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David Rovics

Folk & acoustic band from New York, NY · formed 1967

Singer/songwriter, writer, on Substack and Patreon. I also record as Ai Tsuno.

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David Rovics photo
Photo from the public record
Shows on record
60+
Rooms played
60
Cities
55
Releases
31
Last show
Sep 19, 2026First Metropolitan United Church

About

David Rovics is a band from New York, NY, formed in 1967, tagged anarchist, anti-capitalist, antifascist by its sources. Shows on record run from 2025 to 2026, across 60 rooms in 55 cities.

The summary is assembled from the record fields and shows on this page; each fact listed names its source. See Sources & corrections for what each source supplied.

Shows

60+ on record · event platform:bandsintown city, event platform:songkick metro, Songkick, facebook
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Shows per year

  1. 202525 shows
  2. 202635 shows
Show history
DateVenue
Sep 19, 2026First Metropolitan United Church · Port Angeles
Sep 19, 2026United Commons · VictoriaHeadliner
Jul 18, 2026Japanese American Historical Plaza · PortlandHeadliner
Jul 11, 2026Notional Space · VancouverSupportwith Gram Partisans
Jul 9, 2026The Orca Inn · Alert BayHeadliner
Jul 7, 2026Sointula Recreation Association · SointulaHeadliner
Jul 4, 2026The Abbey Studio · CumberlandHeadliner
Jun 25, 2026Broad View United Church · VictoriaHeadliner
May 21, 2026Islington Folk Club · LondonHeadliner
May 18, 2026McNeill's Sports Bar · GlasgowHeadliner
May 16, 2026Toft House · MiddlesbroughHeadliner
May 11, 2026Brighton Electric · BrightonHeadlinerwith Robb Johnson
May 10, 2026The Pig · HastingsHeadliner
May 9, 202662 Fieldgate street, London, E1 1ES · LondonHeadliner
May 9, 2026London Action Resource Center · LondonHeadliner
May 8, 2026Southsea Cinema & Arts Centre · SouthseaHeadliner
May 5, 2026Joe Hill Museum · GävleHeadliner
May 3, 2026Folk i Storgata · OsloHeadliner
May 2, 2026Marx-Engels Huset · GothenburgHeadliner
May 1, 20261000Fryd · AalborgHeadliner
Apr 29, 2026Kostalden · AarhusHeadliner
Apr 28, 2026Folkets Hus · CopenhagenHeadliner
Apr 25, 2026Munksøgård 61b · RoskildeHeadliner
Apr 23, 2026Jockel Biergarten · BerlinHeadliner
Apr 21, 2026Café Buch-oase · KasselHeadliner
Apr 19, 2026Heideruh · Buchholz in der NordheideHeadliner
Feb 6, 2026Workmen's Circle Cultural Center · Los Angeles (LA)Headliner
Feb 1, 2026El Rio Mobile Home Park Community Room · Santa CruzHeadliner
Jan 31, 2026San Francisco Living Wage Coalition · San FranciscoHeadlinerwith Kamala Emanuel, Ministry of Culture
Jan 30, 2026Mattie Groves Brewery · SacramentoHeadliner
Jan 26, 2026Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU) · BerkeleyHeadliner
Jan 25, 2026Sebastopol Community Cultural Center · SebastopolHeadlinerwith Kamala Emanuel, Ministry of Culture, Chet Gardiner, +4
Jan 23, 2026Redwood Playhouse · GarbervilleHeadlinerwith Kamala Emanuel, Ministry of Culture, Andy Caffrey, +2
Jan 17, 2026Mission High School · San FranciscoHeadliner
Jan 3, 2026Oldfield Oasis · BisbeeHeadliner
Dec 20, 2025WRFG 89.3 FM · AtlantaHeadliner
Dec 13, 2025Houston, Texas · HoustonHeadliner
Dec 13, 2025Houston · HoustonHeadliner
Dec 12, 2025Pan-african Connection Bookstore Art Gallery and Resource Center · DallasHeadliner
Dec 11, 2025the vortex · AustinHeadliner
Oct 28, 2025Cherry Hill Co-Housing Community · AmherstHeadlinerwith Jay Mankita
Oct 26, 2025Chai Qahwah Lounge · SeldenHeadliner
Oct 24, 2025Bethel · BethelHeadliner
Oct 22, 2025Flynn Pianos Workshop and Gallery · Great BarringtonHeadliner
Oct 21, 2025Young Ethel's · BrooklynHeadliner
Oct 19, 2025Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting · New York (NYC)Headliner
Oct 18, 2025Community Church of Boston · BostonHeadliner
Oct 17, 2025Chapel in the Pines · EasthamHeadliner
Oct 16, 2025Centered · New HavenHeadliner
Oct 14, 2025Mountain View Studio · WoodstockHeadliner
Oct 10, 2025The Downstairs · IthacaHeadliner
Oct 9, 2025The First Unitarian Church of New Bedford · New BedfordHeadliner
Sep 11, 2025Whirled Pies · EugeneHeadliner
Sep 7, 2025Viroqua · ViroquaHeadliner
Sep 6, 2025Washington Park Bandshell · ManitowocHeadliner
Sep 5, 2025Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Fellowship · WoodruffHeadliner
Sep 4, 2025Muso Madison · MadisonHeadliner
Aug 31, 2025Nabala Cafe · ChicagoHeadlinerwith Scott Free
Aug 30, 2025Maze Books · RockfordHeadliner
Jul 25, 2025Witta · WittaHeadliner

