Freight and Salvage: Si Kahn

Si Kahn
Sunday, December 4, 2005
singer, songwriter, social activist
Door 7:30pm, Music 8:00pm | Purchase advance tickets: $17.50

"It's now almost twenty-five years since I first began working as an organizer and musician," Si Kahn recently said. "My work in the civil rights movement led me through the coal camps and cotton mill towns of the South to the Brookside strike in Harlan county, Kentucky; the brown lung movement and the J. P. Stevens campaign in the Carolinas; and the critical work of organizing and coalition-building among black and white, women and men, rural and urban. The people I've met and worked with, their words and songs, their stories and jokes, have been the stuff out of which my songs have been woven. My hope is that these songs will help us find the strength in ourselves that we need to keep on keeping on."

Si is one of the finest and most prolific folk music composers at work today. His songs, including folk and bluegrass standards like "Aragon Mill," "Spinning Mills of Home," and "Wild Rose of the Mountain," have been widely recorded and are sung throughout the world wherever people gather around a cause or just for a good time. His newest album, a "60th birthday CD" entitled We're Still Here, is, like all his work, a tribute to the persistence and resistance of working people everywhere. Si is also the author of several books on grass-roots organizing, most recently How People Get Power (NASW).

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