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In the Media

Si is a frequent guest on community and public radio stations throughout North America, and has appeared on Democracy Now!, Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, E-Town, the WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour and the late Studs Terkel’s nationally syndicated interview show. As part of the joint radio promotion campaign for his award-winning CD Courage and his book Creative Community Organizing, he did over 100 individual interviews in the U.S., Canada and Europe, many of which were widely syndicated.

Reviews of Si’s CDs, books and musicals, as well as personal profiles, have appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, The Progressive, The Nation, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, the Chicago Tribune, the Charlotte Observer, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Rolling Stone, Variety, Performing Songwriter, Sing Out!, Bluegrass Unlimited, Bluegrass News, The Old Time Music Herald, the Canadian folk music magazine Penguin Eggs and the German-language roots music magazine Folker.

Reviews and Articles

Folker Magazine (2013)

Charlotte Folk Society (2013)

No Depression (2013)

Hearth Music (2013)

The Charlotte Observer (2013)

Penquin Eggs (Autumn 2010)

In Honor of Si’s 80th Birthday Today, April 23,

Please Join Us in Launching the Si Kahn Living Legacy

Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer, John McCutcheon

The goal of the Si Kahn Living Legacy is to build awareness of, support for, and public access to the amazingly large body of Si’s creative work that no one except Si has ever seen, and ultimately to keep it alive and easily accessible after he’s gone.  Si has been recognized internationally as one of the most important English language social justice songwriters, connecting his cultural work and social activism like so many before him, including Pete Seeger (with whom he worked, toured, and recorded) and Woody Guthrie.  

Nora Guthrie and others started the Woody Guthrie Archives long after Woody’s passing. As Si turns the corner to his 80th birthday, it’s a perfect time to think ahead, to gather, catalog, and make available those of his songs, stories, book manuscripts, poems, and other creative works that have never before been seen or heard by anyone except Si. The time to do this is now, while he’s healthy, still actively creating, and available as a friendly resource to the Living Legacy’s growth and development. 

It of course takes funding to build and maintain a major project like this. Your contributions are tax-deductible, as the project is managed by and part of the 501(c)3 non-profit Generations: Music for Justice (EIN 87-1647310).

Let’s do this together, recognizing the importance of Si’s life not just as an organizer and musician, but as a humane, generous, deeply kind person, who has spent his entire life trying to make this tired world a kinder, gentler, more just place for all of us.