialogue and conversation. Also please read the string on infoshop.org and indybay.org, there's some really in-depth conversation emerging from this article.

A friend filmed this in Boulder a few weeks ago, I did a benefit for Students for Peace and Justice out there. It's me singing a song from my new unreleased CD. The song is called Roulette Wheel. Watch the video here.

Also, I found this video of me speaking at the City From Below conference in Baltimore. The topic is the living wage campaign at the baseball stadium, I'm speaking about being an effective ally and struggling with affected people to achieve changes.

I started uploading the collected writings of me and Mark Gunnery's zine Even If Your Voice Shakes. Even If is an occassionally-published booklet of mostly original articles, essays and interviews on the topics of music, politics, the politics of music, and political issues dealt with in the "music world". Dig it. Much more still to come, this is just a few writings from issues 1-3.

Hey everyone!
Evan here. So I'm so so excited to be touring this Fall with Albany's radical hip-hop trio, BROADCAST LIVE! We'll be going all over the place, so get in touch if you want us to come to your town!

For all you northeast folks, we have two big shows before we leave for the big tour:

THIS FRIDAY in BOSTON
6pm @ Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Ave, South End
With: AfroDZak All Starz and Adelaide Windsome

THIS SATURDAY in BROOKLYN
Benefit for the Indypendent Newspaper DANCE PARTY
9pm @ Starr Street Loft
207 Starr Street, Bushwick
With: REBEL DIAZ!

More info, directions, etc, on my shows page (which has been fixed and now displays properly!) Learn more about the tour here: www.broadcastive.org/epk

Iraqi labor leaders have teamed up with Iraq Veterans Against the War and US Labor Against the War and are touring East Coast cities right now! GO HERE and catch an event. You will not regret it.

Some friends of Riot Folk from Actor Slash Model just released RIOT ACTS: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance, a documentary film about transgender musicians. Riot Acts will be premiering Sunday September 6th @ Glasslands 289 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 at 7pm.
 

An article I wrote, Many Different Enemies - Afghan Women Fight for Their Country, was published today on CommonDreams. Dig it.

I am hard at work with 8 other folks opening up a community space in Bemidji.  We named it the Root Cellar Community Space and we are hoping to have it open by late September.  The outdoor space is already up and running. The community garden is amazing!!  Folks working on that project are getting ready to break new ground for more plots for next year.  I am excited to have the indoor space and lending library finally open and to finish the renovation stage!!!

As always, we are coming up with a shortfall of money, which has been a bit stressful as my partner and I are taking on the financial burden until we open and can have events and fundraisers at the space. Mainly the place needs roofing repair before winter, so I am planning to head out for a few mini-tours to raise some funds for it.  If anyone wants to set up a fundraiser for our project, or joint fundraisers for awesome projects in your areas that would be sweet. Also- if anyone has contacts at colleges who may want to set up a show at their school, send em my way.  I am looking to raise around $3,000 for the roof and another $2,000 for other repairs including a new chimney.

love from minnesota!

Hey everyone!
So excited that the site is back online. Just wanted to let you know that I posted the dates for my upcoming tour with BROADCAST LIVE, who are an amazing radical live hip hop band from Albany. We're calling it STEEL STRINGS & BREAK BEATS and we'll be looping a good part this so-called country Mid-October thru November.

We'll be rocking some awesome shows and also offering workshops at colleges, high schools, and community centers.

We really need your HELP booking and promoting these shows, so please get in touch if you can book us, help hand out flyers, or if your group wants to come table or make announcements at our events!  E-mail me: evangreer@gmail.com if you can help! Thanks so much for your ongoing support.

-Evan G

woohoo, the new riot-folk site is back up, and i just re-uploaded all the tracks for my new CD, "NEVER SURRENDER." check it out if you haven't already. 15 brand new recordings featuring a full band of amazing friends including Anne Feeney, Emma's Revolution, members of Broadcast Live, Taina Asili, and more!!!

Please support independent music if you can by ordering a copy, or donating online for the music that you download! Thanks so much!

-Evan G