Democracy Festival

Saturday, Aug 2, 2025 at 12:00pm

Putnam Park

Speakers:

Matt Keller is a Senior Advisor at Democracy 21, where he helps in Democracy 21’s advocacy work, fundraising, coalition, and communications efforts. Keller is the Director of Impact and Inclusion at the Algorand Foundation and previously served as Executive Director of the Global Learning XPRIZE, as Vice President of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), and as Legislative Director for Common Cause, where he led the organization’s efforts to enact the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.

Matt walked with Granny D.

Michael "Lefty" Morrill is currently Organizing Director for NH Peace Action & NH Peace Action Education Fund. He  is a community leader with a lifelong dedication to social and economic justice.

Lefty was arrested with Granny D in 2000 when she was manacled and jailed for reading the Declaration of Independence in the Capitol Rotunda.

Entertainment:

We'll have music by FolkSoul Duo: Leslie Vogel and Fred Simmons live in Greenfield, New Hampshire.  With their home umbrella organization, Folksoul Music, which includes their Folksoul Duo, the band Tattoo and the Folksoul Band, they have been bringing American Roots music of all styles to the communities of the Monadnock Region and beyond for the past three decades.  During Doris “Granny D” Haddock’s run for US Senate in New Hampshire Fred and Leslie and a couple of other friend musicians decided to become Granny D’s personal marching band as she walked into the many towns of this state to give her memorable campaign speeches in the village squares.

Eve Pierce is a passionate and charismatic singer-songwriter who currently splits her time between writing and performing her original songs, performing the lead vocals for the Celtic Rock band Waking Finnegan, and creating Folk Cabarets with her friend and fellow musician Gordon Peery.  Her debut album "Save the Bell Tower"  was released in 2021 and is available for purchase and download. She is currently working on her next solo album and Waking Finnegan’s first album.  You can learn more about her at evepierce.com.

Artist Sophia Asbury will join us to do caricature art!  Have your caricature done in a variety of sizes.  They make great gifts! Check out all of Sophia's art HERE.

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