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Join the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus on Saturday, February 15 for their February Coffeehouse, monthly gatherings featuring performances by folk musicians. Before the featured performance, audience members are invited to join the chorus in song. February’s featured musical acts are Emma’s Revoluion and Lisa Gutkin.
About Emma’s Revolution
Emma’s Revolution is the dynamic, award-winning activist duo of Pat Humphries & Sandy O, whose songs have been sung for the Dalai Lama, praised by Pete Seeger, and covered by Holly Near. With beautiful harmonies and genre-defying eclecticism, Emma’s Revolution delivers the energy and strength of their convictions, in an uprising of truth and hope for these tumultuous times.
Emma’s Revolution has shared the stage with Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Rev Jesse Jackson, Amy Goodman, Indigo Girls, Joan Baez, Rev William Barber and Bill McKibben and has performed at concerts, justice events and mass demonstrations across the country, including the #FamiliesBelongTogether Day of Action in San Francisco, Women’s March Oakland and the Poor People’s Campaign National Demonstration in Washington DC. Their songs cover issues from reproductive justice to refugees and Black Lives Matter to their sustaining power of love. “Sing People Sing” is the duo’s loving and moving tribute to Pete Seeger that captures Pete’s unique ability to empower an audience with harmony and hope. A dear friend and mentor to her, Pat was at Pete’s bedside when he passed, “singing his songs back to him in gratitude for all the times he had left home to sing to us”. The duo’s songs span styles from folk to jazz and funk to rock.
About Lisa Gutkin
Lisa Gutkin is a Grammy Award-winning fiddler, singer, actor, and composer and is best known as a member of the acclaimed Klezmatics. She wrote the musical score, performed in, and was musical director in the two-time Tony award-winner Broadway show, Indecent.
Lisa has had a storied career that reflects the eclectic nature of her life, passion, and creativity. A cameo performance in Sex and the City, a seat in Sting’s Broadway band for The Last Ship, a CD of original songs produced by John Lissauer, and scores for two of Pearl Gluck’s films have taken her a long way from her beginnings as a back-up musician to the Fast Folk songwriters’ collective.
Praised for her “hauntingly emotional” vocals by the L.A. Times, she has co-authored songs with Anne Sexton, Maggie Dubris, and Woody Guthrie. “Gonna Get Through This World”, co-written with Woody Guthrie, was described by Pete Seeger as “a piece of genius”.
In her ventures as soloist and band leader, Lisa might swing seamlessly from Klezmer to the blues, or between traditional Irish and Appalachian sounds. She might even put the violin down altogether, pick up a tenor guitar, and sing one of her own universally resonant songs. Wherever she goes, Lisa, a MacDowell, and Norton Stevens Fellow, has an uncanny way of taking the audience with her.
TICKETS:
- Reserved Tickets: $30 – Reserve tickets in advance using the ticket form. Reserved tickets will be set aside for you, and paid for at the door by check, cash, or credit card. Reservations may be made until 6:00pm the Friday prior to the performance date.
- Tickets at the Door: $35 – Purchase tickets at the door by check, cash, or credit card.
About the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus
Carrying on the vision of our founder, Pete Seeger, since 1984
The Walk about Clearwater Chorus is dedicated to promoting environmental awareness and social action through song and education and is a volunteer-run New York State not-for-profit organization. Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is a chartered member club of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, and our activities support the work of our parent organization.
The Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is more than a singing group. Beyond performing at various venues, including our own Coffeehouse, rallies, and marches, Walkabout brings folk music to the younger generations through school programs. First and foremost, the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is a group of activists – using their voices to address the issues of today, uniting song with purpose.