Evan Greer - guitars, vocals, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, kazoo, piano, and percussion, with lots of amazing friends playing a variety of instruments. New album, NEVER SURRENDER features: pat humphries and sandy o - vocals, ben lucal - drums, jory leanza-carey - vocals, bass, organ, e. guitar, drums, rachel arnold - cello, anne feeney - vocals, sohrob kazerounian - violin, seantel chamberlain - vocals, taina asili - vocals, mimi lavalley - vocals, dave scandurra - percussion, afro DZ ak - trumpet, erin ryan - vocals, rhythm fish, aric sebastion - upright bass
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Struggles for Liberation and Justice, Hope, Love, Isolation, Climate Change, Self-Destruction, Connections, Community. Political music of all genres, the other kids in Riot-Folk!, cheesy 90s alternative rock, hip-hop, poetry, bluegrass, punk, irish rebel songs, etc. Also: all my friends' bands, and various artists including but not limited to: Phil Ochs, Welfare Poets, Chumbawamba, Ani Difranco, The Coup, Mischief Brew, Saul Williams, Paul Simon, Fifteen, Alixa & Naima, Kimya Dawson, Crass, Neil Young, Bikini Kill, The Weakerthans, Defiance Ohio, 1905, Bright Eyes, Rebel Diaz, John Prine, Rilo Kiley, Foundation Movement, Operation Ivy, Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Alix Olson, Rancid, The Who, Anne Feeney, The Pogues, Against Me!, Dead Prez, Propaghandi, Evil Robot Us', Dan Bern, Pamela Means, Steve Earle, Rachel Jacobs, The Clash, Pete Seeger, Johnny Cash, The Clash, and everything else i've ever had stuck in my head while i'm trying to write a song.
my brand new CD, "NEVER SURRENDER" is now available! 15 new recordings with a full and amazing band of friends, featuring ANNE FEENEY, EMMA'S REVOLUTION, TAINA ASILI, members of BROADCAST LIVE, MIMI LAVALLEY, AFRODZAK, and more.
I AM HAVING TROUBLE WITH MY "BUY NOW" LINK, so right now the only way to order the CD is by E-Mailing me: evangreer@gmail.com
Tell me how many CDs you want, and what donation you'd like to make ($7 - 20 sliding scale). You can pay by check, cash, or credit card through Google-Checkout.
Again, e-mail me: evangreer@gmail.com to order the new CD!!
OR you can get it online at CD Baby, but it's $14 and they can't do sliding scale.
"Evan Greer continues to write inspiring folk music in the tradition of the great protest singers. 'Never Surrender' contains an urgency and earnestness that is uniquely his...and he's a heck of a guitar player. I suspect that songs like 'Ya Basta!' and 'Picketline Song' will be heard at the barricades for years to come." --Tom Morello, of Rage Against the Machine
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hello! i'm evan greer. i am a touring radical songwriter, organizer, and educator based in boston, ma. i work hard to use my upbeat acoustic music as a tool to support grassroots struggles for justice and liberation.
i've recently started facilitating a series of interactive workshops on social and environmental justice topics like Climate Change, Gender Liberation, and Community Organizing. these are really engaging and fun and weave together music, discussion, visuals, and popular education games to help make the connections between different forms of oppression and exploitation as well as struggles and avenues towards liberation. I am most excited about offering these workshops in high schools, at conferences, colleges, and youth centers, but I am open to all ideas! Get in touch if you'd like to bring this to your school or community!
below is a more formal "bio" for booking purposes. be sure to check out everyone else in the Riot-Folk! Collective. They rock. We are a collective of radical songwriters and musicians hellbent on MAKING FOLK A THREAT AGAIN.
I do all my own booking, so if you want to set up a show, just e-mail me: evangreer@gmail.com
Evan Greer is a young, radical, queer, singer/songwriter, community organizer, and popular educator based in Boston, MA. At 24 years old, he has toured across the United States, Canada, and Europe, and shared stages with well-known performers like Billy Bragg, Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine), Boots Riley of The Coup, Immortal Technique, Pamela Means, Pete Seeger, State Radio, Mr Lif, and The Mammals.
Evan travels internationally as a performer and facilitates popular education workshops for all ages that connect struggles for social and environmental justice. His goal is to directly support grassroots movements with music and education, and also to generate funds for local struggles in his hometown of Boston. All of the money that doesn't get put into food and rent is getting pumped into justice projects in the city. He tours frequently by greyhound bus, car, foot, subway train, airplane, and most recently bicycle, having returned from 1600 pedal-powered miles around Florida during the Respect Yer Mama Bicycle Tour.
