SILLY FOLKERS
Music for Social Change
Satirical, political, fun, and sometimes deeply serious folk music!
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Our Philosophy
The best folk music comes straight from the heart. It transcends time, color, geography, age, and nationality.
A song that a Swedish kid plays on a sidewalk in Barcelona... that was written by a guy in Kentucky... who heard it from his Irish grandmother who remembered an old man singing it in Dublin 75 years ago. That's how folk infects and then roots.
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Silly Folkers connects you to the greatest, the unknown, and, occasionally, to our own folk creations.
About Us
Silly Folkers' passion is to connect folk music from its earliest roots right up to today.
We share music traditions from around the world to show how this music connects all of humanity.
Today more than ever, thanks to technology!
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Music for Social Change
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
- Phil Ochs
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The Ballad of Vlad the Cad
Music by Silly Folkers
Joni Mitchell & Richie Havens
Every Generation
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world. - Joni Mitchell
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People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history. - Rhiannon Giddens
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Joni Mitchell Interview | CBC News: The National, 2013
Rhiannon Giddens on African American Contributions to Music | Amanpour and Company, 2019
Rhiannon Giddens on David Holts State of Music | PBS, 2015
Speaking Freely: Richie Havens | Freedom Forum, 2002
Evolution of Folk Music
Silly Folkers see folk music as representing the hope, laughter, anger, and tears of humanity. A thousand streams of this music flow into 100 rivers, all filling one universal sea of souls.
So folk music is a river... but not just the Shenandoah. The Yangtze and the Seine too. It’s Jesus and yin and yang. It’s American Whiskey and Russian Vodka. It’s men mining coal in Pennsylvania, men and women picking cotton in Mississippi, and girls pounding corn in Mali. It begins with people and doesn’t have an end.
Our goal is to bring people together around the traditions and to share the new. Stay tuned and stay in touch.
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Music for People
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. - Woody Guthrie
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This Land Is His Land | New York Times, 2014
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Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' Documentary | Ginger Group Productions, Directed by Jim Brown and Arlo Guthrie,1984
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Can Woody Guthrie's Machine Still Kill Fascists? | Vice, 2012
Woodie Guthrie
Joni Mitchell & Richie Havens
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Sympathy for the Donald
Lyrics by Silly Folkers
(based on Sympathy for the Devil
by the Rolling Stones')
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What's That Word?
Cheated? Hosed? Swindled?
Music by Silly Folkers
Questions, comments or special requests? We’d love to hear from you, so don’t hesitate to reach out today!
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