News & Noteworthy

Ken Grossinger's powerful forthcoming book Art Works provides the focus for Si Kahn's June Newsletter. The late Harry Belafonte wrote “My life as an activist and my life as an artist are inseparable. Ken Grossinger reveals the power generated when these two strands...

Last summer I had a fine time hanging out and talking shop with Charlie Herbert, a 12-year-old Canadian musician. Charlie had a poetry assignment in school recently, and chose to write about my song “Aragon Mill." He even took the lyrics from the powerful version of...

I spent the summer of 1965 as a volunteer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, more popularly known by its initials SNCC (pronounced “SNICK”) in Forrest City, Arkansas. Those four months were, and remain, the turning point in my life. It was there, in...

https://folk.org/donate/for-petes-sake/ I am proud to share that I’m joining Folk Alliance International as a Champion for the #ForPetesSakeDonate campaign in support of The Village Fund. In this role, I am asking you to join me in this campaign. Your task is simple....

Enjoy Si's November 2016 three-part video conversation with folklorist Steve Winick of the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/collections/event-videos/?fa=online-format:video%7Caccess-restricted:false%7Ccontributor:winick,+stephen%7Ccontributor:kahn,+si

From Si's occasional (every 2 to 4 weeks) enewsletter. Subscribe here.All the best for the New YearHere’s a toast to the New Year, and to all of you for whom my music has mattered. May 2022 be a happy, musical year for you and yours, with a little more peace and...

Armistice Day was created following the brutal First World War as nations mourned their dead and collectively called for an end to all wars. Armistice Day, when bells tolled at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, was designated as "a day to be dedicated...

On Wednesday, November 3, 2021, the acclaimed The Bluegrass Situation, co-founded by actor Ed Helms, profiled the title song from the re-release of Si's Been A Long Time. You can read the feature here:...

You can watch the showcase submission, a ten-minute excerpt from Stranger in This Land, at https://youtu.be/TE967_wtzoY The Alliance for Jewish Theatre conference curators selected Si's musical play Stranger in This Land for the first of only three virtual performance...

Been A Long Time (Sliced Bread Records CD-SB71202) Featuring the late Charles Sawtelle, Pete Wernick, Laurie Lewis, Todd Philips, Tom Rozum, and Sally van Meter. ON SALE NOW: LEARN MORE: https://sikahn.com/music/been-a-long-time-2000/ STREAM NOW:...

Thursday, September 9, 2021 What they’re talking about is the proposed Pebble Mine, my major organizing work since 2010, when Bristol Bay commercial fisherman Dan Strickland invited me to come to Alaska to write a theme song for the campaign to stop the mine and to...

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Kamau Marcharia is one of the unsung heroes of the Southern Movement.  Thursday, July 1, 2021 In the Beloved Community, We Take Care of Our Own Support Kamau The phrase “beloved community,” which so many of us learned from the beautiful, powerful rhetoric of...

Click https://fightingunionbusters.orgto learn more In Mid-November 2020 LaborPress.org interviewed union organizer Phil Cohen about his second memoir Fighting Union Busters in a Carolina Carpet Mill. NB: Unfortunately, a computer hack wiped out six months of the...

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-lives-wfae-tickets-134280846627?aff=storytellerpromo You probably already know this.  But when someone in Appalachia or the Deep South says to you, “You’ve been telling stories again,” they’re basically telling you that you’re...