Music Between the Stacks: Emmett Doyle

Join the East Side Freedom Library for our inaugural edition of Music Between the Stacks with Emmett Doyle!
THE MUSIC OF SOLIDARITY!
(Held in conjunction with From the Ground Up: The Challenges and Opportunities of Bargaining a First Contract)

Friday, March 24 at 8:30 p.m. at the East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul

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Music Between the Stacks is brought to you by the East Side Freedom Library bringing you local music artists by organizing and curating intimate concerts in the library space. Through MBS, we are building a welcoming community space where community members can enjoy live music and support local artists. We are building solidarity in song and gathering. Our first artists is folk singer Emmett Doyle!

Emmett Doyle is a union carpenter, former river deckhand, and lifelong music maker from Minnesota. Drawing deeply from Celtic and American folk roots–with an ear towards global musical connections– he carries on the “long memory” of working class movements both in generations-old ballads, and in new songs springing from today’s struggles. Emmett‘s work, which is informed both as a participant in and in dialogue with organizing campaigns and resistance movements, was central to the Wooden Shoe Ramblers, the Twin Cities’ premier anarcho-syndicalist folk ensemble. His debut solo album, Rust Belt Ballads, is a meditation both personal and political on the rural farmland and industrial cities he comes from as a worker and artist, and seeks continuity with and a rebirth of working class pride and power in places that have been left behind or written off. Whether melancholy, defiant, sardonic, or– ultimately in the end– hopeful, Emmett‘s music is always honest.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
(Please wear your mask. Masks available on site. Thanks!)