‘Joy as an act of resistance:’ Resistance Revival Chorus to perform at Goshen College May 21
Performing Arts Series: Resistance Revival Chorus
Date and Time: Saturday, May 21, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Goshen College Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall
Tickets: $30, $25 or $20 available online or at the Box Office (boxoffice@goshen.edu, 574.535.7566).
COVID-19 precautions for this performance: Face masks must be worn at all time while indoors regardless of vaccination status
The Resistance Revival Chorus will perform at Goshen College on Saturday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m. for a Performing Arts Series concert in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall.
Tickets are $30, $25 or $20 and are available online or at the Box Office (boxoffice@goshen.edu, 574.535.7566).
The Resistance Revival Chorus (RRC) is a collective of more than 60 womxn (an alternative spelling of the English word “woman”) and nonbinary (gender identites that are neither male nor female) singers who join together to breathe joy and song into the resistance. The RRC works to uplift and center womxn’s voices, address the historic marginalization of womxn in the music industry and call for justice and equity for womxn across racial, ethnic, economic, sexual identity and religious lines.
The collective was founded following the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. As one of the march’s producers, co-founder Ginny Suss took inspiration from a backstage conversation with singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, in which he said: “When the movement is strong, the music is strong.” Taking Belafonte’s words to heart, Suss and six other co-founders went on to form the RRC and establish the group as a voice of protest and resistance.
Today, the RRC is made up of 60+ touring musicians, film and television actors, Broadway performers, solo recording artists, gospel singers, political activists, educators, filmmakers, artists and more, representing a multitude of identities, professions, creative backgrounds and activist causes.
The RRC has performed with singer Kesha at the 2018 Grammys, on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, at SummerStage with Angelique Kidjo, at BabeFest with Ani DiFranco, with Bon Iver and Aaron Dessner from The National and at Carnegie Hall with Phillip Glass, Carly Simon and Patti Smith. The group has curated and performed a show co-created with the Public Theater, held at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park with musicians and actors such as Valerie June and Indya Moore. The RRC has also appeared in two TedX events and has been featured in Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Vogue, The New Yorker and other notable publications.
The RRC aims to be intersectional in their feminism and to reveal that all social justice issues overlap heavily with womxn’s issues; to harness the collective power of womxn to help change the world; to celebrate each other through song; and to embrace poet Toi Dericotte’s idea of “joy as an act of resistance.”