Emma’s Revolution Concert

Songs of Hope & Resistance Benefit Concert for the Movement Voter
Project

The activist singer/songwriting duo Emma's Revolution will return to All Souls
Church at 29 South Street, West Brattleboro, on Saturday October 17 at 7 p.m. for
Songs of Hope and Resistance, a benefit concert for the Movement Voter Project.
On this nationwide No Kings Day of Action to "help voters make a plan,” come and
get recharged, inspired and energized in community, justice and song.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door or by donation. Tickets may be
purchased at Everyone’s Books on Elliot Street in Brattleboro or online at
tinyurl.com/OctBrattleboro .

Known for fearless, truth-telling lyrics and melodies you can’t resist singing,
Emma’s Revolution is the award-winning activist duo of Pat Humphries and
Sandy O. Performances feature the duo’s signature soaring harmonies and lush
acoustic instruments, in songs that span folk to jazz and funk to rock. September
marked Emma’s Revolution 25th year of writing songs about critical issues
happening in the world, lending their voices to the movements those issues inspire
and delivering moving, uplifting performances. The duo’s songs have been praised
by Pete Seeger and covered by Holly Near, featured on NPR’s All Things
Considered and Pacifica’s Democracy Now!, and sung around the world.

The Movement Voter Project funds local organizing and movement-building to
shift culture, win power, and shape policy. MVP describes itself as a “mutual fund”
for political giving: “We raise money from donors, then channel it toward the most
impactful organizations and power-building work around the country,” according
to the organization.

“In the lead up to this year’s crucial Midterm Elections, our rights, norms and
democracy are on the line,” the duo says, “and all of our voices are needed to
create the country and the world we want to live in.”
The October 17 No Kings Day will focus nationwide on registering voters and
getting voters to vote early.

Known for fearless, truth-telling lyrics and melodies you can’t resist
singing, Emma's Revolution is the award-winning activist duo of Pat Humphries &
Sandy O. Performances feature the duo’s signature soaring harmonies and lush
acoustic instruments, in songs that span folk to jazz and funk to rock. September
marks Emma’s Revolution 25th year of writing songs about critical issues
happening in the world, lending their voices to the movements those issues inspire
and delivering moving, uplifting performances. The duo’s songs have been praised
by Pete Seeger and covered by Holly Near, featured on NPR’s All Things
Considered and Pacifica’s Democracy Now!, and sung around the world.

This year is the 25th anniversary of September 11th and of the duo’s first song
written together, “Peace Salaam Shalom”. Sandy and Pat were moving from NYC
to the Washington DC area when the Trade Towers were hit. When the only
response from the government and the corporate media was war and retribution,
they wrote the song, with the words for peace in English, Arabic and Hebrew and
sang it at an impromptu peace march in DC that week. Less than a month later,
they led the song at the first peace rally in NYC after 9/11, where thousands of the
more than 10,000 people there sang with them for the three hour march, all the
way from Union Square to Times Square. Since then, the song has been sung
around the world and called the anthem of the anti-war movement.

Emma’s Revolution carries on in the spirit of their mentor, Pete Seeger. “Activist
musicians inherit a legacy of the indivisibility of truth-telling and soul-stirring,”
Pat explains, “We sing stories steeped in the rich legacy of freedom, the triumph of
overcoming, the grief of injustice, weaving stories, melodies and harmonies in a
rich alchemy of vintage genres and emerging sounds to create an experience full of
heart, hope and motivation . . . especially in a time like this.”