Award-winning lyricist, published poet, guitarist, cartoonist, fiddler, and concertina* stylist, "Fiddlers for Peace" founder, curator of the "Deep Poetry Project", and founder and editor of the Pepper Spray Times. 2004 honoree by the City of Berkeley for homeless advocacy, 2003 honoree for civil liberties activism through music, humor, and art by the Berkeley Commission on the Status of Women, winner of the East Bay Express' readers' poll "Best Solo Performer" for 2002, and selected as one of the San Francisco Bay Guardian's 2001 "Best of the Bay". Featured writer at the Centre for Political Song, Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, microradio pioneer with Free Radio Berkeley, etc. Failure to Disperse Acoustic Revolt and Road Show ensemble and solo performances. Spiritual advisor and graphic production for the Best of Blasphemy project in Canyon, California. Published commentator in local and national fora. Proud part of the Folk This! extended family. Winner of the 2009 Oldtime Spirit award from the Augusta Music Heritage Festival, voted best female artist at PirateCat Radio in SF in 2010. Nominated to the Revolutionary Poets' Brigade by former poet laureate of San Francisco Jack Hirschman in 2010. Former Human Rights editor for Street Spirit newspaper in Berkeley, CA. Inventor of the chairapillar. Crankie innovator. Organizer of the 2012 Olympic Sitting Competition. Contributing writer on the esteemed production of KPFA's TwitWit Radio. Performing at Bay Area venues including...
Augusta Music Heritage Festival, Waltz Across Breakfast unless we all sleep in...
June 8th, 2024, World Oceans Day, San Francisco's North Beach Public Library Revolutionary Poets Brigade Anthology release with Carol Denney.
Saturday, April 27th, 2024, 8:00 pm, Strings, 6320 San Pablo Avenue, Emeryville, the hottest acoustic underground venue featuring Carol Denney, Steve Baughman, and David Cronin. Information at 510-653-5700.
Sunday, April 7th, 2024, 3:00 pm, Art House Gallery, Untold and Undertold Stories of People's Park hosted by Carol Denney and David Axelrod. Donation requeste for the Gallery. The Art House Gallery is at 2905 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. A curated show, but everybody's stories are welcome. We will fit you in somehow, and hope to have more of these gatherings, a people's teach-in. Starts at 3:00 pm, potluck items welcome.
Thursday, 7:30 pm, September 14, 2023, Sopa Thai in Yuba City with Rick Rawlinson and local lumaries. Address: 720 Plumas St, Yuba City, CA 95991, Phone: (530) 790-7672 for more information.
Friday, 7:00 pm, September 22, 2023, The Beat Museum in San Francisco with the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, which is unveiling its new poetry anthology,"Healing A Fractured World" with editor John Curl and the brigade. 540 Broadway, San Francisco, CA.
(Photo to the left) Jim Nelson, Jack Chernos, and Carol Denney played for the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, then just went down to the water's edge and jammed with the fishes.
They're Building A Pipeline has a page with the lyrics and there's a Youtube slideshow at http://youtu.be/Qx2wFZS5YWM ...
...also a song called "Don't You Want to Live in Yuppieville" is on Youtube at: http://youtu.be/TiGB3e2tXa0
...and also a song called "Dump Your Boyfriend at Christmas" --to be used only for extreme cases.
"Where'd the Money Go? the Bailout Song", an ode to the bailout with special thanks to Alan Greenspan, featured on National Public Radio, available for free download for those who just can't help making fun of old Hank Paulson who loves you very much and only wants what's best for you anyway.
A book, "The Inner Life of Pumpkins". For the bargain price of $5.95, a serious book which took years to write and research.
Click here for the PG&E song,
How to Build Your Own Concertina , a step-by-step instruction for beginners.
How to Make a Cardboard Traveling Crankie Theater and delight the world.
Some crankies on YouTube, for frame of reference:
"It's Not Police Surveillance; It's Love"
"Like a Taser Touched for the Very First Time" Laborfest Video: http://youtu.be/qlJpiRx_gbA
The Pepper Spray Times will make you wise and beautiful.
January 2024 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
February 2024 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
March 2024 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
April 2024 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
May 2024 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
June 2024 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
December 2023 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
November 2023 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
October 2023 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
September 2023 issue of the Pepper Spray Times.
The Best of Blasphemy, a project carefully guided to fruition by its spiritual advisor and co-writer Carol Denney, is available at http://www.thebestofblasphemy.com/index.html .
Politics gets funnier as it goes along.
Laura Drawbridge's original Free Radio Berkeley transcripts.
Drop the SLAPP-Suit: The Real News About People's Park. The real improvement to People's Park isn't anything physical, and they won't let you talk about it.
Life Is Much Better in Jail
Favorite moments in media.
Click the concertina for information without which you may well perish.
Some people can't get enough gratuitous commentary.
You can email your orthoepic observations to "
cdenney (at) igc.org ."
Help preserve the wilderness in West Virginia by writing a letter to FERC - info here www.augustacountyalliance.org.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvI-xwacKwM
alternatively titled Write the Check and Shut Up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFrCKeKao3s
New, Enhanced Rules for People's Park
"Bob's Blankets", A short story in remembrance of Bob Nichols.
"Save the Trains - Stop the Politicians"
"For the Gates, a song for San Quentin"
"Another Puppet Committee, or, The Canary in the Freebox"
Don't think for a minute that Berkeley has free speech...1-17-05
"What's going down now in People's Park: donate clothing, get a ticket - how Berkeley can you be?"
A Simple Music Lesson.
The Deep Poetry Project...The the money spent on Berkeley's most recent
"arts district" project brought about the "Deep Poetry Project", poetry about holes, to highlight the disparity between Addison Street's poetry-pocked sidewalks and west and south Berkeley sidewalks, laden with the essence of evocative art, the hole...
Politics is always worth thoughtful contemplation.
10 Myths About the Freebox in People's Park.
Song for Kevin Freeman, killed in jail for no reason.
Myths about political songs.
The short story of micropower radio.
Don't miss our novel feature, the Poetry Corner.
The Simple Ways to Improve the World page.
"Fiddlers for Peace" page.
Homelessness and the 647j campaign in Berkeley.
Paraleiptic Audio Analysis. The seminar which will change your life, make your bed, and do your laundry.
Observations on World News. Commentary for the bewildered.
The SLAPP-Suit.
The People's Park free speech anomaly still unresolved.
Your personal Permit to Stop the War. Be sure your friends have one.
The Pepper Spray Times. The newsletter for the very brave.
Bio of sorts.
Click the writing hand for critics' comments.