Showing the latest 60 shows; the record holds more.

Where they play

60 rooms in 55 cities

Rooms played most

Cities played

  • London3 shows
  • Houston2 shows
  • San Francisco2 shows
  • Victoria2 shows
  • Aalborg1 show

and 50 other cities

Live history

397 shows on record
Shows counted
397
First on record
Feb 2004
Latest on record
Sep 2026

Shows per year

  1. 20043
  2. 20141
  3. 20152
  4. 20163
  5. 20171
  6. 201864
  7. 201941
  8. 20206
  9. 202127
  10. 202241
  11. 202362
  12. 202467
  13. 202546
  14. 202633

Top rooms

  • Community Church of Boston, Boston · 5
  • Uffa, Trondheim · 4
  • Cafè Mellemfolk, Aarhus · 4
  • Islington Folk Club, London · 3
  • Joe Hill Museum, Gävle · 3

Top cities

  • London · 21
  • Copenhagen · 16
  • Aarhus · 12
  • Glasgow · 10
  • Malmö · 8

Often on the bill with: Kristian Svensson, Anne Feeney, Pol Mac Adaim, Alder Street, Andy Caffrey, Davey Dynamite, Ed Haynes, Emily Totten

Counted from the shows BandSlate holds; missing shows are not counted.

Releases

31 releases, 1996–2025

  • Deport The Billionaires

    2025

  • Historic Times

    2019

  • Ballad of a Dung Beetle

    2015 · Album

  • The Other Side

    2015 · Album

  • All the News That’s Fit to Sing

    2014 · Album

  • When I’m Elected President… / Wayfaring Stranger

    2014 · Album

  • If I Had A Hammer

    2014

  • Falasteen Habibti

    2014

  • Everything Can Change

    2013 · Album

  • If I Had a Hammer

    2013 · Album

  • Into a Prism

    2013 · Album

  • Spies Are Reading My Blog

    2013 · Album

  • Meanwhile in Afghanistan

    2012 · Album

  • The Big Red Sessions

    2011 · Album

  • Big Red Sessions

    2011

  • Ballad Of A Dung Beetle

    2011

  • Ten New Songs

    2010 · Album

  • Ten Thousand Miles Away

    2009 · Album

  • Waiting for the Fall: A Retrospective

    2009 · Album

  • Har Har Har

    2008 · Album

  • The Commons

    2007

  • Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

    2006 · Album

  • For the Moment

    2005 · Album

  • Waiting for the Fall

    2005 · Album

  • Songs For Mahmud

    2004 · Album

  • Beyond the Mall

    2003 · Album

  • Return

    2003 · Album

  • Who Would Jesus Bomb

    2003 · Album

  • Hang a Flag in the Window

    2002 · Album

  • We Just Want the World

    1998 · Album

  • Make It So

    1996 · Album

Discography

63 releases, 1994–2025
  • 2025Deport The BillionairesRelease
  • 2025From Auschwitz To GazaAlbum
  • 2025From the AshesAlbum
  • 2025In Our DreamsAlbum

    [no label]

