Folk This! Folk This!
Folk This!
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about us
Folk This! frequently collaborates and shares the stage with a wide variety of performers. The core of the group are the three members described below, however we are always interested in working with more and different people. Email us at Folk_This@yahoo.com to get in touch or offer your sound to the mix!
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Susan Appe 0 Susan Appe
In addition to playing banjo, guitar and singing leads and harmonies in Folk This! Susan Appe is a teacher, activist, organizer and visual artist. She is a member of the women's revolutionary a cappella group Samsara, the chorus teacher at The Community School in Oakland, the founder of the annual Women's Voices Rise Up benefit concert, a teacher at Art in Action youth summer camp, a puppet-builder with Art and Revolution, a worker-owner of Rainbow Grocery Cooperative and a member of the Board of Directors of the People's Grocery project in West Oakland. Her work in arts-activism is featured in the film "Art as Revolution" by Forward Films.
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Marcus Duskin 0 Marcus Duskin
Marcus has been singing and playing guitar since age 10. He grew up in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960's, and spent his college and early adult years as a non-card carrying communist. Along the way he learned an awful lot of protest songs. More recently he has been an actor and director in musical theatre and opera, a writer of libretto for 3 children's musicals, and a writer/editor/publisher of a radical arts magazine, News From Nowhere. In July 1999 he was invited to perform on a local cable TV show and invited 3 other artists (Susan Appe, Brian Buckley-Smith and Lisa Horan) to join him, an event which led to the formation of what is now Folk This!.
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Ramsey Kanaan 0 Ramsey Kanaan
By day, the devilishly handsome Mr Kanaan labors tirelessly as part of the anarchist publishing and distribution collective AK Press. When not smashing the state one book at a time, he can often be found playing soccer (albeit in an over 30s league these days), dancing to 80s music and stuffing his face (boy does he like to eat). He swears alot in conversation, but gets away with it cos folks like his funny accent. Now entering his 25th year of punk rockdom, he is mildly embarassed to be the "old guy at the back" at punk gigs - a status somewhat offset by the consolation that he still appears to be the young whippersnapper at most folk concerts. He is old enough (judging by the expanding waistline and receding hair) to have done alot of stuff in his time, and wise enough not to brag about it.