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David Rovics grew up in a family of classical musicians in Wilton, Connecticut, and became a fan of populist regimes early on. By the early 90′s he was a full-time busker in the Boston subways and by the mid-90′s he was traveling the world as a professional flat-picking rabble-rouser. These days David lives with his family in Portland, Oregon and tours regularly on four continents, playing for audiences large and small at cafes, pubs, universities, churches, union halls and protest rallies. He has shared the stage with a veritable of who’s who of the left in two dozen countries, and has had his music featured on Democracy Now!, BBC, Al-Jazeera and other networks. His essays are published regularly on CounterPunch elsewhere, and the 200+ songs he makes available for free on the web have been downloaded more than a million times. Most importantly, he’s really good. He will make you laugh, he will make you cry, he will make the revolution irresistible.

Note from Haithem at Palestine Online Store: I first met David when he agreed to perform at a fundraiser in Seattle for the International Solidarity Movement. He graciously accepted my invitation to Palestine, where I organized a series of free concerts for him in Jenin, Ramallah, Birzeit, Nablus, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and Haifa. An-Najah University honored him with a special recognition and award from the university’s President. But even before he got this taste of Palestine, his songs have always reflected a full understanding of whats going on and deep empathy for what it feels like to be a Palestinian.. his song “I Wanna Go Home” really hit the nail on the head!

Track Listings
Return: After The Revolution | Palestine | Occupation | The Death of Rachel Corrie | So Many Years Ago | Resistance | Reichstag Fire | Promised Land | Times Gone By | Strike A Blow Against The Empire | Song for Ana Belen Montes | Hiroshima | The Key | Return
Songs for Mahmoud: Miami | Operation Iraqi Liberation | Face of Victory | Song the Songbird Sings | They’re Building A Wall | Who Would Jesus Bomb? | Evening News | Here at the End of the World | Used To Be A City | More Gardens Song | Butcher for Hire | Trafalgar Square | Song for the SOA #2 | All the Ghosts That Walk This Earth | Korea | I Wanna Go Home | Moron | War Is Over | Battle of Blair Mountain | Oppositional Defiant Disorder | What If You Knew
Waiting for the Fall: Song for Hugh Thompson | Song for My Broken Heart | The Dying Firefighter | Jenin | Times Gone By | The Death of Rachel Corrie | They’re Building A Wall | Saint Patrick Battalion | What If You Knew | The More Gardens Song | Everything Looks the Same | Burn It Down | Like I Think About You | Waiting For the Fall | Falluja | Four Blank Slates | When Johnny Came Marching Home | Crashing Down | New Orleans | Black Flag Flying | I’m A Better Anarchist Than You | Behind the Barricades | Life Is Beautiful
Ten Thousand Miles Away: Travelodge | In the Name of God | Song for the Eureka Stockade | Brad | Floating Down the River | Now That You’re Gone | Berkshire Hills | Atif and Sebastian | Pirates of Somalia | Lebanon (2006) | John Brown | Luis Posada | Guanajuato | Free | East Tennessee | Land of the Midnight Sun | I Know a Man | Santiago | Song for Ginger Goodwin | Song for Al Grierson | World of Broken Dream

Related Items
David Rovics’ official website
Video of “I Wanna Go Home”
Video of “Palestine”
Video of “Jenin”
Video of “Midnight on the Mavi Marmara”

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