  • 2025Make The Planet Earth Great AgainAlbum
  • 2025Songs for Zahid (2025)Album
  • 2024Bearing WitnessAlbum
  • 2024I Heard a RumorAlbum
  • 2024JabaliyaAlbum
  • 2024Ministry of Culture: Live at Ecosocialism 2024Album
  • 2024Ministry of Culture: Live on the Big IslandAlbum
  • 2024Notes From A HolocaustAlbum
Show 51 more releases
  • 2023Live in BoulderLive
  • 2022Free Em AllSingle

    [no label]

  • 2022Take the Power BackEP

    [no label]

  • 2021It's Been A YearAlbum
  • 2021May DayAlbum
  • 2021Rebel SongsAlbum
  • 2020Notes from a Failed StateAlbum
  • 2020Say Their NamesAlbum
  • 2020Viral SolidarityAlbum

    [no label]

  • 2019Historic TimesAlbum
  • 2019Songs for TodayAlbum
  • 2019Strangers & FriendsAlbum
  • 2018Live at De LoftLive

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2018Live in HoustonAlbum
  • 2017Ballad of a WobblyAlbum
  • 2017Live in RostrevorLive

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2017Punk BaroqueAlbum

    [no label] · [none]

  • 20161939Live

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2016Letter to My LandlordLive

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2015Ballad of a Dung BeetleAlbum

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2015The Other SideAlbum

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2014All the News That’s Fit to SingAlbum

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2014Falasteen HabibtiCompilation

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2014When I’m Elected President… / Wayfaring StrangerAlbum

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2013Everything Can ChangeAlbum

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2013If I Had a HammerAlbum

    [no label]

  • 2013Into a PrismAlbum

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2013Spies Are Reading My BlogAlbum

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2012Meanwhile in AfghanistanAlbum

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2011The Big Red SessionsAlbum

    [no label] · [none]

  • 2010Ten New SongsAlbum
  • 2009Ten Thousand Miles AwayAlbum
  • 2009Waiting for the Fall: A RetrospectiveAlbum

    [no label]

  • 2008Har Har HarAlbum
  • 2007The CommonsLive

    Irregular Records · IRR067

  • 2006Halliburton Boardroom MassacreAlbum

    High Times Records

  • 2005For the MomentAlbum
  • 2005Waiting for the FallAlbum
  • 2004Songs For MahmudAlbum
  • 2003Behind the BarricadesCompilation

    AK Press

  • 2003Beyond the MallAlbum
  • 2003ReturnAlbum
  • 2003Who Would Jesus BombAlbum
  • 2002Hang a Flag in the WindowAlbum
  • 2001Living in These TimesLive

    [no label]

  • 2000Live at Club PassimLive
  • 1998Pay Day at Coal CreekCompilation
  • 1998We Just Want the WorldAlbum
  • 1996Make It SoAlbum
  • 1994Shoulder To ShoulderAlbum
  • n.d.TroubadorAlbum

Compiled from MusicBrainz and Discogs. Releases not listed there are not shown.

Lineup

No current lineup on record.

Airplay

  • KEXP airplay: 29 plays, 2004-02-22–2018-03-24 — KEXP
  • Played on KEXP show 'Mind Over Matters' (Mike McCormick) — KEXP

Photos, art and posters

David Rovics — Photo · candid
Photo · candid — Wikidata
David Rovics — First Metropolitan United Church, 2026-09-19
Poster · First Metropolitan United Church, 2026-09-19 — event platform:bandsintown city
David Rovics — United Commons, 2026-09-19
Poster · United Commons, 2026-09-19 — event platform:songkick metro
David Rovics — San Francisco Living Wage Coalition, 2026-01-31
Poster · San Francisco Living Wage Coalition, 2026-01-31 — Songkick

Sources & corrections

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What each source supplied
SourceUsed for
MusicBrainzArtist facts
David Rovics on Last.fmArtist facts
David Rovics on DiscogsArtist facts
David Rovics on GeniusArtist facts
WikidataArtist facts, Photos
KEXPAirplay
event platform:bandsintown cityShow history, Show posters
event platform:songkick metroShow history, Show posters
SongkickShow history, Show posters
facebookShow history
DiscogsCredited on the record; no item on this page cites it
GeniusCredited on the record; no item on this page cites it
Last.fmCredited on the record; no item on this page cites it

This is a partial record of publicly documented activity. Missing shows, releases or members do not mean there are none. It does not confirm availability for booking.

From Wikipedia

These facts are from the English Wikipedia article David Rovics. They are shown on their own and are not merged into the record above.

Origin
New York City, U.S.
Years active
1992–present
Genres
Indie, folk, folk punk, protest music

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