Award-winning lyricist, published poet, guitarist, 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. Human Rights editor for Street Spirit newspaper. Inventor of the chairapillar. Crankie innovator. Organizer of the 2012 Olympic Sitting Competition. Contributing writer on the esteemed production of KPFA's TwitWit Radio. Author of "They're Building A Pipeline" song which successfully fought the Dominion pipeline through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. Co-founder of the People's Park Historic District Advocacy Group. Performing at Bay Area venues including...
Thursday, September 14, 2023, 6:30 pm Sopa Thai in Yuba City, CA. Part of a collection show of local musicians including folksinger Rick Rawlingson.
Friday, September 1, 2023, 7:00 pm Outside Maacharini Creative Design 1544 Grant Street, San Francisco. Part of the First Fridays festivities, come take the art walk.
Sunday, April 23, 2023, 11am to 6pm, People's Park's 54th Anniversary celebration and celebration of the life of co-founder Michael Delacour. I'm playing a solo set with anyone handy, part of a long lineup including park luminaries from decades ago. Come learn some history in the park that stopped a war.
Monday, March 12, 2023, Morgan's Mill, 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm in Woodland, CA, with Jimmy Bruno & others for an acoustic showcase.
Sunday, March 19, 2023, Doors at 7:30 pm, 8:00 pm showtime at Lost Church, Carol Denney with Steve Baughman at 988 Columbus in San Francisco (cross street Chestnut; venue just shy of the SW corner of the intersection). It's worth the trek to see this speakeasy-style acoustic hall and the loving care put into it by its amazing staff. If you've never seen Steve Baughman, well trust me, you will be mindblown. He's astounding.
Friday, March 3, 2023 at the Monkey House, Doors: 7:00 pm, Showtime 7:30 pm, Carol Denney with Jimmy Bruno and Hiram Bell, all masters of their craft. The Monkey House is at 1638 University Ave, Berkeley, CA 94703, easy street parking and bus access. We really hope you are vaccinated. We'll probably do two sets in the round and there's great refreshments. Hiram, Jimmy, and I go back decades, so this is like home base.
Feb.23rd, 2023, Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm at Sopa Thai restaurant, 720 Plumas St. Yuba City, Ca. It's only about 90 minutes north from Berkeley. You'll hear Carol Denney as a feature along with her old friend and sterling folk performer Rick Rawlinson, as well as some additional local talent. Excellent food! This is a show that will remind you what it's all about
December 18, 2022, 11 am, Sunday, Get Your Tickets To Mars! We are planning to have an event on the madness of Musk and capitalism at San Francisco's Twitter headquarters, 1355 Market Street (at 10th) We have a link to Laborfest.net and link with other groups and organizations. Music by David Rovics, Jimmy Kelley, Carol Denney, poets and art work on the 10th which is also Human Rights Day. We hope to contact laid off Twittter workers in SF and around the world where he illegally laid them off in Japan and other countries and have them participate and speak if they are willing. If you can contact artists, poets, musicians and commedians we can have an powerful event. Also if you know artists in orther countries who want to contribute to this international event. I plan to play Sleeping in my Tesla.
Saturday, November 5, 2022, 7:00 pm - Revolutionary Poets Brigade & others present Women - The First Target featuring Carol Denney and international poets at the Beat Museum in San Francisco highlighting the oppression of women yes, with humor. The Beat Museum is 540 Broadway near Columbus Avenue, only ground floor accessible, Phone: (800) 537-6822 for more information.
(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
Help preserve the wilderness in West Virginia by writing a letter to FERC - info here www.augustacountyalliance.org.
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...also a song called "Don't You Want to Live in Yuppieville" is on Youtube at: http://youtu.be/TiGB3e2tXa0
Carol Denney with Frank Buffum at the Freight linked here at https://berkeleycitizen.org/music/music17.htm
...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.
Click here for the PG&E song,
How to Make a Cardboard Traveling Crankie Theater and delight the world.
Some crankies on YouTube, for frame of reference:
"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.
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October 2022 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 .
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 "
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvI-xwacKwM
A book, "The Inner Life of Pumpkins". For the bargain price of $5.95, a serious book which took years to write and research.
alternatively titled Write the Check and Shut Up.
How to Build Your Own Concertina , a step-by-step instruction for beginners.
"It's Not Police Surveillance; It's Love"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFrCKeKao3s
Politics gets funnier as it goes along.
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.