Join Berkeley's own political singer-songwriter extraordinaire Carol Denney to celebrate the release of her new album, The Cruel Lullaby, a collection of songs old and new including "Don't Cry For the Tinman," "The PG&E Song," and the workers' ballad "Who Built This House." Equally facile on guitar and English concertina, Carol has crafted an inimitable style with her songs of love, joy, and political struggle, delivered in one of the strongest voices to be heard among musicians in the Bay Area. Winner of the East Bay Express' readers' poll "Best Solo Performer" for 2002, Carol recently received an award recently from the City of Berkeley's Commission on the Status of Women for civil liberties activism through music, humor and art. Carol is also a gifted comedic performer -- she appeared in Berkeley Satirithon and George Coates' Berkeley Mock City Council. The ensemble Folk This! open, presenting exquisite harmonic arrangements of folk songs of labor and resistance, past and present, linking the generations of activists who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s and the folks making waves in the protest movements of today. They recently recorded an album titled Banks of Marble.