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Title: David Rovics in Concert!
START DATE: 3/2/2003
START TIME: 5:30 PM
Duration: -2 Hours
Location: Fais Do Do Clum
Location Details:
Fais Do Do Club
Event Topic: music
Event Type:
Contact Name: David Rovics
Contact Email: davidrovics@aol.com
Contact Phone: 617-872-5124
DESCRIPTION:
Political Agitator David Rovics Takes the Stage

Singer/songwriter and political agitator, 35-year old David Rovics will perform his own hot brand of social consciousness raising entertainment at Fais Do Do Club on Saturday, March 8th at 5:30pm.

Rovics, who has been toting his guitar for a living since he first became a street performer in San Francisco in the late 1980’s, follows in the great tradition of Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs, and Pete Seeger. Like Guthrie, Ochs and Seeger, Rovics takes the state of the world and weaves its politics, events, and people into a colorful tapestry of song that moves listeners from tears to laughter to action. No mistake though, Rovics moves well beyond the sixties protest sound. He is here to make a statement for today and tomorrow.

The music of David Rovics is a picturer world drawn from the heart of a traveler who works not only for a better tomorrow, but also for a better today. Rovics takes the messages in his music seriously whether those songs are telling the stories of the environment, the labor movement, or US led terrorism on the world. Now, others are taking the messages in his music seriously as well. Rovics has played at rallies and protests around the world from IMF/World Bank protests in Washington, DC and Prague, Bush’s visit to Berlin, the April 20th anti-war rally in DC, and February 15th in New York City. He’s also a regular performer at the School of the Americas protests in Columbus, Georgia. His music is being heard. Last summer Rovics was turned away at the border when he tried to go to the G8 protests in Calgary because he was found on a list of political agitators.

While government officials have begun to show concern about Rovics’ rallying lyrics others are inspired by his tunes. Reverend Roy Bourgeois, founder of SOA Watch, a group dedicated to closing the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC) also known as the School of the Americas says, \"David Rovics\' music gives life and hope in the struggle for peace and justice. He is an inspiration.\"

Medea Benjamin, founding director of Global Exchange, has grand hopes for the influence of Rovics’ songs on the efforts to bring peace to the world. \"If the key to building a mass movement is to make it \'irresistible,\' David is opening the flood gates.\"

Amy Goodman of the nationally-broadcast “Democracy Now” radio program, says \"David Rovics is the musical version of Democracy Now!\"





































































































































































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