Steve Suffet
Links to festivals and organizations.
Nof Ginosar, Israel. May 5, 2007.
Photo by Naomi Verchovsky.
Black Swan Folk Club
Meets Thursday evenings at the Black Swan Inn, a beautiful, old public house in York, England.
Borderline Folk Music Club
Sponsors concerts in Rockland County, NY.
Bowery Poetry Club
The new home of the annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash, as well as one of the hippest venues in New York City. Music, poetry, performance art, and much more.
Centre for Political Song
Located at Glasgow Caledonian University. Exists to promote and foster an awareness of all forms of political song.
Dissident Folk and Arts Festival
Held at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY.
Eco-Festival
Brooklyn, NY. Held each spring at Kingsborough Community College.
Eisteddfod New York Traditional Music Festival
Catskill, NY. Sponsored by the Folk Music Society of New York.
El Puente
Community based organization in Brooklyn, NY, which nurtures and develops youth leadership for peace and justice. El Puente (Spanish for The Bridge) has a strong arts program, which includes music and other performing arts.
FAB (Folk - Acoustic - Blues) Club
Meets Sunday afternoons at the White Hart Pub in Grays, Essex, England.
Folk Against Fascism
Uniting folk musicians against fascism, racism, and xenophobia.
Folk Music Society of New York
Also known as the New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club. Sposnors folk music events within the five boroughs of New York City, plus weekend retreats in the country.
Folklore Society of Greater Washington
Sponsors folk music and dance events in Washington, DC, and its environs.
Herga Folk Club
Meets on Monday evenings at the Pinner Green Social Club on the northwest outskirts of London.
Jacob's Ladder Folk Festival
Nof Ginosar, Israel.
Local 1000, American Federation of Musicians, AFL-CIO
Union of traveling musicians in the USA and Canada. Think of it as a "non-local" local.
New England Folk Festival. Mansfield, MA.
Orpington Friday Folk
A folk club which meets Friday evenings (of course!) at the Liberal Club in Orpington, Kent, England.
People's Music Network
Brings together progressive political activists and musicians throughout North America.
Peoples' Voice Cafe
New York, NY. The place to hear progressive political music -- and much more -- in the Big Apple.
Philadelphia Folksong Society
Sponsors folk music events in and around Philadelphia, including the Philadelphia Folk Festival.
Sharps Folk Club
Meets on Tuesday evenings at Cecil Sharp House in London.
Union Songs
Australian website with a database of more than 500 songs of struggle, almost all in English, from around the world.
Vox Pop
Brooklyn, NY. Radical cafe, book store, and community center with lots of good music, delicious food, and fair traded coffee.
Woody Guthrie Foundation, Archives, and Publications
The best source for everything having to do with Woody.
Yippie Museum Cafe
Located in the heart of New York City's East Village and right around the corner from the Bowery Poetry Club, this cozy little venue presents a wide variety of music in an alcohol-free environment. Kids and teens are welcome, as are their aging ex-hippie parents and grandparents.
- Go to live recording of Steve Suffet performing Worried Man Blues at the Bowery Poetry Club. July 13, 2008.
- Go to Steve Suffet's main page.
with Varuni Tiruchelvam, Hector Sanchez, and Carlos Rosello.
Brooklyn, New York. December 23, 2008.
Photo by Joe Matunis.