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FolkWorks provides an alternative voice for roots/traditional music, dance & related folk arts - vibrant culturally diverse communities. https://folkworks.org/
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FolkWorks October 2025: Dance, sing, play music, prepare food together. Be a part of something bigger.
FolkWorks gives a shout out of thanks to our writers who dedicate their time to share stories with all of us.
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The Sunday Jubilee S3E4: “We Shall Overcome” Trad. Arr. by Pete Seeger, Guy Carawan, & Frank Hamilton ©1960. This week Jubal discusses the iconic “We Shall Overcome” and how it came to be, & then how it came to be the anthem of the Civil Rights movement.
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The Sunday Jubilee with Jubal Lee Young S3E4: We Shall Overcome
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FolkWorks October 2025: Dance, sing, play music, prepare food together. Be a part of something bigger.
FolkWorks gives a shout out of thanks to our writers who dedicate their time to share stories with all of us.
Read, Listen, Watch at icont.ac/518nt
FolkWorks #Sept2025: School is starting & we thought to focus our attention on songs & dances for & about children. Brings back memories for us; maybe for you too?
Read, watch & listen to these September offerings:
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Roughly 100 #teachers w/ #ClearTheList & #DonorsChoose that they need fulfilled for their #classroom & #students

#Educators need our support & can't do it alone

Teachers should NEVER have to buy their own supplies

50% of 100 is better than 100% of nothing

#EduSky #TeacherSky

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FolkWorks August 2025: Come follow us on our journey to Galician Music & Dance: icont.ac/515Nb. We promise you won't be sorry.
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#GaliciaSpain #Galicia #Spain #SpainMusic #SpainDance #TraditionalMusic #WorldMusic #MusicSky
FolkWorks July 2025: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
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'This Land is Your Land' proclaims that America belongs to ALL of us. We are therefore including not only people singing about it, but the diverse peoples that make up this country.
15th Ever Los Angeles Old Time Social, Sat, May 17, Noon till 10 PM, The Velaslavasay Panorama Theater, Los Angeles 90007 losangelesoldtimesocial.com

65th annual Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival Sun, May 18, The King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas, CA!
Info/Tix: www.topangabanjofiddle.org
FolkWorks SPECIAL for May 17-18 events in Southern California
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#May2025Events #OldTimeSocial #FolkFestival #TopangaBanjoFiddleContest
FolkWorks May 2025 Newsletter - blogs, articles, recommended videos and featured touring musicians
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#MayDay2025 #MayDay #May2025Events #May2025
Read the April 2025 FolkWorks Newsletter: icont.ac/510EJ

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#April2025 #Spring2025 #ClimateChange #EarthDay #EarthDay2025 #Passover #Easter #ShapeNoteSinging #Dayenu
Then, recognizing this month also brings Passover and Easter, we celebrate Shape Note Singing by giving examples and a short history of these liturgical songs, along with versions of the traditional song “Dayenu,” a Hebrew Passover song that originated over 1,000 years ago.
FolkWorks April 2025 Newsletter - blogs, articles, recommended videos and featured touring musicians.
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FolkWorks welcomes Spring … flowers are blooming and the temperatures are rising.
But nothing in the weather is predictable with climate change, so in recognition, this issue celebrates Earth Day by digging into some of the folk songs about climate change.
FolkWorks April 2025 Newsletter - blogs, articles, recommended videos and featured touring musicians.
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FolkWorks welcomes Spring … flowers are blooming and the temperatures are rising.

Read the April 2025 FolkWorks Newsletter: icont.ac/510EJ

#Spring2025 #ClimateChange #EarthDay #EarthDay2025 #Passover #Easter #ShapeNoteSinging #Dayenu