Concert: emma's revolution February 6, 2010

UPCOMING CONCERT FEATURING EMMA’S REVOLUTION 

WASHINGTON, DC – "Smart, funny, informative -- like Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart -- with guitars." Acoustic music with the energy and strength of its convictions filled with hauntingly beautiful harmonies and engaging, intelligent lyrics from award-winning activist songwriters. 

The concert featuring emma's revolution will take place on Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 7:30pm at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie, 7180 New Perry Highway, Erie, PA 16509. Tickets are $12 suggested donation or pay what you can. For information or advance tickets call, 814-864-9300.

emma’s revolution is also currently touring in support of their new CD collaborative with Holly Near, “We Came To Sing!” Tender and daring a cappella vocal arrangements of some of Holly Near's most requested songs are paired with some of emma's revolution’s most popular songs and some new tracks that perfectly fit the three women's voices!

ABOUT EMMA'S REVOLUTION/PAT HUMPHRIES & SANDY O:

"Bold, profound, moving, hilarious and transformative," emma's revolution is the duo of award-winning, activist musicians, Pat Humphries & Sandy O, whose songs become traditions. "Peace, Salaam, Shalom" is sung around the world and has been called the "anthem of the anti-war movement. Their song, "If I Give Your Name" won Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and their music has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" and Pacifica's "Democracy Now!" 

PETE SEEGER on “roots, rock & revolution”: “This record is part of the worldwide revolution which will save this planet…these songs you’ll find yourself singing for the rest of your life.”

In the spirit of Emma Goldman's famous attribution, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution," emma's revolution brings their uprising of truth, hope and a dash of healthy irreverence to concerts and peace, justice, labor, environmental, LGBTQ and women's rights events across the US and abroad. emma’s revolution has traveled around the world from Canada, Chile, Korea, Scotland, England, Israel/Palestine, Nicaragua and Cuba and throughout the US (40 states to be exact) spreading their message of peace and justice. As a duo, they’ve performed at hundreds of peace and justice events over the last eight years and over a 30 year period, Pat’s numbers reach into the thousands. 

emma’s revolution has performed by invitation at the First Inaugural Peace Ball 2009, Sing out the Vote Ohio 2008, World Culture Open in Seoul Korea, and the Scottish Parliament's Festival of Politics, School of America's Watch Annual Vigils, the first ever International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women, Unitarian Universalist General Assembly 2009, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival as well as UU churches, coffeehouses, and universities/colleges across the country. Their CD “roots, rock & revolution” has been called “inspiring, gutsy & rockin’!” 

WORT-FM, MADISON, WI: “Sandy and Pat have a real knack for identifying our many struggles while showing us their connections and the ways we can work together to overcome them.” 

THE DAILY HERALD, EVERETT, WA: “Emma's Revolution stands out among those voices that deliver a nudge to our conscience and our sense of who we could be.”

emma’s revolution holds the unofficial record for largest audience: 500,000 in Washington DC in a rally featuring the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rep. Maxine Waters, Jane Fonda, Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon.

Visit their website at http://www.emmasrevolution.com

Official Website: http://www.emmasrevolution.com