Mother Anarchy Album Release Show
Schedule
Sun, 26 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Seward Cafe | Minneapolis, MN
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Join Emmett Doyle, opening act DC Leonhardt, and musical collaborators from the Wooden Shoe Ramblers, The Last Words, and the Stepping Razors as we debut Mother Anarchy- a 15 track album of revolutionary, anarchist, labor, and antifascist songs adapted from six different languages. We will be bringing many of these classic songs of resistance to English for the first time. Our offerings will include our title track, originally written by Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno of the Black Army. We will perform songs originally written in Yiddish about the fate of women in the textile sweatshops of the Industrial Revolution, and about women partisans fighting Nazi terror in the forests of Lithuania. French gives us a commemoration of the Paris Commune in "The Cherries in Bloom", and a new, amalgamated and improved English version of The Internationale. Catalonia gives us the world-famous protest anthem L'estaca, or The Stake. From Sweden we draw a fierce indictment from the voices of workers killed on the job against the corporate machine greased in our blood. From Italy, we have a defiant song of the guerrilla fighter and decades-long prisoner Belgrado Pedrini, a murder ballad about the killing of Giuseppe Pinelli and the beginning of the Years of Lead, and an unabashedly utopian vision of the liberated future.
A handful of non translation tracks will include Bread and Roses with a more Celtic twist, Peggy Seeger's antifascist warning Song of Choice, and three originals: A tribute to Chinese worker and poet Xu Lizhi, a memory of the funeral of Pyotr Kropotkin, and a madcap, romping celebration of boss-napping as a hardline negotiating tactic.
DC Leonhardt will open the night with his raw, American roots stylings and contemporary radical lyricism.
CDs will be available for purchase at the event, and free zines with the lyrics and chords will be yours for the taking. All the new songs and the adaptations Emmett wrote are Creative Commons, share alike, with attribution. We encourage our movement and our musical community to take up these songs in English and in their languages of origin and carry on the living tradition through struggle and singing. i
$10 cover for entry, no one turned away for lack of funds.
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