Evan Greer - ProfilesArchive

About Me

hey, i'm evan. i like to write songs and play them for people. i also like garlic, organizing, analyzing and combating oppression, being a healer, building communities (not scenes), thinking about climate change, honesty and open-communication, resistance, empowerment, passion, intensity, cooking spicy food for lots of people, cuddling, punk-rock, labor unions, sustainable collective agriculture, waterfalls, and instruments other than the guitar.below is lots of self-promotional crap for you people who book stuff and want to know who the hell i think i am, or something like that. 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: [email protected]

.. width="425" height="350" ..Evan Greer got his start playing at open mics and political events in Boston MA. As his popularity grew he began to play up and down the East coast. At 22 years old, he has toured across the United States, Canada, and Europe, and shared stages with performers like Billy Bragg, Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine), Chumbawamba, Charlie King, Emma's Revolution, Pamela Means, Oi Polloi, and The Mammals, as well as speakers including Danny Glover, Tim Robbins and Amy Goodman. In fall of 2005 he spent six weeks on the road with renouned labor singer Anne Feeney .

"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

"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

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/28/2004
Band Website: riotfolk.org
Band Members: Evan writes the songs and plays various things with strings, piano, percussion, and harmonica now and then. Also, the other members of Riot-Folk! (adhamh roland, brenna sahatjian, tom frampton, ryan harvey, mark gunnery, kate boverman, ethan miller) sometimes play such things as bass, percussion, singing, yelling, and whatnot. Now and then such friends as Ben Lucal (percussion, bass, and more), Bridget Sprools (upright bass), Rob Korobkin (drummer extrordinaire), Hannah Stampe (fiddle), Sally O'Brien (vocals, banjo, pennywhistle, editing shitty songs), and Sam Potrykus (stand-up bass) join in for a gig or two. Oh yeah, and people singing along, they're the best.
Influences: Your Stories, Oppression -- my role in it, Honesty, Generosity, Traveling, Hope, Love, America, Isolation, Climate Change, Self-Destruction, Connections, Community, Whiskey. 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, Ani Difranco, Mischief Brew, Saul Williams, Fifteen, Victor Jara, Kimya Dawson, Neil Young, Bikini Kill, Mr. Lif, The Weakerthans, Defiance Ohio, 1905, Bright Eyes, John Prine, Rilo Kiley, Foundation Movement, Crass, Gainesville Liberation Orchestra, Operation Ivy, Spoonboy, Shannon Murray, Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Alix Olson, Conflict, The Coup, Rancid, The Who, Anne Feeney, The Pogues, Against Me!, Dead Prez, Propaghandi, Woody Guthrie, Evil Robot Us', Dan Bern, Pamela Means, Steve Earle, Rachel Jacobs, The Clash, Pete Seeger, Emmylou Harris, Caitlin Stephens-North, Johnny Cash, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Chumbawamba, Embryo, Bread & Roses, Billy Bragg, Pink Floyd, Project: CITIZEN, Sharp Teeth, The Cliches, Clara Hendricks, The Clash, Plan-It-X bands, and everything else i've ever had stuck in my head while i'm trying to write a song.
Sounds Like: Riot-Folk!
Record Label: Riot-Folk! Collective
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

too many blogs

yo. i'm not going to keep a music blog here because i've already got one. if you want to find out what's happening in the musical world of evan greer, check out: http://evangreer.blogspot.com pe...
Posted by Evan Greer on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST