We are excited to launch our second online mini-concert with a YouTube premiere at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, January 1! You can watch here: Join us on Zoom to chat before and after the concert! Everyone who joins the Zoom will be entered into a drawing for an Iowa City

The virtual choir project we have been working on since last June has involved lots of unbudgeted expenses and extra labor hours from many people. The Family Folk Machine is grateful to have received grant support to help defray these expenses. Last fall we were awarded a grant from the

Family Folk Machine Lyrics for November 15 Online Concert That Cause Can Neither Be Lost Nor Stayed (lyrics in video) My Rainbow Race One blue sky above us, one ocean lapping all our shores One earth so green and round, who could ask for more And because I love you,

Hope you can join us at 3:00 (Central Standard time) on Sunday, November 15 for the YouTube Premiere of our first online One Planet concert! You can watch the concert here: You can also join us on Zoom before and/or after the concert to chat about the songs: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/95006655217?pwd=N3k3MjlrVjdtQjRNQkE5Q2N3SXN0QT09 Meeting

Hello, friends! We are gearing up for our first-ever online concert! It will start at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 15; here’s the link: If you’d like to join our chat, use this Zoom link: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/95006655217?pwd=N3k3MjlrVjdtQjRNQkE5Q2N3SXN0QT09. You can use two different devices, one playing the concert on YouTube and the

If you’d like to see the version of the story that includes a few stills from our videos, check it out here: https://www.press-citizen.com/story/life/2020/11/07/iowa-city-family-folk-machine-bringing-original-music-life/6152438002/ And here’s the text-only version: by Jean Littlejohn The Family Folk Machine is excited to announce our First-Ever Special Pandemic-Era Online Mini-Concert! Join us at a YouTube

Join us in cyberspace this Sunday evening to sing along in celebration of women’s suffrage! Members of the Family Folk Machine have created recordings of five suffrage songs, and at this event you can sing them along with us. Three of the songs were used in the struggle for women’s

We’re so pleased to be able to share a sneak peek at our virtual choir project! The first project video is complete: Images and animation by Susan Stamnes. “That Cause” is a Danish hymn set to a Danish folk tune, and the writer of the text immigrated to Iowa. You

The Family Folk Machine was putting together a great concert that was to take place this past May. We decided in March to pick up with the “One Planet” songs this fall, after a pandemic-induced delay. But now we have learned that singing in large groups is a very efficient