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Folk to Folk is an independent documentary project exploring how contemporary folk music builds communities and creates accessible, participatory spaces across America today.

 
   

We interviewed Taylor Ross, one of the founders and organizers of The Beauty Shop, a DIY space and music residency program in Fairfield, Iowa, in late August 2012.

We interviewed and filmed Paper Bird in a sunny community garden in Denver, Colorado in mid-August, 2012, and Esme, Genny and Sarah sang an acapella version of "The Doldrums" for us.

Saintseneca's Maryn and Zac performed "Only the Young Die Good" in their home in Columbus, Ohio in early August, 2012.

Folk to Folk got the chance to hang out with and film The Wild at a Red Roof Inn in Gainesville during the Fest 10 last October.

"Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger were buying $800 cars and driving them into the ground to play union halls in the middle of no where. I mean, what's more punk than that?"
-Steve D'Agostino

We filmed and interviewed Yo Soybean at their practice space in Athens, Georgia in late October, 2011.

“There’s a lot of people with this new folk emergence that sounds like an older folky sound with their instrumentation, but it’s lacking the message that folk music used to contain.”
-Nick Mallis

Folk to Folk spent a few days in Asheville, North Carolina in late October 2011 and got the chance to film The Honeycutters and Uncle Mountain at their homes.

“In times like these, people want something real...they’re just really craving something that’s just going to connect them to that basic human pool of emotion.”
-Amanda Platt

Our first stop on our Fall 2011 road trip was the Baltimore home of Ryan Harvey and Mark Gunnery, two members of the Riot Folk Collective.

"Folk music didn't just happen in the '60s, it's happening right now and we're doing it right now"
-Ryan Harvey

 
     
 
Folktofolk@gmail.com | Emma Dessau erd316@gmail.com | Nina Mashurova nmashurova@gmail.com | Andrew McFarland andrewpmcfarland@gmail.com
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