TINY FISTS TOUR (Bonfire Madigan & Evan Greer)

“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.” - Bobby Sands

Two families full of radical queer riot-folk fury are traveling from the Bay Area to Tijuana in April 2011, and we'd love to come to your town!


BONFIRE MADIGAN
legendary cello wielding folk-punk mama with riot-grrrl roots
www.bonfiremadigan.com

EVAN GREER & FRIENDS
genderqueer riot-folk-parent leading catchy singalongs for liberation
www.riotfolk.org/evan

Two dynamic activist musicians are touring the west coast in April with an arsenal of stringed instruments and a whole bunch of reusable diapers.  We are currently booking performances and interactive workshops for this tour and would love to come to your school or your community!  Please check out the short bios below and check out our respective websites for more information about our music, our activism, and our liberatory message.

In addition to high energy musical performances, the tour also offers a host of interactive workshops on a wide variety of social justice, feminism, mental health, environmental, queer and trans, and community organizing topics. For workshop info, visit: www.evangreer.org/workshops.html


FOR BOOKING, contact:
Evan Greer
978-852-6457 (cell)
evangreer@gmail.com


ABOUT BONFIRE MADIGAN:
“Bonfire Madigan is a little string outfit led by the dynamic cellist Madigan Shive ... she stirs up a ruckus.”         — The New Yorker

"Check in with her. She’ll leave you spellbound." — LA Weekly

Bonfire Madigan Shive is a visionary cellist, vocalist, composer, performing artist, and international touring musician who has collaborated with artists including Jolie Holland, Acadamy Award nominee Elliot Smith, Joan Jeanrenaud from Kronos Quartet, and David Coulter of The Pogues. Madigan has toured extensively, composed/performed original scores for major theater productions most recently with Carey Perloff (Artistic Director, American Conservatory Theater), and shared stages with legends like Kimya Dawson, Neko Case, Cat Power, Gossip, Fugazi, Bright Eyes and Modest Mouse. She’s a contributing author to the anthology Live through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction (Seven Stories Press), sharing company with bell hooks, Nan Goldin, Kate Bornstein, and other great artists. In addition, Madigan is a founding collective member of The Icarus Project, a grassroots support and media network led by people living with experiences commonly labeled "mental illness." LISTEN and for further info: www.bonfiremadigan.com

“Madigan Shive is the vocal and lyrical heart of this avant-garde chamber pop outfit, whose members occasionally rotate. Equal parts feminist polemics, civil disobedience, and raw poetic power, it's not for the faint of heart or weak of mind. Oh, and she plays a mean cello, too.”

— The Village Voice

ABOUT EVAN GREER:

“Evan Greer is an eloquent and energetic writer. (S)he reminds me of Phil Ochs.”

--Dr. Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

Evan Greer is a genderqueer singer/songwriter, parent, and community organizer based in Boston, U$A. (S)he writes and performs high-energy acoustic songs that inspire hope, build community, and incite resistance! At 25 years old, Evan tours internationally as a musician and facilitates interactive workshops to support movements for justice and liberation. Armed with a repertoire of fiercely radical songs that vary in style from pop-punk poetry to foot-stompin’ bluegrass singalongs, Evan has shared stages with artists as musically diverse as Pete Seeger, Immortal Technique, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Anne Feeney, Holly Near, Boots Riley of The Coup, Pamela Means, Oi Polloi, State Radio, The Mammals, and Chumbawamba. LISTEN and learn more: www.riotfolk.org/evan

"Evan Greer continues to write inspiring folk music in the tradition of the great protest singers ... and (s)he's a heck of a guitar player. I suspect that songs like 'Ya Basta!' and 'Picketline Song' will be heard at the barricades for years to come."

--Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine