Music, Politics, and the Metal Reed
Honest tunes and politics served just as friendly as breakfast.

Sometimes one's best audience is the weather. 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, 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...

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 Commemoration of The 100th Anniversary of The Bread And Roses Strike with Carol Denney, Dave Rovics, & friends. Potluck 6:30 PM , Presentation 7:15 PM At: ILWU Local 34: 801 2nd St. next to AT&T Stadium , San Francisco. (Free parking in union parking lot) $10.00 Donation-Bring A Dish And Your Voice No One Turned Away Due To Lack of Funds. Donation to go to Occupy San Francisco and ILWU Local 21

Two dates, two locations for the Martin Luther King Sing-along! Start the new year right! Sing! Eat! Occupy your heart!

Saturday, January 14, 2012, 8:00 pm - Sing-along Birthday Celebration for Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Fellowship Hall, First Presbyterian Church 1140 Cowper Street, Palo Alto (more detail at http://www.peaceandjustice.org/ ) Start the new year right! Sing! Eat! Meet the best people! Bring your voices and we'll sing the great songs of the civil rights, peace, and labor movements together! Snacks and Birthday Cake provided during intermission. Free, contributions will be requested. with Folk This and guests; Markus Duskin, Carol Denney, Jim Nelson, and Matthew Wilson.

Sunday, January 15th, 2012, 7:00 pm - Sing-along Birthday Celebration for Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. at 1171 Colusa (a private house) Occupy your heart with Folk This and special guests; reservations at daniellsdin@gmail.com or call (510) 277-6669. Bring your voices and we'll sing the great songs of the civil rights, peace, and labor movements together! Snacks and Birthday Cake provided during intermission. Free, contributions will be requested. with Folk This and guests; Markus Duskin, Carol Denney, Jim Nelson, and Matthew Wilson.

As times get harder, some people know what really matters. Then there's the rest of us. the concertina is the tool of the devil

... pick up some recordings:, also available at Downhome Music (www.downhomemusic.com), CDBaby, and Amazon.com.

How to Build Your Own Concertina , a step-by-step instruction for beginners.

 the press always handwrites its thoughtful commentary it helps to have a really nice smile Dogs know that music is both a form of prayer and a form of negative income. 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 ."

Photos by Mark Nelson, Michele Thomas, and the Cliff House camera booth.

Pepper Spray Times artwork by Roger Dondis, other artwork by C. Denney