The Tide Is Rising: So Are We!
Earth Day Book Launch & Family Concert
Sunday April 27, 2025, 3-5pm
The Substation, 4288 Washington St, Roslindale, MA
Join Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman with Rozzie Bound Books, The Substation, and local climate organizations for a celebration of the publication of Rabbi Shoshana's new book, The Tide Is Rising: So Are We!: A Climate Movement Anthem, and an Earth Day concert with Rabbi Shoshana and her musical family.
Come sing, dance, and feed your spirit with verses of hope amidst the ongoing struggle for a livable future.
Rabbi Shoshana singing melody & harmony
Annie Patterson of "Rise Up Singing" sings The Tide Is Rising
World debut at First Church in Cambridge, MA (2015)
Arr. Dick Jackson & Cathy Baker
Arr. Nick Page
The Story Behind the Anthem
When I was a newly ordained rabbi in 2015, I read an email that would change my life: I was being invited to perform a song at Coming Together in Faith on Climate, an interfaith service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. in honor of Pope Frances’ visit to the US capitol. It was my mother who suggested I write my own song for the occasion, and I remembered the empowering words I’d seen at a climate rally several months earlier: “The Seas Are Rising: So Are We!” The line came from Gulf Shore Rising, a grassroots coalition responding with resilience and commitment to the disastrous BP Gulf oil spill in 2010.
Inspired by Gulf Shore Risings’ words, my husband Yotam Schachter and I co-wrote a climate anthem that I debuted at the National Cathedral. “Tide” quickly spread in the climate justice movement. It has been sung at protests, marches, blockades, conferences, worship services, and community gatherings. It has been covered by Annie Patterson & Peter Blood (celebrated creators of Rise Up Singing!), arranged for choir by Nick Page (internationally known song leader) and performed by choirs across North America. From Standing Rock to the People’s Climate March, from pipeline construction sites to holding cells in police stations, across oceans and at least three continents, “Tide” spreads a message of radical empowerment, devotion, and active hope. It holds us as we continue to fight for all we love.
All are welcome to sing it, print lyrics, and sheet music.
Please credit Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman & Yotam Schachter.