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September 19, 2021,
2 pm: The
Gram Partisans played a set outdoors at Vancouver's MacLean Park, opening for The Hot Mammas and The Tumbleweeds.
Much of the set can
be viewed here as part of the 2021
Virtual Accordion Noir Festival. The set was filmed and posted by the
Accordion Noir Festival and can be viewed as tracks 34-42 of their YouTube playlist. |
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July 27, 2021: The
Gram
Partisans recorded Ginger
Goodwin:
Ain't No Way/El Pueblo Unido, to mark the BC
socialist/labour
& antiwar activist on Ginger Goodwin Day. |
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July 5, 2021:
Vancouver's The
Gram Partisans recorded Empty
Pairs of Shoes,
words and music by William Hood. The Gram Partisans are William Hood
(vocals, guitar), Georgina Arntzen (vocals, mandolin), Jack MacDermot
(fiddle), Alan Zisman (accordion). The song was written following the
rediscovery of 215 unmarked graves of indigenous children on the site
of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia,
and the creation of a memorial by Haida artist Tamara Bell. More
information: https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/06/02/Shoes-Activists-Create-Symbol-of-Mourning-Residential-Schools/ |
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May 2, 2021: The
Gram
Partisans
recorded Bill Hood original Anne
Feeney - Union Made, a tribute to
political folk singer Anne
Feeney, who died Feb 3 2021. |
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- Video of the Gram
Partisans
performing These Schools Are Your Schools
at Vancouver's Chief Maquinna Elementary picket line, September 16
2014, the day the tentative settlement was announced. Thanks to Dora
Kwok for filming and posting online. - BC Teachers' Picket Line Songs - Two songs written by Gram Partisan member Bill Hood for the 2014 BC teachers' strike. Recorded by Simon Kendall (Thanks Simon!) All proceeds from these recordings donated to the union strike fund. - Video clips of the Gram Partisans playing on teacher picket lines, June 2014 (including at the VESTA study session at the Orpheum, June 16) and at the June 10 teacher rally. - Video clips of the Gram Partisans at the 2014 VDLC May Day rally: I Still Can Hear Him Now and The Internationale |
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Gram Partisan
founder, vocalist,
and guitar player Bob Rosen died November 22, 2011. Read his obituary
and leave a comment and watch video of his memorial.![]() |
The Gram Partisan's
2011
recording, You Will Not
Stand Alone,
can be listened to online and purchased
as a (on sale for
$10) digital download. To purchase a physical CD ($15 + $2 postage),
email the band. You can also hear the entire CD as a YouTube playlist![]() |