“Cotton Mill Girls” as I know and teach it, has a lot to say about women’s conditions in textile mills and the ways in which women negotiated power at theirContinue readingHard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Women Taking Power in the 1929 Bemberg-Glanzstoff Strike

I was inspired by the snow to make a video about a song I’ve been excited about this winter! “Mirie it is while sumer ilast” is the earliest known secularContinue readingNew Video: Mirie it is while sumer ilast

About a month ago, my lovely friend Brian Dolphin hosted a get-together of musical friends in Asheville, NC. The participants took turns teaching original tunes and songs to the group,Continue readingNew Single: I Want to be Down in the Valley

For the past year, I’ve been working on an album with my dear friends Sam Gleaves and Si Kahn: “I Have Known Women: Songs by Si Kahn Celebrating Women’s LivesContinue reading“1920” Music Video and New Album: “I Have Known Women”

On March 13th, 2020, my audio piece on naturalist and storyteller Doug Elliott aired on Inside Appalachia! Based in North Carolina, Doug uses stories and songs to get kids excitedContinue readingStory on Doug Elliott on Inside Appalachia