back to the roots tour stop in pittsburgh jan 20th     -please share this event on your wall, invite your friends, and spread the word about this awesome show!- sliding scale 5-15$ no one will be turned away, no one :)Come Assemble on friday night , Jan 20st at 9pm for a radical night of dance-able liberation music featuring touring revolutionary duo BACK TO THE ROOTS (Evan Greer of Riot-Folk! and spiritchild of Mental Notes)also featuring Pittsburgh's very own smoki fantastichttp://smokifantastic.com/BACK TO THE ROOTS is an explosive and dynamic musical collaboration combining the best elements of underground hip hop, folk, and punk rock and touching on issues from queer liberation to prison justice to gentrification to police brutality to the #Occupy movement.The duo features South Bronx hip hop freedom singer spiritchild as the emcee and beat-maker and internationally touring radical queer singer/songwriter Evan Greer switching off on a veritable arsenal of acoustic instruments. Together they are an unstoppable force of revolutionary crowd rocking, danceable, riot inciting energy.The artists of BACK TO THE ROOTS tours worldwide and together have shared stages and collaborated in the studio with artists as musically diverse as Immortal Technique, Pete Seeger, The Coup, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Billy Bragg, Dead Prez, Chumbawamba, Gloria Estefan, Lloyd Banks of G-Unit, State Radio, Against Me!, Mr. Lif, and the Last Poets.Check out the single, "Back to the Roots" at http://backtotheroots.bandcamp.com/More music from spiritchild: www.xspiritmental.comMore music from Evan Greer: www.evangreer.org"Evan Greer continues to write inspiring folk music in the tradition of the great protest singers ... and (s)he's a heck of a guitar player. I expect songs like !Ya Basta! and Picketline Song will be heard at the barricades for years to come."--Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine