Bev Grant
"Take A Walk In My Shoes"
Role: I play guitar accompanyment and sing background vocals.
On participating in Vagina Festival 2008:
I am a singer/songwriter, Brooklyn Women's Chorus founder and director, member of the trio - Bev Grant & the Dissident Daughters and have been writing about women's issues for the past 40 years. The members of VOW asked me to help them write a song after hearing a song I had written, called Where Women Rule, which is about a women's village in Kenya, called Umoja, founded by an indiginous woman named Rebecca Lolosi, as a safe haven for women escaping abuse. I am honored to be part of this festival.
About Bev Grant:
In 2006, Bev won the Honorary BAXten Arts and Artists in Progress Award. The BAXten award honors "individuals in the arts who have revealed and transformed our creative world by instigating enduring change deepening the definition of their field and paving the way for others." Bev is a veteran social activist, feminist, labor singer/songwriter, "cultural worker" from Park Slope Brooklyn, where she has lived for over 30 years. She is the co-creator of a women's labor history multi-media presentation entitled "We Were There!" and has recorded five albums, including a companion cd and songbook for the show, called "We Were There!", a solo cd entitled "IN TUNE", a 7-song ep with her current group, Bev Grant & the Dissident Daughters, called "CHEEKY WOMAN", and two albums with her former band, "Human Condition". She has appeared on numerous compilation recordings, including the recently released Grammy-nominated Smithsonian/Folkways "Best of Broadside" album. Rolling Stone Magazine calls THE BEST OF BROADSIDE "topical songwriting [as] holy warfare" and "a grand tribute to a stubborn ideal" (David Fricke, Rolling Stone, August 31, 2000). "Virtually every important singer/songwriter of the American folk revival is heard on the collection..." Billboard.
Contact: bevgrant1@aol.com
Website: www.bevgrant.com
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