Si Kahn’s Magisterial New 5-CD box set: Si Kahn at 75: The Europe Sessions

Pre-Order your copy now! Supplies are quite limited. Si Kahn at 75: The Europe Sessions is $30 plus $5 postage.

Strictly Country Records (SCR) in The Netherlands has been Si’s main record label for more than 25 years, ever since 1993 when he recorded In My Heart in the North of that county, produced by SCR’s Pieter Groenveld. Pieter and Si met at MerleFest in 1992 and they’ve been great friends ever since.  Si honored Pieter on his recent album Best of the Rest, writing:

This album is dedicated to Pieter Groenveld of Strictly Country Records in The Netherlands, the best friend anyone could ever ask for, without whom none of this would have happened.

The five CDs in the box set are those Si recorded in The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland over the last 25 years:

•In My Heart (1993): Just Si, his voice and guitar playing in a farmhouse in the north of The Netherlands.

•Threads (2002): Recorded with the Kruger Brothers back when they were still living in Switzerland, before they moved to the U.S. and became Si’s near-neighbors in North Carolina.

•We’re Still Here (2004): The late great bluegrass songwriter and singer Liz Meyer is featured on this CD along with Joost van Es, fiddle player with the legendary Dutch bluegrass band 4 Wheel Drive.

•Thanksgiving (2007): Recorded in The Netherlands with the Dutch duo Ygdrassil, featuring Linde Nijland and Annemarieke Coenders.

•Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions (2013): Recorded in Germany with the German bluegrass band The Looping Brothers.  This is the only CD of the five that’s not out of print.

At $30 plus shipping, the 5-CD box set Si Kahn at 75: The Europe Sessions is a model of unit pricing and consumer friendliness.  Not only are the five CDs only $6 each, you’ll get each of the 94 songs for only 31.39 cents.  Such a bargain!

Order Yours Now! This is a limited edition collectable at a bargain price.

Si Kahn at 75: The Europe Sessions is $30 a copy plus $5 postage (USA); $10 (Canada and Mexico); $14 (outside North America)

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.