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Fwd: [David Rovics] Upcoming tours, new songs and videos on-line...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Corrina)
Fri Jun 13 23:04:57 2003
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 20:03:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Corrina <brownian_emotion@yahoo.com>
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Don't forget, David Rovics is playing this Sunday... I
can't go, unfortunately. :-(
-ccc
--- DRovics@aol.com wrote:
> From: DRovics@aol.com
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:04:37 EDT
> Subject: [David Rovics] Upcoming tours, new songs
> and videos on-line...
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
>
> Hey folks in Massachusetts,
>
> First of all, I hope to see some of you at 7:30 pm
> at Club Passim in Harvard
> Square this Sunday. It'll be a benefit concert for
> United for Peace and
> Justice, with Ethan Miller opening, and Robbie
> Leppzer filming! Please spread the
> word!
>
> Also, I'm going to be in the northeast in mid-August
> if anybody has any
> ideas. Otherwise...
>
> I wanted to let everybody know that I've figured out
> a rough schedule for my
> tour around the eastern US and Canada for this fall.
> There's still some
> potential flexibility in the schedule, but I can
> definitely commit to dates at this
> point. You'll find the schedule at the end of this
> email, and on
> www.davidrovics.com under "gigs." Also in that
> schedule you'll find the outlines of
> other plans, such as gigs coming up this summer,
> plans for a west coast tour in
> the winter, etc.
>
> These tours only happen because of the participation
> of people like you, so
> if you want to organize an event in your area, I
> hope I'll hear from you soon!
> If you want to read some thoughts on organizing
> events, you can check out the
> "booking" section of my website.
>
> The fall tour will begin with the release of my next
> CD, which I'm going to
> be recording at the end of this month in a Boston
> studio with Sean Staples and
> other stellar musicians. I'm very excited about
> this project! It's going to
> be released on Ever Reviled Records -
> www.everreviledrecords.com. If you know
> of a radio station or a magazine or some other such
> place where you think
> they should have a copy of the CD, please send an
> email to
> info@everreviledrecords.com and tell them about it!
>
> In the "listen to songs" section of my website,
> you'll find four new rough
> mixes of songs to listen to - some of these, along
> with a number of the other
> new songs in that section, will ultimately find
> their way onto the new CD, in a
> more produced form. Also in the "listen to songs"
> section you'll find a
> number of new links to other audio and video. My
> favorite thing I found recently
> is the piece that was done on the Sorry State of the
> Union event in DC last
> winter, with me and various other performers, and
> lots of help from the Guerilla
> News Network (GNN).
>
> For those of you not able to be at my gig this
> Sunday at Club Passim in
> Cambridge, Massachusetts, you can go to
> www.clubpassim.org to find out how to
> listen to a live stream of the concert on the web.
>
> OK, so here's the basic itinerary for the fall tour,
> for all those interested
> in being involved with it in any capacity. If
> you're really ambitious,
> consider also thinking further ahead about
> organizing a date on my March tour of
> North America with Attila the Stockbroker -
> www.attilathestockbroker.com.
>
> TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR FALL TOUR AROUND EASTERN U.S.
> AND CANADA:
>
> September 4-11: dates in the south and southeast
> (such as east Texas,
> Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
> Tennessee, the Carolinas,
> Virginia)
>
> September 13-19: dates in the northeast (such as DC,
> Maryland, New Jersey,
> New York, and throughout New England)
>
> September 20-25: dates in eastern Canada (such as
> Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
> and possibly points east such as New Brunswick, PEI,
> etc.)
>
> September 26-October 4: dates in the midwest (such
> as Michigan, Illinois,
> Wisconsin, possibly Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri,
> Kansas, Arkansas)
>
> Hope to see you on the road and in the street!
>
> --David
>
> [To be removed from my email list just reply to this
> message and tell me to
> unsubscribe you.]
>
> David Rovics
> www.davidrovics.com
> rovics@greens.org
> (617) 747-4460 (voicemail)
> (617) 872-5124 (cell phone)
> PO Box 995
> Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 (USA)
>
> “No revolutionary movement is complete without its
> poetical expression. If
> such a movement has caught hold of the imagination
> of the masses, they will seek
> a vent in song for the aspirations, the fears and
> hopes, the loves and
> hatreds engendered by the struggle. Until the
> movement is marked by the joyous,
> defiant singing of revolutionary songs, it lacks one
> of the most distinct marks of
> a popular revolutionary movement; it is a dogma of
> the few, and not the faith
> of the multitude.”
>
> James Connolly, Introduction to “Songs of
> Freedom,” 1907
>
> To read Ted Glick's essay where I got this quote, go
> to <A HREF="www.ippn.org">www.ippn.org</A> then
> look for the link to Ted's Future Hope columns and
> the column titled The Power of
> Culture.
>
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