Living Legacy Project

Si Kahn has been recognized as one of the most English-language important songwriters in social justice music, 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. 

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.

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 others. The time to do this is now, while Si is healthy, still creating, and can be 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 work not just as a writer and activist, but as a humane, generous, deeply kind person, who’s spent his entire life trying to make this tired world a kinder, gentler, more just place for all of us.

                                                                     –Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer, and John McCutcheon