She was always writing songs that tried to express the occasion that we were in.
And when that's the case, it makes a lot of sense that people would be afraid to lose one. They create the anthem, “Nunca Mas Mujer.”Near is touring across the country playing her old tunes and her new songs from her 31st full length album and is working on a new bookDirected by four-time Emmy Award-winner Jim Brown (American singer-songwriter, actress, teacher, and activistClip | Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem on Holly NearClip | Holly Near on the story behind “Singing For Our Lives” Holly Near on the story behind “Singing For Our Lives” -My mother grew up with privilege, so she went to every musical and every museum and -- that could possibly do. -♪ We are a land of many colors ♪ ♪ And we are singing, singing for our lives ♪ -Holly was my first experience of music as a communal experience, a movement experience.
-♪ I've been waiting so long -♪ So long -♪ For another song -Holly had just done a concert. -♪ For to be hopeless -Would seem so strange. I really didn’t understand the significance of her music or of the changing times, since I was busy being a kid.
-The 'sexual revolution' of the '60s, you know, really meant men were on top.
-♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ If you can die for freedom, I can, too ♪ -And there were all kinds of actors and actresses and musicians trying to figure out how to have an entertainment industry response to the war. [ Laughing ] Let's throw them at one another and see if they can help each other out.'
So, pretty soon, these same producers were opening record stores and were adding records to their bookstores. -We started in San Jose, went to Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum, went back to San Francisco, and when it came to New York, we had great previews and standing ovations, and then we had a terrible review, and the producer shut the show down. ♪ And we can sing for a long, long time ♪ ♪♪ -♪ What do you do for your living?
I look back at it and say, 'Well done,' you know?
There were kind of regular music outlets, like Tower Records here in L.A., which started selling women's music right away. [ Laughter and applause ] No, he said -- he said, 'I can't help it -- he's my replacement.' which I wouldn't be lying or exaggerating if I said that there weren't thousands of women who came out to that song.
So if it can send people off to war, it can turn people around and make them revolutionaries.
I hope that we can continue to be in her presence while she performs. -Timing is [Chuckling] everything, you know?
-I don't think I was really fat, but I wasn't thin enough for Hollywood. And it was one of the things that actually drew me to Redwood. It was still a time where you could name those famous lesbians on one hand.
It was just a real heart response to her work, to her story. I feel as if there are people like me all over the world who have spent the last 40, 60 years of their life looking at race and gender and class. [ Chuckles ] [ 'Change of Heart' plays ] ♪♪ -♪ Something changes in me ♪ When I witness someone's courage ♪ ♪ They may not know I'm watching ♪ ♪ And I may not let them know ♪ That something changes in me ♪ That will last me for a lifetime ♪ ♪ To fill me when I'm empty ♪ And rock me ♪ When I'm low -One of the stories she used to tell between songs was about how, when she first came out as a lesbian, one of her heterosexual friends let her know later -- in later years, that she had had to go to the bathroom and be sick. And that puts us, as elders, in an amazing position.
-Well, it meant that we had to press our own records and lug them with us as we went from town to town, and that wasn't fun -- you know? 1983 Near goes on …
-I've been with men.
I was the first out lesbian to be in 'People' magazine. She didn't even -- I mean, I was in the next room.
-Holly Near was the key for the exchange of musicians between the United States and Latin America.
-Holly was being cast a lot as a character actress.
So we called it the Indochina Peace Campaign. It meant that our parents had to become a distribution house.
-Holly was doing all these shows around the country, and people wanted her music. And when we didn't have television, we became our own form of entertainment.
Near sings to one million people at the enormous Nuclear Freeze Anti-Nuke Rally in Central Park, which is featured in the documentary In Our Hands. [ Cheers and applause ] She did a tour with Inti-Illimani, which is a Chilean group.
-It just started to pick up and gain speed to where we are today. -40-some women have been killed by their husbands in this year alone -- what they call 'femicide.'
And when you're marching along in the rigid line of the band, you'd be what we all want to be -- individuals. I was seduced by the idea that I might be lovable not just as somebody who was cute to go out with, but deep down lovable. I saw one big tough Marine kiss another Marine. -And then, further down the line, when she said she was dating men, one of her lesbian friends told her later that she had to go to the bathroom and be sick.
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