Garlicado
Garlicado is a side project of Riot folk! collectives' Evan Greer.
All … Read Full Bio ↴Garlicado is a side project of Riot folk! collectives' Evan Greer.
All Riot Folk! music is available to download for free at www.riotfolk.org
Evans description of himself on the website:
" I am a touring radical songwriter, organizer, and popular educator. in addition to playing upbeat and political acoustic music, i've recently started facilitating a series of interactive workshops - Connecting the Dots: Social & Environmental Justice Workshops. 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 highschools, at conferences, colleges, and youth centers, but I am open to all ideas! Get in touch: evan@riotfolk.org if you'd like to bring this to your school.
i got my first guitar (an electric) when i was about 14 or 15 but never really learned to play it. i was in middle school and was trying to keep up with the other kids listening to whatever was popular. (alanis morisette still rocks, for the record.) when i got a little older, i stole the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" from my dad, and then it was on. I got really into classic rock, and 60s culure. Simon & Garfunkle, Jefferson Airplane, and Neil Young lead me to Phil Ochs and other protest-folk artists, and my parents gave me an acoustic for my 16th birthday. i wrote my first song shortly after 9-11, and recorded my first "demo" with Jake Cliche at the Cambridge School of Weston in 2003.
as i got more and more into politics, my friends and i became more involved with the radical movements in boston, and started doing a lot more sustained organizing. my music started to reflect that change in my politics, and i eventually got into punk-rock, folk-punk, hip-hop and all that, which shows up a lot in my songs.
I sing from my own experiences and those of my friends. i collect stories that i hear, and try to make them into music. my goal as a musician is to build communities, not scenes, and to use music as an effective tool for spreading social movements. i try to remind each of us fighting for a better world that we are not alone in our struggle, and that that our seemingly separate struggles are connected. that we have to work together to maintain some semblence of a future in this crazy mixed up world. often i get really scared when i think about the future, but it's all of you out there who keep me sane and give me hope.
what else? i'm vegan and queer, i really like cooking for lots of people and riding my bike, and i'm learning the piano and the drums. "
All … Read Full Bio ↴Garlicado is a side project of Riot folk! collectives' Evan Greer.
All Riot Folk! music is available to download for free at www.riotfolk.org
Evans description of himself on the website:
" I am a touring radical songwriter, organizer, and popular educator. in addition to playing upbeat and political acoustic music, i've recently started facilitating a series of interactive workshops - Connecting the Dots: Social & Environmental Justice Workshops. 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 highschools, at conferences, colleges, and youth centers, but I am open to all ideas! Get in touch: evan@riotfolk.org if you'd like to bring this to your school.
i got my first guitar (an electric) when i was about 14 or 15 but never really learned to play it. i was in middle school and was trying to keep up with the other kids listening to whatever was popular. (alanis morisette still rocks, for the record.) when i got a little older, i stole the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" from my dad, and then it was on. I got really into classic rock, and 60s culure. Simon & Garfunkle, Jefferson Airplane, and Neil Young lead me to Phil Ochs and other protest-folk artists, and my parents gave me an acoustic for my 16th birthday. i wrote my first song shortly after 9-11, and recorded my first "demo" with Jake Cliche at the Cambridge School of Weston in 2003.
as i got more and more into politics, my friends and i became more involved with the radical movements in boston, and started doing a lot more sustained organizing. my music started to reflect that change in my politics, and i eventually got into punk-rock, folk-punk, hip-hop and all that, which shows up a lot in my songs.
I sing from my own experiences and those of my friends. i collect stories that i hear, and try to make them into music. my goal as a musician is to build communities, not scenes, and to use music as an effective tool for spreading social movements. i try to remind each of us fighting for a better world that we are not alone in our struggle, and that that our seemingly separate struggles are connected. that we have to work together to maintain some semblence of a future in this crazy mixed up world. often i get really scared when i think about the future, but it's all of you out there who keep me sane and give me hope.
what else? i'm vegan and queer, i really like cooking for lots of people and riding my bike, and i'm learning the piano and the drums. "
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