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I write songs as a way to explore our connections with each other and the world we live in. In the words of Eduardo Galeano, I write..."out of a need to communicate and to commune with others, to denounce that which gives pain and to share that which gives happiness." News Good News! Bev just won first place in the International Narrative Song Competition in the "Historical Circumstances" category for her song "The Women Are Coming". View Bev's Electronic Press Kit at Sonicbids.com The Brooklyn Women's Chorus now has its own website! New Release! Now available on CD, The Human Condition with Beverly Grant, Working People Gonna Rise! with four bonus tracks! Listen to Bev's new song: The Women Are Coming.  In July of 2002, the women of the village of Ugborodo in Nigeria took over the neighboring Chevron/Texaco oil terminal demanding electricity, roads, schools, hospitals and a more equitable distribution of the wealth from the oil extracted from their country by the multi-national corporation. Read more about the story that inspired the song...  Read the lyrics...     The Park Slope Food Coop recently featured Bev and the Brooklyn Women's Chorus in The Linewaiters' Gazette. Read the full story!     Listen online: "We Were There" title track...                 Comments? email Webmaster

Bev with Charlie King, Jon Fromer and Dave Welsh singing on the picket line, summer 2003. Photo Credit Hedy Hilburn