We all know that the right to vote is one of the most essential components of our democracy. But that right is being taken from some people and squandered by others. We need to stand up for everyone's right to vote and fight for that. If you fall in the lucky category of having privilege, the absolute best thing to do with your privilege is to use it to stand up for the rights of less privileged people. And for the people who are squandering their chance to vote, for the people who don't think voting matters because they think it's all rigged: why not hedge your bets? What if you're wrong? What if some elections get messed with and some don't? What if an election can be rigged when it's a super close race, but it's way harder when it's a huge margin? Hedge your bets... go put in a vote just in case, and because it's the right thing to do. Please.
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from Represented,
released September 1, 2020
The Get Right Band is a psychedelic indie rock power trio from Asheville, NC. They are a band focused on following their muses to honest self-expression, to whatever excites them and pushes them into unexplored territory. The Get Right Band proudly carries the torch for a long line of genre-bending power trios from Cream to The Jimi Hendrix Experience to The Police to Violent Femmes to Primus to Green Day to Nirvana to Sublime. It’s the space between the notes, the rawness and the maneuverability, that makes a power trio, well, so damn powerful.
The band is built on the musical brotherhood that guitarist/vocalist Silas Durocher and bassist Jesse Gentry have formed playing music together since middle school. Durocher, who is a trained composer and has been commissioned to write for symphonies and chamber groups, has guitar chops that can soothe or rage and a charismatic swagger as a frontman and a singer. “Durocher has an impressive range and rich clarity to his vocals—think a more soulful Dan Auerbach” (Connect Savannah). Gentry’s virtuoso bass playing “catapults from elastic to nasty” (The Mountain Xpress). With the addition of Jian-Claude Mears, a drummer with “precision, passion, and an inescapable momentum” (Live For Live Music), the group’s sound has become an unstoppable force. They have been wowing audiences around the country and the Caribbean since their inception in 2011 with an unparalleled live show and a relentless tour schedule.
WNC Musicians for Change are musicians from Western North Carolina who are dedicated to using music to raise funds and awareness for worthwhile causes.
