Carol Denney: Music, Politics, and the Metal Reed.

Time 2021-09-01 17:23:33

Web Name: Carol Denney: Music, Politics, and the Metal Reed.

WebSite: http://caroldenney.com

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Award-winning lyricist, published poet, guitarist, fiddler, and concertina* stylist, "Fiddlers for Peace" founder, curator of the "Deep Poetry Project", and founder and editor of the Pepper Spray Times. 2004 honoree by the City of Berkeley for homeless advocacy, 2003 honoree for civil liberties activism through music, humor, and art by the Berkeley Commission on the Status of Women, winner of the East Bay Express' readers' poll "Best Solo Performer" for 2002, and selected as one of the San Francisco Bay Guardian's 2001 "Best of the Bay". Featured writer at the Centre for Political Song, Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, microradio pioneer with Free Radio Berkeley, etc. Failure to Disperse Acoustic Revolt and Road Show ensemble and solo performances. Spiritual advisor and graphic production for the Best of Blasphemy project in Canyon, California. Published commentator in local and national fora. Proud part of the Folk This! extended family. Winner of the 2009 Oldtime Spirit award from the Augusta Music Heritage Festival, voted best female artist at PirateCat Radio in SF in 2010. Nominated to the Revolutionary Poets' Brigade by former poet laureate of San Francisco Jack Hirschman in 2010. Human Rights editor for Street Spirit newspaper. Inventor of the chairapillar. Crankie innovator. Organizer of the 2012 Olympic Sitting Competition. Contributing writer on the esteemed production of KPFA's TwitWit Radio. Author of "They're Building A Pipeline" song which successfully fought the Dominion pipeline through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. Performing at Bay Area venues including... Laborfest Event - Anne Feeney Spirit Lives, Saturday, July 3rd, 2021, 6:00 pm with Carol Denney, Matt Siegel, Pat Fahey, and other musicians singing recently passed activist and musician Anne Feeney's songs and labor songs over Zoom with you, which I hope we can do in person someday soon. I plan to sing "Plane Wreck at Tuzla", a song by Anne Feeney and one of the finest parodies ever written, about a plane that went down in Croatia carrying a cargo of CEO's whom I'm sure are greatly missed. https://laborfest.net/events/2021-07/ for more information Sunday, July 18, 7:00 pm, in-person Laborfest Event with the Revolutionary Poets Brigade,Spec's on 270 Columbus Avenue in San Francisco. Pick up a copy of the new Anthology, sing with the poets including Jack Hirschman, Sarah Menefee, Mahnaz Badihian, John Curl, Lincoln Bergman and many more. Come vaccinated! Friday, July 23, 4:00 pm, in-person Laborfest Rally to support UAW & striking mineworkers at 400 Howard Street in SF in front of Black Rock with Carol Denney, Pat Fahey, and others bringing focus to the Alabama miners strike and Black Rock's greed. Come vaccinated! Saturday, July 31,6:00 pm, Laborfest Ferryboat Tour with historians and musicians and food and drink and singing. Reservations available now at laborfest@laborfest.net andwww.laborfest.net Come vaccinated! Saturday, September 25, 2021,12:30 pm, 100,000 Poets for Change Event with FEATURED POETS: Nahid Aria, Mahnaz Badihian, Lisbit Bailey (HOST), Scott Bird, Dan Brady, Kristina Brown, Buford Buntin, John Curl (CO-HOST), Lucille Lang Day, Diego Deleo, Carol Denney, Maya Khosla, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Barbara Paschke, Antoinette Vella Payne, Alice Rogoff, Sally Love Saunders, Nina Serrano, Kim Shuck, David Leo Sirois, Martin Vernon, Wendy Wolters, and more (yipes!). contact me (510) 548-1512 or email for link.Lisbit Bailey hosting and sending out the zoom link beginning of September. John Curl co-hosting. (Photo to the left) Jim Nelson, Jack Chernos, and Carol Denney played for the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, then just went down to the water's edge and jammed with the fishes. They're Building A Pipeline has a page with the lyrics and there's a Youtube slideshow at http://youtu.be/Qx2wFZS5YWM Help preserve the wilderness in West Virginia by writing a letter to FERC - info here www.augustacountyalliance.org. ... RECORDINGS:,the newest of which is Because We Upon This Earth Are One available from this website and CDBaby. "Where'd the Money Go? the Bailout Song", an ode to the bailout with special thanks to Alan Greenspan, featured on National Public Radio, available for free download for those who just can't help making fun of old Hank Paulson who loves you very much and only wants what's best for you anyway. VIDEOS: Also:A book, "The Inner Life of Pumpkins". For the bargain price of $5.95, a serious book which took years to write and research.Click here for the PG&E song, alternatively titled Write the Check and Shut Up. "It's Not Police Surveillance; It's Love" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFrCKeKao3s "Like a Taser Touched for the Very First Time" Laborfest Video: http://youtu.be/qlJpiRx_gbA The Pepper Spray Times will make you wise and beautiful. The Best of Blasphemy, a project carefully guided to fruition by its spiritual advisor and co-writer Carol Denney, is available at http://www.thebestofblasphemy.com/index.html . Politics gets funnier as it goes along. Laura Drawbridge's original Free Radio Berkeley transcripts.Drop the SLAPP-Suit: The Real News About People's Park. The real improvement to People's Park isn't anything physical, and they won't let you talk about it.Life Is Much Better in JailNew, Enhanced Rules for People's Park"Bob's Blankets", A short story in remembrance of Bob Nichols."Save the Trains - Stop the Politicians""For the Gates, a song for San Quentin""Another Puppet Committee, or, The Canary in the Freebox"The Deep Poetry Project...The the money spent on Berkeley's most recent"arts district" project brought about the "Deep Poetry Project", poetry about holes, to highlight the disparity between Addison Street's poetry-pocked sidewalks and west and south Berkeley sidewalks, laden with the essence of evocative art, the hole...Politics is always worth thoughtful contemplation. 10 Myths About the Freebox in People's Park.Song for Kevin Freeman, killed in jail for no reason.Myths about political songs.The short story of micropower radio.Don't miss our novel feature, the Poetry Corner.The Simple Ways to Improve the World page."Fiddlers for Peace" page.Homelessness and the 647j campaign in Berkeley.Paraleiptic Audio Analysis. The seminar which will change your life, make your bed, and do your laundry.Observations on World News. Commentary for the bewildered.The SLAPP-Suit. The People's Park free speech anomaly still unresolved.Your personal Permit to Stop the War. Be sure your friends have one.The Pepper Spray Times. The newsletter for the very brave.Bio of sorts.You can email your orthoepic observations to "cdenney (at) igc.org ."

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