Folk Will Save Us Podcast

The Folk Will Save Us podcast features interviews with standout artists using cultural traditions to innovate and inform a healthier, more integrated society. Listen to episodes from Season 1 below, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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The Future They Imagined: Daniel Kahn
Yiddish, Klezmer, Folk music, Punk, Detroit, Berlin, Community
The Future They Imagined: Daniel Kahn
Yiddish, Klezmer, Folk music, Punk, Detroit, Berlin, Community

Folk-punk Yiddishist Daniel Kahn speaks beautifully about community creation, autonomous cultural zones, and future-gazing.

Yiddish, Klezmer, Folk music, Punk, Detroit, Berlin, Community
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth: Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra & Xilam Balam
Music, Nueva Canción, Hip-Hop, Latinx, Visual Art, Indigenous, Norwegian
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth: Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra & Xilam Balam
Music, Nueva Canción, Hip-Hop, Latinx, Visual Art, Indigenous, Norwegian

Co-founders of Electric Machete Studios, Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra and Xilam Balam share a tradition of resilience and resistance.

Music, Nueva Canción, Hip-Hop, Latinx, Visual Art, Indigenous, Norwegian
Like You’re on the Mountain: Slavka Slavtcheva
Bulgaria, Folklore, Folk Dance, Bulgarian, Minnesota
Like You’re on the Mountain: Slavka Slavtcheva
Bulgaria, Folklore, Folk Dance, Bulgarian, Minnesota

New Year’s dances and songs from the mountains are what Slavka Slavtcheva says capture the heart of Bulgarian folklore.

Bulgaria, Folklore, Folk Dance, Bulgarian, Minnesota
Music Became Everything: Ahmed Ismail Yusuf
Poetry, Music, Somali, Somalia, Minnesota
Music Became Everything: Ahmed Ismail Yusuf
Poetry, Music, Somali, Somalia, Minnesota

Playwright and author Ahmed Ismail Yusuf believes deeply that Somali poetry and song carries the soul of a people.

Poetry, Music, Somali, Somalia, Minnesota
Next Up: Healing Roots: Kari Tauring
Next Up: Healing Roots: Kari Tauring

Kari Tauring teaches European-heritage Americans how to examine the roots of their own hurts in order to become allies for change.

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