Listen to Anne Evan Roy

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 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 Anne has traveled to the frontlines in 42 states, as well as Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Ireland and Sweden.

Her anthem “Have You Been to Jail for Justice?” is being performed by activists everywhere, including Peter, Paul and Mary. Dubbed the “minister of culture” to the movements for economic and social justice and human rights, Anne is “the best labor singer in North America” according to Utah Phillips. 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 critcally acclaimed recordings are widely available.

Evan Greer is a radical queer singer/songwriter, community organizer and popular educator based in Boston. He writes and performs high energy acoustic songs that inspire hope, build community, and incite resistance! 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, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, and rapper Immortal Technique.

Roy Zimmerman has been writing and performing satirical songs with a decidedly Lefty slant for twenty years. (“We used to have a name for right wing satire,” he says. “We called it ‘cruelty.’”). He 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.”

More information

On Anne Feeney: http://www.annefeeney.com/
On Evan Greer: http://www.riotfolk.org/?m=evangreer
On Roy Zimmerman: http://www.royzimmerman.com/