Amy Grant releases Jan 6 song about unity and political unrest in America

Veteran Christian music artist Amy Grant has launched a brand new authentic track that displays on nationwide divisions and seems to reference the January 6, 2021 riot, the U.S. Capitol, and the idealism of the Nineteen Sixties.

“The sixth of January (Yasgur’s Farm)” is an anthem that displays on therapeutic and connection amid world unrest and asks, “Are all of us misplaced?” in keeping with a press release.

“Yasgur’s Farm” refers back to the New York property the place the Woodstock music pageant happened in Bethel, New York, from August 15 to 18, 1969.

The track opens with nostalgia for the hopeful spirit of the late Nineteen Sixties, referencing Marvin Gaye, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon’s “Think about” and Woodstock. It then goes on to counsel that the occasions of ‘January 6’ marked a symbolic break with the idealism of the Nineteen Sixties counterculture.

Trump supporters attempt to break by means of a police barrier on the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. (Julio Cortez, file/AP picture)

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“Hey sir, the place’s the highway to Yasgur’s farm?” says the textual content. ‘He stares at me with pity and shock. He says the gang left right here way back, dispersed to hell and Harper’s Ferry, on January sixth.’

Later within the track she sings, “I look forward and understand we have misplaced our means.”

The track invitations listeners to “see the world by means of another person’s perspective, and acknowledge the ability present in collective understanding,” in keeping with the press launch.

The monitor shall be featured on Grant’s upcoming album of authentic songs, anticipated later this yr.

Amy Grant performs on the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on Might 10, 2024. (Jason Kempin/Getty Photos)

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Grant has been a number one determine in Christian music for many years, has received a number of Grammy Awards and is a 2022 Kennedy Middle Honoree.

She defined that the track is supposed to encourage individuals to hearken to opposing viewpoints to search out options.

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A younger communist holds up her signal throughout an anti-ICE rally in Foley Sq. in New York Metropolis on January 8, 2026. (Nikolas Lanum/Fox Information Digital)

“We function on this planet round us and generally ignore the ability of what we have now in our selections,” she mentioned within the press launch. “The track observes life and the turmoil that many people really feel, understanding that we form the world round us every single day. Maybe life and problem-solving is extra of a ‘we’ than ‘me’ dialog. If we are able to select to look by means of a lens aside from our personal, maybe there may be hope to come back collectively and discover a means by means of the turmoil.”

Grant’s administration shared an interview with Grant with Fox Information Digital, through which she elaborated on the inspiration behind the track.

“All of us make the world what it’s, sooner or later at a time. How we welcome ourselves into it. How we welcome one another. Once we have a look at the world round us as ‘us’ and ‘them,’ or once we have a look at the world as ‘we,'” Grant mentioned. “It’s critical that we sit in turmoil with out leaping to conclusions about learn how to remedy it. And that begins inside… inside ourselves.”