An Interview With He’s My Brother She’s My Sister
What is folk?
Rob: Folk is the music of the people so it’s music that can express how people in a culture or time period of our existence are feeling and thinking and help people connect with that and express it with music. It’s a way to bring people or “folks” together. It’s a sound that tries to get to the root of what it’s expressing.
An Interview With Ariana Delawari
What is folk?
Ariana Delawari: For me, it has to to do with storytelling. Having a message. It has to do with community, sharing what we see and feel in an intimate way. Telling a story with the intention of connecting and expressing a view and personal experience. It’s also commenting on our shared collective experience, our history, and our connectedness. It’s sort of like road trip stories.
An Interview With Becky Stark
What is folk?
What is folk and what isn’t folk. I must confess that I love all music. I love pop music. I listen to the radio. I love jazz. I mean, jazz?! What isn’t folk music? Folk isn’t something that one person can make that other people can’t make. Folk music is something you’re demonstrating that could belong to anyone. This is going to be bad to say but, for a long time, that lady, what’s her name? “Heathcliff, it’s me your Kathy, I’ve—”
An Interview With Robert James
What is folk?
Folk is people. People coming together, telling stories, exchanging ideas and personas and adventures and disappointment and tragedy and love. Sharing themselves with others. Folk can be dismantled and evolved but it has a simplicity that people can connect to. It’s a story that takes you out of your life and into this other world and this other person that you can then revolve back into your life. It allows people to story-tell.
Sunday, August 1 — An afternoon at Echo Country Outpost
We had to find a way to include these fine folks and this fine spot ‘specially dedicated to getting folky in The New Los Angeles Folk Festival.
An Interview With Yellow Red Sparks
What is folk?
Joshua: We fell into it not really consciously. It’s music that is kind of speaking to a general public, a general consensus of what the public is feeling on the human level. It’s speaking from your heart and addressing universal doings, meeting people on that level. That’s what it is to me as far as songwriting. Saying something more than just making music for entertainment.
