THE "OCCUPY AND BEYOND" TOUR: WITH RYAN HARVEY (RIOT-FOLK)
The "Occupy And Beyond" Tour, featuring the music of Ryan Harvey
of U.S.-based anarchist music collective Riot-Folk, will head
from Amsterdam to Athens this summer before heading into north
Africa for a few stops before ending in Spain and Portugal.
Since mid-2011, Ryan has performed over 100 shows in 15
countries, including over 3 months of performances at and around
"Occupy" movement encampments in the United States. His songs and
stories, themed around the global upheaval catalyzed by the Arab
Spring and other mass protests across the world (including the
Indignados demonstrations in Spain and the Occupy Wall Street
movement in the U.S.) are meant to educate, instigate, and
inspire.
"Ryan has been writing and performing hard-hitting political
folk songs for over ten years. A part of the Riot-Folk
Collective, his music is aimed to support those working for
positive change and to educate people about issues of peace and
social & economic justice."
The tour will also host literature and information from
movements from various countries, and intends to listen and learn
from people in the various countries that it visits, to return
those stories to both the United States and other countries the
tour passes through.
VIDEOS OF RYAN
Spreading Spirit (live at Occupy Wall
Street):http://youtu.be/VW63yXXuEu4[1]
Today And Tomorrow: vimeo.com/32971433 [2]
Can't Turn Back (live at Occupy Wall
Street):http://youtu.be/_jOhebGM-KA [3]
MORE INFO
Ryan Harvey: www.ryanharveymusic.com [4]
Riot-Folk Collective: www.riotfolk.org [5]