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Join our friends @bioneers at the #Bioneers2021 virtual conference to experience how some of the wisest among us are bridging the space between worlds. Prices increase on 10/15, so register […]

Thursday, June 16th from 9 to midnight! YES IT'S TRUE- A LEGENDARY HUDSON PAIRING Liv Carrow, the wayward ex-local darling of the alleged local music scene, will return to play […]

Artists from South Sudan, a new country fraught with internal conflict, make a case for the power of community agriculture in their music video. As they sing, rap, and comb through […]

Corner Tour is a band of charmers. We like to defy your ears with our melancholy mountain carnival. But don't ask us what kind of music this is. Listen for […]

Revernd Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir "are wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters and Earth loving urban activists who have worked with communities all over the world defending community, life and […]

   Farm Aid 30  will be at FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island on Saturday, September 19! Tickets on sale August 3 with (limited) discounted tickets available to farmers. There are […]

  Phil Ochs: come for the brilliantly funny song intros and stay for the revolution.

   Listen here!  See them live! Stay tuned for more details.

   Neil Young's "The Monsanto Years" tour kicks off today! The Greenhorns are joining the tour and we are looking for representatives for each show. You will join an "Activist […]

These folks have met their kickstarter goal, but additional dollars pledged will go towards building a dedicated classroom for their Music for Sprouts program right on the farm. $1 gets […]

Greenhorns! We would love to hear from you! Please send songs by August 1st in the following format to: [email protected] Track title: Artist: Written by: Link to a recording: Contact of […]

if you've got roots and/or connections in the Southeast, spread the word! Whistlepig Productions Presents: "I'm Goin' Home: Worksongs, Chanteys and Roots Music with Max and Maggie." Join Max and Maggie for […]

We love this band. The Whiskey Farm

The Agrarian Resistance Mixtape is looking for musical submissions! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxY1SkEwXY] Please send songs by April 15th in the following format to: [email protected] Track title: Artist: Written by: Link to a recording: […]

Arann Harris and the Farm Band Hillstomp  

Check this out from Robin Grey: The Ballad of Hawkwood. One of our new favorites. Hawkwood Nursery is the main site of Organiclea, a workers' cooperative growing food on London's […]

the song-poem story.  OFF THE CHARTS: The Song-Poem Story is a fascinating, at times unsettling, documentary that exposes the strange underworld of the song-poem industry. In this little known subculture, "ordinary […]

Worksongs.org This site holds a collection of songs people have used, are using, or could use to aid labor.  It’s maintained by me, Bennett Konesni, a farmer-musician from Maine. It’s […]

Imagine an intergalactic mix tape of agrarian resistance.  If you know a song that must be on that mix, send it in! [email protected]

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Hello loyal blog readers,  Our occasional, random requests have been so fruitful that we're coming back for more! Can you send in  your favorite: 1. Farm / farm-affiliated bands 2. […]

We Greenhorns are hosting a booth again this year at Farm Aid in Saratoga Springs, NY.  Tickets are sold out for the show already, but we've got slots 4 slots […]

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We love this band! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kPR9TIiEDA] The New Agrarians

for our Grange event in Keeseville, NY! Pocatello. Listen to some songs HERE

We love worksongs! Max Godfrey leads the old Leadbelly tune Hey Rattler at Plant & Sing 2012 at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/54693244]

for open sourcing your whole collection online ! Here is a radio piece about it.. and a link to the collection online: http://www.prx.org/pieces/60435-open-source-on-the-margins-of-music-alan-lomax

if you are an organizer ( even a greenhorn organizer) and you'd like to sing some worksongs with max - and can pass a hat for gas money and cook […]

http://blackpotfestival.com It's a gumbo cook-off and cajun zydeco old-time music festival. say what!!? Held annually at Lafayette’s Acadian Village, the festival celebrates its 5th year this October with two days […]

The HONK! Festival is a revolutionary street spectacle of never-before-seen proportions that will converge for the seventh time in Davis Square, Somerville, MA, from Friday, October 5 through Monday, October […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RHtyGZ1_bs&utm_source=music+mailing+list&utm_campaign=a483b953e1-Farmer_Revolution9_7_2012&utm_medium=email] www.beckywhitemusic.org www.makeartnow.org

Rerecording miners and protests songs, organized by the anti mountain top removal folks. http://www.blairpathways.com/ Pre-order or download the CD HERE The story of the Battle of Blair Mountain is an […]

a song by our hudson hero: Brian Dewan. Who also sings songs about sausage making, which we are working on recording for the New Farmers ALmanac. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnOQtUemjG8]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk6pUb0rP1g] Clearwater Festival.org

Grammy-nominated Blue Highway, a contemporary bluegrass band, will play Shelter Island, NY in a concert sponsored by Sylvester Manor Educational Farmwith support from the Town of Shelter Island Recreation Department. […]

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