Who We Are and Where We've Been
The Raging Grannies welcome new members. If you like our message and our
style, please come.
You do not have to be a professional singer.
To attend a meeting, please
e-mail us for information:
RagingGrannies63@aol.com
We sing wherever our voices can be heard. We often sing at rallies, protests, demonstrations, and the like, but we are also invited to sing by other groups and individuals.
To invite us to sing for your organization, group, or rally, please e-mail us: RagingGrannies63@aol.com
Some places we've sung
On June 22, 2008, we sang at The Clearwater Festival - The Great Hudson River Revival, along with the New York Metro gaggle of the Raging Grannies and Raging Grannies from Western Massachusetts, as we did last year. We were also joined by a visiting Raging Granny from Tennessee. We huddled under a canopy because rain was pouring down for most of the day. Nevertheless, our audience sang along.
All four gaggles are represented in the smaller photo [above, right] since the Granny with the orange collar belongs to both New York Metro and Westchester.
We
sang at a Sustainability Fair to celebrate Earth Day on April 20, 2008.
Peter Callaway, the Co-chair of the Green Sanctuary
Committee
of The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of
Briarcliff, Croton and Ossining,
thanked us, writing:
"On behalf of the UU Fellowship of Briarcliff, Croton &
Ossining I would
like to thank you and The Raging Grannies
for providing such strong support
for our Sustainability Fair.
Your singing was the highlight of the
afternoon, it was
entertaining, provocative, sparkling and first class, and
it set the tone for a successful afternoon;
I just wish we had been able to
draw a bigger crowd
for you. It is a great mission that you are leading
and
the way you deliver your message is both innovative
and effective... you say
the tough things but make it easier to listen to by your delivery. Bravo!!!"
The
Fellowship Newsletter said:
In the sanctuary, the Raging Grannies, led by Sunny Audin [Armer], were
probably the highlight
of the day,
with entertaining, provocative and high quality singing.
This event also made the local newspaper, The Gazette.
For that article, click here.
We sang at the South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry (May 2007) at an exhibit of photos taken by one of our Grannies, Grace.
We protested Dick Cheney’s visit to West Point in May 2007.
We sang for volunteers who worked for the 2006 Congressional campaign.
For today's version and more about Indian Point, click here.
From a local anti-nuclear activist:
"It may seem silly, but your humorous and entertaining contribution to the meeting probably did more to counterbalance all the paid-for supporters of Indian Point than any of the formal comments. And it was wonderful for the media. Your performance was the only time the entire room was completely hushed."
From another local anti-nuclear activist:
"I will send you the dates of the forthcoming meetings shortly. I hope that the Grannies can come to all of them. It was the best part of the evening."
To get in touch with groups working against Indian Point, go to http://www.ipsecinfo.org and http://www.nukebusters.org/WestchesterNY
For more press coverage of our protests against Indian Point, click here.
We sang for Entergy's flunkies once in 2007 and twice (so far) in 2008. For an update on Indian Point, click here.