‘We Need a Gentle Anger’: The Triangle’s Raging Grannies are Protesting Injustice through Music

Founded in Canada in the 1980s, the Raging Grannies have gaggles around North America—and plenty to sing about. 

Even in a crowd of thousands, they’re instantly recognizable by sight and sound: silver-haired women wearing colorful aprons and floppy hats, brandishing cardboard signs and sheafs of lyrics, singing acerbic protest songs set to cheerful nursery tunes.