He is a founding member of the Riot-Folk! Collective, an innovative group of radical musicians who work together to use their music as a tool for social change. Evan has spent time as a relief worker in New Orleans, a street medic at the G8 protests in Scotland, and has been a youth and community organizer in the Boston area since high school. His deep involvement in movements for social and ecological justice gives him a unique perspective on how to inspire other young people to take concrete action towards a more just and sustainable world.
Evan’s high-energy acoustic songs have been featured on NPR, recorded by well-known artists, and used in high school and college courses. His original blend of catchy melodies, punk rock energy, and shear musical charisma make him instantly at home on a stage or in a classroom, Evan's lyrics, stories, and analysis offer a challenging and empowering alternative to traditional discussions around social an environmental justice.
REVIEWS:
"Evan Greer is an eloquent and energetic writer. He reminds me of Phil Ochs."
--Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
"Current folk is sometimes stereotyped as sappy, weak, and boring. Despite this contemporary betrayal, the Riot Folk collective champions the genre’s radical roots ... Behind all the exclamation points and proclamations of anarchy, lies a genuine sense of revolution. The Riot Folk Collective may just re-establish folk music as a revolutionary staple." --VenusZine
"Evan feeds off the energy of the crowd, putting some of the punk back into the sound with a raw and passionate performance. Being in the crowd at an acoustic show where the kids genuinely care about the message and dance and sing along with fists in the air in a crowded basement or open performance space, is a whole different type of folk show from the typical coffee house style. It's refreshingly alive and a striking contrast to sitting down and listening to someone singing about their feelings."--Urban Folk, NYC
"Phenomenal activist folk!"--Pacifica Radio KPFA-FM
"Evan's vocals are clear and definitive as he weaves a story around his concise guitar playing!"--WERU-FM Radio, ME
"The only reason it's probably taken Evan Greer so long to make a full-length album, Never Surrender (on Riot-Folk! Records [sic]) is because he's never just a musician. He's always surrounded by activists working on one issue or another ... you'll see him at anti-war meetings and community potlucks organized to stop housing forclosures. Yes, he sings while he's there. But Greer is never just the entertainment; it's impossible to keep him on the stage. His songwriting is never separate from his role as facilitator, organizer, activist, and storyteller. It seems Greer has called on his entire community of activist friends to produce Never Surrender. With songs inspired by local protests and loved ones, accompanied by veteran and fellow Boston musicians, Never Surrender is by far not a solo album. Complete with recycled cardboard case, Greer's 15-song CD is truly a radical group effort ... Like a coming of age story, the tumultuous emotions of self-awareness in a fucked up world is at the center ... But Greer proves more than a writer of catchy political pop--he makes the music functional ... Greer's best songwriting isn't passive--it's calling for and directing action, and it's demanding us to do it together."--The Noise, Boston (cover story, June 2009.)
hey dude! It really was great watching you play on holloween. Im digging the disc alot and i truely hope i get a chance to see you again. Take care and good luck with everything
ryan!
Demand Public Hearings and Oversight of the Grand Junction PoliceThe Police here in Grand Junction have for a long time been able to do whatever they want with little or no oversight by the community. Skateboarders, Latinos, poor people, and political activists have long known that the police have grudges they settle with force or through the justice system.Recent arrests and firings of two GJPD officers for beating a woman and raping a woman, Courtney Crooks and Glenn Coyne, respectively, are just the tip of the iceberg. Former Police Chief Bill Gardner resigned this fall, because of another case that was successfully kept off the pages of the newspapers. It involved nine GJPD officers beating a woman in her own house, and then charging her with felony assault on an officer, she threatened to sue the PD and an agreement was reached which dropped the lawsuit and the chargers. The victim is still too traumatized by the incident, she just wants to put it behind her, but we as citizens need to know what happened in that incident.The GJPD is notoriously secretive and non-transparent. Multiple open records requests have been denied, or simply ignored. The process for people to make complaints about the department is not open or accessible. No hotline, No form, No advocate outside of the Police Department. To make a complaint you have to go to the station and into a locked corridor and into a locked room and make a co
Hope "No Surrender" song gets played more on Democracy Now! show during 2009-2010 historical period. Song reminds me somewhat of Krisin Lems' "We Will Never Give Up" folk song of early 1970s.
thanks for addn us.. think we are playn a show with you in Flagstaff at the Infoshop.. also where in Durango are yall playn.. we are from the 4-corners area.. would be great to play with yall also in Durango..
