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Following last year's sold-out concert at The Freight, Emma’s Revolution returns with another roster of friends, performing powerful songs of justice, joy & resilience.

Known for fearless, truth-telling lyrics and melodies you can’t resist singing, Emma's Revolution is the award-winning activist duo of Pat Humphries & Sandy O, whose songs have been praised by Pete Seeger, covered by Holly Near, featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and Pacifica’s Democracy Now! and sung around the world.

Special guests will perform on Emma’s Revolution’s songs and, this year, Emma’s Revolution will also perform on their guests’ songs. The concert is a fundraiser for the feature documentary being made by award-winning independent filmmaker, Tom Weidlinger, about the duo, their songs and their decades of work on the frontlines of peace and social justice movements.

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Emma’s Revolution & Friends

The Freight

“Joyous,” “grooving,” “bluesy,” “sophisticated,” and “masterful” could all be accurately use to describe bassist and composer Kurt Ribak’s music, but perhaps an assessment is best left to the man himself, who calls his rollicking mix of bebop sophistication and body-moving grooves “Charles Mingus meets The Meters.” Ribak performs a cross-section of his favorite jazz and country tunes, and music that bridges the two.

A Berkeley native, Ribak parlayed his formative musical experiences as a cellist and member of the San Francisco Boys Chorus into a passion for the bass, studying at Cal Berkeley and Boston’s Berklee College of Music before returning to the East Bay and establishing a well-deserved reputation as one of the most respected creative forces on the scene. At the top of his creative game, Ribak suffered a devastating injury in a 2012 car accident that shattered his left arm and led to a dozen surgeries, leaving the bassist’s musical future in serious doubt.

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David Rokeach

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Past events

Apr 26, 2025

Emma’s Revolution & Friends · The Freight

Jan 28, 2024

Kurt Ribak: Jazz & Country · San Francisco Jazz

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