Rebecca Riots
www.rebeccariots.com - email rebecca@rebeccariots.com - phone (415) 377-8588

Some say Rebecca Riots represent the “Berkeley” in us all. Maybe that’s part of the reason they are loved by a wide spectrum of audiences across the United States and beyond.

"A band with a conscience that heals minds with its social and political commentary"
- San Francisco Chronicle

“The trio is far and away one of the Bay Area's most impressive bands. Rebecca Riots should be a household name.”
- East Bay Express, California

“Beyond some gorgeous harmonies, there is a profound honesty and a very deep caring in their music.”
- Dugg Simpson, Artistic Director, Vancouver Folk Festival

"Powerful radical folk trio. Their material and dynamic delivery stopped a large crowd of people dead in their tracks at the Seattle Folklife Festival."
- Seattle Folklore Society, Washington

"They blend three distinctive voices into some amazing harmonies. All there are songwriters whose catchy, thoughtful, up-tempo songs reflect a concern with the problems of living and loving in today's modern and somewhat confused world"
- Dirty Linen

Members:
Lisa Zeiler - vocals, guitar, mandolin
Eve Decker - vocals, guitar
Andrea Prichett - vocals, harmonica

Discography:
Just as Sure (2004)
Rough Cuts (2004) by Andrea Pritchett
Gardener (April 2000)
Live at the Freight & Salvage (1999)
Some Folks (1998)
Rebecca Riots (1995)

Rebecca Riots is a female “radical folk” trio founded in 1993 by its members, Andrea Prichett, Lisa Zeiler, and Eve Decker. From 1993-2001 they released four CDs, were signed to Appleseed Recordings, and toured the United States several times. They played the Vancouver Folk Festival, Bumbershoot, the Salina Folk Festival, and regularly sell out multiple shows in Seattle, Portland, and the Freight and Salvage in their home town of Berkeley, California. They have shared stages with Peter Yarrow, Utah Phillips, Laura Love, Street Sounds, Rhiannon, Ulali, Cheryl Wheeler, Sonia of Disappear Fear, Gwen Avery, Alix Dobkin, Alice Stewart, and many other balladeers for social change. Rebecca Riots has done concerts and benefits at folk venues and colleges across the country, supporting causes ranging from Earth First! and other environmental movements to anti-racist work and organizations supporting marginalized people such as homeless, children, and battered women. So they are intensely dedicated to justice, but they are fun and easy going too.

From 2002-2006 Rebecca Riots stopped touring, playing one or two shows a year in Berkeley. During that time Lisa had a baby and produced albums for other singer-songwriters, Andrea became a public school teacher and visited Palestine, and Eve did long meditation retreats and released a solo CD based on Buddhist teachings.

Now they are back; touring the country and officially releasing their fifth CD, Just As Sure.

Musically Rebecca Riots is upbeat, energized folk music. They do three part harmonies, guitar, mandolin and harmonica. On stage, the three women are charismatic, funny, and inspiring. Songs and between-song banter touch on a range of issues, including combating homophobia; gay-straight alliance; police accountability; healing through interfaith spiritual practice (the three musicians are Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist); caring for the country’s homeless; prisoner’s rights; positive body image for women; building with straw bale; gratitude toward nature; facing death and loss; anti-apartheid work; Palestinian rights; love and support of children and teens; and good old celebratory love songs.

Rebecca Riots is touring the Pacific Northwest in November 2007 and the midwest and east coast in spring 2008.