Music, Politics, and the Metal Reed
Honest tunes and politics served just as friendly as breakfast.
Award-winning lyricist, guitarist, fiddler, and concertina* stylist, stencil artist, "Fiddlers for Peace" founder, curator of the "Deep Poetry Project", and editor of the Pepper Spray Times. 2004 honoree by the City of Berkeley for homeless advocacy, 2003 honoree for civil liberties activism through music, humor, and art by the Berkeley Commission on the Status of Women, winner of the East Bay Express' readers' poll "Best Solo Performer" for 2002, and selected as one of the San Francisco Bay Guardian's 2001 "Best of the Bay". Featured writer at the Centre for Political Song, Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, microradio pioneer, etc. Failure to Disperse Acoustic Revolt and Road Show ensemble and solo performances. Spiritual advisor and graphic production for the Best of Blasphemy project in Canyon, California. Published commentator in local and national fora. Proud part of the Folk This! extended family. Winner of the 2009 Oldtime Spirit award from the Augusta Music Heritage Festival, voted best female artist at PirateCat Radio in SF in 2010. Nominated to the Revolutionary Poets' Brigade by former poet laureate of San Francisco Jack Hirschman in 2010. Inventor of the chairapillar. Performing at Bay Area venues...
Sunday, May 27th, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, Golden Gate Bridge Workers' Rally for the 75th Anniversary sponsored by IATSE 16 and the San Francisco Labor Council, featuring Carol Denney and the Rocking Solidarity Chorus at Crissy Field (near the cannons).
Friday, June 1st, 2012, 8:00 pm at Viracocha -- 998 Valencia Street in San Francisco, CA. Carol Denney and a line-up of featured poets and musicians. Viracoch's philosophy: "Viracocha is a community-operated retail space, dedicated to the explorative nature of human expression, in the fields of Vintage Design & Fashion, Visual Art, Music, Spoken Word Poetry, Stand Up & Improvisational Comedy, as well as both Traditional & Experimental Theater & Dance."
Sunday, July 8th, 2012, 3:00 pm at Armando's, 707 Marina Vista, Martinez, Carol Denney with Hope Savage and The Hopeful Romantics. You'll find a map here: http://armandosmartinez.com/php/location.php Never been to Armando's? Check it out: Armando's features the best of LIVE music including jazz, blues, bluegrass, folk and everything in between, everything except over-played typical bar rock and roll. Great sound system, a real scene.
... pick up some recordings:, also available at Downhome Music (www.downhomemusic.com), CDBaby, and Amazon.com.
Occupy songs and poems including "Have Yourself A Slice of Occupy" mp3.
"Where'd the Money Go? the Bailout Song", an ode to the bailout with special thanks to Alan Greenspan, featured on National Public Radio, available for free download for those who just can't help making fun of old Hank Paulson who loves you very much and only wants what's best for you anyway.
A video of The Song of the Wealthy Man from a Revolutionary Poets' Brigade performance: link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yO4qgqx0aE
Also:
A book, "The Inner Life of Pumpkins". For the bargain price of $5.95, a serious book which took years to write and research.
Click here for the PG&E song,
alternatively titled Write the Check and Shut Up.
How to Build Your Own Concertina , a step-by-step instruction for beginners.
May 2012 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
April 2012 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
March 2012 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
A video of the song "Raised to be a Lady" is at this YouTube address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40G6SG3gILA
A video of the song "The Song of the Wealthy Man" is at this
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yO4qgqx0aE
The Best of Blasphemy, a project carefully guided to fruition by its spiritual advisor Carol Denney, is now available at http://www.thebestofblasphemy.com/index.html .
Drop the SLAPP-Suit: The Real News About People's Park. The real improvement to People's Park isn't anything physical, and they won't let you talk about it.
Life Is Much Better in Jail
New, Enhanced Rules for People's Park
"Bob's Blankets", A short story in remembrance of Bob Nichols.
"Save the Trains - Stop the Politicians"
"For the Gates, a song for San Quentin"
"Another Puppet Committee, or, The Canary in the Freebox"
Don't think for a minute that Berkeley has free speech...1-17-05
"What's going down now in People's Park: donate clothing, get a ticket - how Berkeley can you be?"
Favorite moments in media.
A Simple Music Lesson.
The Deep Poetry Project...The the money spent on Berkeley's most recent
"arts district" project brought about the "Deep Poetry Project", poetry about holes, to highlight the disparity between Addison Street's poetry-pocked sidewalks and west and south Berkeley sidewalks, laden with the essence of evocative art, the hole...
Politics is always worth thoughtful contemplation.
10 Myths About the Freebox in People's Park.
Song for Kevin Freeman, killed in jail for no reason.
Myths about political songs.
The short story of micropower radio.
Don't miss our novel feature, the Poetry Corner.
The Simple Ways to Improve the World page.
"Fiddlers for Peace" page.
Homelessness and the 647j campaign in Berkeley.
Paraleiptic Audio Analysis. The seminar which will change your life, make your bed, and do your laundry.
Observations on World News. Commentary for the bewildered.
The SLAPP-Suit.
The People's Park free speech anomaly still unresolved.
Your personal Permit to Stop the War. Be sure your friends have one.
The Pepper Spray Times. The newsletter for the very brave.
Bio of sorts.
Click the writing hand for critics' comments.
Click the concertina for information without which you may well perish.
Some people can't get enough gratuitous commentary.
You can email your orthoepic observations to "
cdenney (at) igc.org ."