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A benefit concert for John Woolman Semester and the Peace Center of Nevada County featuring emma's revolution will be held on Sunday.
The Peace Center of Nevada County honors the essential power of people in community. Through open inquiry, education, and nonviolent direct action, we nurture peace, equality, justice and dignity in ourselves, our community and our Earth.
The Woolman Semester is a 16-week program that welcomes high school students from all over the country to join us for a single semester during their junior, senior, or postgraduate ”gap” year. Students are immersed in the studies of peace, social justice, and sustainable living.
emma's revolution is the duo of award-winning, activist musicians, Pat Humphries and Sandy O. With hauntingly beautiful harmonies and powerful acoustic instrumentals that deliver the energy and strength of their convictions, emma's revolution writes songs that become traditions. “Peace, Salaam, Shalom” is sung around the world and has been called the anthem of the anti-war movement. “If I Give Your Name” won Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and the duo's music has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" and Pacifica's "Democracy Now!"
In the spirit of Emma Goldman's famous attribution, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution," emma's revolution brings their uprising of truth, hope and a dash of healthy irreverence to concerts and peace, justice, labor, environmental, LGBTQ and women's rights events across the US and abroad. emma's revolution has traveled around the world from Canada, Chile, Korea, Scotland, England, Israel/Palestine, Nicaragua and Cuba and throughout the US spreading their message of peace and justice. As a duo, they've performed at hundreds of peace and justice events over the last eight years and over a 30 year period, Pat's numbers reach into the thousands.
emma's revolution has performed by invitation at the First Inaugural Peace Ball 2009, Sing out the Vote Ohio 2008, World Culture Open in Seoul Korea, and the Scottish Parliament's Festival of Politics, School of America's Watch Annual Vigils, the first ever International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women, Unitarian Universalist General Assembly 2009, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival as well as UU churches, coffeehouses, and universities/colleges across the country. Their CD “roots, rock & revolution” has been called “inspiring, gutsy & rockin'!”
emma's revolution is also touring in support of their new CD collaborative with Holly Near, “We Came To Sing!” Tender and daring a cappella vocal arrangements of some of Holly Near's most requested songs are paired with some of emma's revolution's most popular songs and some new tracks that perfectly fit the three women's voices!
emma's revolution holds the unofficial record for largest audience: 500,000 in Washington D.C. in a rally featuring the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rep. Maxine Waters, Jane Fonda, Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon.
“The epitome of great contemporary political music.” — Sing Out! Magazine
“A year and a half ago, 100,000 of us gathered at the Seattle football stadium to see the Dalai Lama and 500 of us who rehearsed for several months to sing behind him sang your 'Peace, Salaam, Shalom.' I thought you'd like to know.”— A note handed to Sandy after a concert on Whidbey Island, Wash.
The Peace Center of Nevada County honors the essential power of people in community. Through open inquiry, education, and nonviolent direct action, we nurture peace, equality, justice and dignity in ourselves, our community and our Earth.
The Woolman Semester is a 16-week program that welcomes high school students from all over the country to join us for a single semester during their junior, senior, or postgraduate ”gap” year. Students are immersed in the studies of peace, social justice, and sustainable living.
emma's revolution is the duo of award-winning, activist musicians, Pat Humphries and Sandy O. With hauntingly beautiful harmonies and powerful acoustic instrumentals that deliver the energy and strength of their convictions, emma's revolution writes songs that become traditions. “Peace, Salaam, Shalom” is sung around the world and has been called the anthem of the anti-war movement. “If I Give Your Name” won Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and the duo's music has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" and Pacifica's "Democracy Now!"
In the spirit of Emma Goldman's famous attribution, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution," emma's revolution brings their uprising of truth, hope and a dash of healthy irreverence to concerts and peace, justice, labor, environmental, LGBTQ and women's rights events across the US and abroad. emma's revolution has traveled around the world from Canada, Chile, Korea, Scotland, England, Israel/Palestine, Nicaragua and Cuba and throughout the US spreading their message of peace and justice. As a duo, they've performed at hundreds of peace and justice events over the last eight years and over a 30 year period, Pat's numbers reach into the thousands.
emma's revolution has performed by invitation at the First Inaugural Peace Ball 2009, Sing out the Vote Ohio 2008, World Culture Open in Seoul Korea, and the Scottish Parliament's Festival of Politics, School of America's Watch Annual Vigils, the first ever International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women, Unitarian Universalist General Assembly 2009, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival as well as UU churches, coffeehouses, and universities/colleges across the country. Their CD “roots, rock & revolution” has been called “inspiring, gutsy & rockin'!”
emma's revolution is also touring in support of their new CD collaborative with Holly Near, “We Came To Sing!” Tender and daring a cappella vocal arrangements of some of Holly Near's most requested songs are paired with some of emma's revolution's most popular songs and some new tracks that perfectly fit the three women's voices!
emma's revolution holds the unofficial record for largest audience: 500,000 in Washington D.C. in a rally featuring the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rep. Maxine Waters, Jane Fonda, Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon.
“The epitome of great contemporary political music.” — Sing Out! Magazine
“A year and a half ago, 100,000 of us gathered at the Seattle football stadium to see the Dalai Lama and 500 of us who rehearsed for several months to sing behind him sang your 'Peace, Salaam, Shalom.' I thought you'd like to know.”— A note handed to Sandy after a concert on Whidbey Island, Wash.
