Local Music Soundoff

Amy Martin Debuts New CD to Promote Minimum Wage Initiative

By Courtney Lowery, 10-16-06

Album Cover Painting by Stephanie Frostad

Missoula activist/musician Amy Martin is touring the state this month to promote her new album and the cause behind it: the minimum wage initiative.

Amy's Bind Me to Free is the culmination of a partnership with the Montana Human Rights Network, an 11-song album filled with stories of poverty, war and religion, and meant to promote passage of Initiative 151 this November, which would raise Montana's minimum wage.

Amy is giving free concerts during her "Stepping Toward Justice" tour in Hamilton, Anaconda, Kalispell and Great Falls and is celebrating the release of the album with a party here in Missoula this Saturday at the Wilma Theatre. Amy will be joined on stage by at least a dozen other local musicians, author Rick Bass and dancer Anya Cloud. Doors open at 7 p.m. and tickets are $7 in advance or $10 at the door.

Amy, who has been part of our "Local Music Soundoff" feature before, has offered up to New West listeners a sample of the album. Click here to listen to Home Uninjured, track 5 on Bind Me to Free.

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