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David Rovics Performs in Madison Sept. 4 & Midwest Tour
PROTEST SINGER DAVID ROVICS PLAYS IN MADISON SEPTEMBER 4
Singer-songwriter David Rovics will perform on Thursday, September 4, 2025 at Muso, 2040 Winnebago Street, in Madison Wisconsin from 7:00 to 9:00 PM. David Rovics will perform
with singing partner Kamala Emanuel, as “Ministry of Culture,” and deliver an intimate concert full of original songs about life on Earth.
David Rovics has a large body of songs about unions, social justice, poverty, war, Gaza and genocide, and rebels throughout history. Two songs he wrote about Wisconsin are “We Will
Win, Song for Wisconsin” about the 2011 Wisconsin uprising:
Another song is “In Wisconsin in 1854: Song for Joshua Glover”:
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidrovics/p/new-song-in-wisconsin-in-1854-
song?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
As a guitar-slinging singer/songwriter, David Rovics is also a writer and podcaster based in Portland, Oregon. Since the 1990’s, David has been touring regularly, playing on stages large
and small, at protests and festivals, social centers and folk clubs. He also has recorded two albums of children’s music. In addition to his musical involvement with the anti-capitalist,
labor, environmental and antiwar movements internationally, David has been writing songs and singing at protests related to the Israeli occupation of Palestine since 2000. His recent memoir is in audio book format: My Life as a Protest Singer. His new album is “From Auschwitz to Gaza.” More information is at his website: https://www.davidrovics.com/
Fans of David’s music include folk great Pete Seeger, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Amy Goodman of “Democracy Now,” and Steve Wozniak.
For the Madison show, buy tickets at the door for $20 (no one turned away for lack of funds). But supporters are encouraged to purchase advance tickets at Eventbrite.com listing under
“Ministry of Culture”
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ministry-of-culture-live-at-the-muso-tickets-
1557505885029?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
https://musomadison.com/home/the-ministry-of-culture-live-at-muso-david-rovics-kamala-
emanuel/
David Rovics will also perform in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois; and Milwaukee, Viroqua, Manitowoc, and Woodruff, Wisconsin during this Midwest Tour, dates are listed here:
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