All They Will Call You – after (and before) the Plane Wreck at Los Gatos
January 28, 1948: A news piece about the wreck of a plane carrying migrant workers so moved Woody Guthrie that he picked up a pencil and wrote a poem. October 17, […]
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January 28, 1948: A news piece about the wreck of a plane carrying migrant workers so moved Woody Guthrie that he picked up a pencil and wrote a poem. October 17, […]
Wil Maring is living the life I’m talking about in my blog series: you don’t have to choose between art and music. This bluegrass / country / folk singer-songwriter’s lived, […]
The Ash Grove Film came into my periphery during the FAR-West 2023 Annual Conference. We were in full swing when Fred Aronow asked about getting an ad into the digital […]
The Ash Grove Film came into my periphery during the 2023 FAR-West Annual Conference. We were in full swing when Fred Aronow asked about getting an ad into the digital […]
It’s an acronym: Folk Alliance Region – West (coast and beyond). We wanted something pronounceable, like FARM or NERFA or SERFA or SWRFA. “WRFA” was…well, you can see, not great. […]
A rhizome is more than root or branch – also called rootstalk, it’s a supportive stem growing under the ground, laying out roots or sending new growth skyward. An aspen […]
Azere Wilson entered my world through the FAR-West 2023 Campfire private showcase. By the end of the conference, I thought she was great – not just as a musician, but […]
My favorite conversations compare and contrast disciplines: lyrics vs. poetry, music vs. art, or gymnastics, or anything. Azere Wilson dove into this territory without prompting. Azere Wilson (AW): Art for […]
Genevieve seems fearless. She spent nearly a decade as a touring musician, and then she up and went to Africa, documenting animals for local and international NGOs “and managing to […]