Thursday, April 11, 2013
8 PM to 10 PM
Cambridge, MA
Discovering Folk Music, music and discussion workshop
Cambridge Center for Adult Education
42 Brattle St. Cambridge, MA USA
phone: (617) 547-6789
Price: $46.00
website: ccae.org

Some Topics Touched:
What Lead Belly taught Pete Seeger about songwriting--and swinging a hammer.
Was Pop Goes the Weasel a working song for Moms?
What was the real house of the Rising Sun?
How folk songs were a secret language for oppressed people.
Is folk music healthier today than in the 1960s?
Why Yankee Doodle called his feather "Macaroni"--and predicted who would win the American Revolution.
How Pete Seeger "accidentally" wrote an American folk classic.
Did Joe McCarthy help ignite the commercial folk revival?
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary&Thyme: recipe for cooking--or the perfect lover?
The trick radicals used to politicize '60s songwriters.
Were the greatest folk ballads written by women?
The strange connection between Woody Guthrie and Robert Burns.
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