The Family Folk Machine presents “Down By the Riverside,” our spring concert, on Sunday, May 4, at 3 p.m. at the Senior Center. The concert will include familiar water songs like “The Water is Wide” and “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore” as well as lovely and lively new favorites. Read more
A version of this column appeared in the Iowa City Press-Citizen on Sunday, April 27, 2014
“The heart of Iowa is its rivers.” So writes Jazmine Enriquez of the Iowa Youth Writing Project in a poem created to accompany the Family Folk Machine in “Down By the Riverside.” Read more
On Saturday, April 26, a group of Folk Machinists met at the Coral Ridge Mall for an Earth Day event at the food court. Along with the local chapter of the 100 Grannies, the Iowa River Friends, and others, we sang the Climate Song. Read more
Join us this Saturday for an all-request sing-along! Bring instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. We’ll have Rise Up Singing books, and Uptown Bill’s will provide the warm and cozy atmosphere.
There’s free parking evenings and weekends in the UI lot across the street from Uptown Bill’s. Read more
Join the Family Folk Machine on Saturday, March 29 and/or Sunday, March 30 to view The Power of Song, an inspirational documentary about the life and work of Pete Seeger. FilmScene is showing the documentary at 3 p.m. each day, and each viewing will be followed by a sing-along Read more
Join us this Saturday for an all-request sing-along! Bring instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. We’ll have Rise Up Singing books, and Uptown Bill’s will provide the warm and cozy atmosphere.
There’s free parking evenings and weekends in the UI lot across the street from Uptown Bill’s. Read more
This column appeared in the Iowa City Press-Citizen on Sunday, February 9, 2014:
The Family Folk Machine is celebrating its first anniversary. We like to bring music into the community, and one of the ways we do so is by hosting Community Folk Sings. Read more
The Family Folk Machine will host our monthly Community Folk Sing at Uptown Bill’s on February 8, 2014, from 3:00 to 4:30. We will focus our group efforts this month on paying tribute to Pete Seeger, who was and is such a big part of the reason we all sing.
Every second Saturday, we gather at Uptown Bill’s to sing favorites from the book Rise Up Singing. Bring your instrument and request a song!
Greetings! And welcome to you all this afternoon. We are the Family Folk Machine, and we are delighted that you have chosen to spend this time with us as we explore in song the theme of hope, and the many ways we experience and express hope Read more
The following article appeared in the Iowa City Press-Citizen on November 10, 2013.
Family Folk Machine Concert November 24: Hoping Machine
by Jean Littlejohn
“Don’t let anything knock your props out from under you Read more
