Big Ears Presents Marc Ribot: Songs of Resistance (ft. Shahzad Ismaily) Sept. 10

With his 2018 album Songs of Resistance (ANTI-),  Ribot set out to assemble a set of songs that spoke to this political moment with appropriate ambition, passion, and fury. The eleven songs on the record feature a wide range of guest vocalists, including Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Meshell Ndegeocello, Justin Vivian Bond, Fay Victor, Sam Amidon, and more.

As a duo, Songs of Resistance use radical rearrangements of some of the material from Ribot’s 2018 release as a jumping-off point, while also incorporating new material, improvisation, and…whatever else reaps urgency.

The Songs of Resistance duo are in it for the long haul…not presenting “protest songs” per se, but rather approaching the history of resistance songs in a way that resists the clichéd dysfunction of our present and performs the freedom we demand from the future.

Tickets go on-sale this Friday, June 28.

More information here.