Live Concerts

Occasional, bite-sized chunks of anarchist commentary and culture.  Each episode consists of an audio essay followed by a song.  Available wherever you get your podcasts.

This Week with David Rovics

This is a soundboard recording of my set at a No Nato benefit show with Cosmo and others at 10 Feet Tall in Cardiff, Wales from April, 2014.

Live in Cardiff

Live show at Bumzen in the Norrebro district of Copenhagen.  Music actually starts at 2:30.  Recorded with an MP3 recorder from the audience.  Really fun gig -- the audience was singing along with great enthusiasm!

Live in Copenhagen

Live show at Ono club in the center of Bern, Switzerland from May 16, 2014.  Partway in I complain about everything sounding distorted, which it was at the time, but that was all edited out of the recording, which sounds lovely.  (But I wasn't crazy.)

Live in Bern

Here's the concert from my living room I just did, a week before I head to Scandinavia for the CEASEFIRE TOUR of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

Mandolas Not Missiles

This is my half of the last show on the tour of Sweden I did in April, 2015 with Swedish singer/songwriter, Kristian von Svensson.  The tour was in the year of the 100th anniversary of the execution by firing squad of Swedish-born IWW organizer, cartoonist and songwriter, Joel Emanuel Hegland, more popularly known as Joe Hill.  This was the theme of my set throughout the tour, as with Kristian's.

Live in Gothenberg

Senator John McCain is dead.  Speak good of the dead.  Good -- he's dead.

John McCain

No, not Shakespeare -- Hamlet, North Carolina.  September 3rd, 1991.

Remembering Hamlet

AP is reporting several of the children separated from their parents have been sexually abused in captiviity.  Unfortunately, sexually abusing children after separating them from their parents is as American as apple pie.

Child Separations

The CIA-backed military coup in Chile on September 11th, 1973 resulted in thousands killed and tortured over the course of a brutal dictatorship that began that day.  It also gave rise to some impressive acts of solidarity.  In Scotland, workers at the factory that repaired all the engines for the entire Chilean Air Force refused to touch a fascist engine.  For a time, it was revealed recently, the entire Chilean Air Force was grounded as a result.

September 11th, 1973

The Global Financial Crisis began in earnest 10 years ago this week, and the first of the series of global protests that began with a protest in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan on this date in 2011.  I was there.

Remembering Occupy Wall Street

I did a concert from my living room to the internet, via YouTube live stream.  This is the higher-quality audio version I recorded with my SE1 USB mic and laptop, at the same time I was streaming via my iPad.

House Concert on the Web

Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), libertarian socialist, dad, lover of life.

Mandolas Not Missiles

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