New Album 'Trench Songs' Coming in November!

Trench songs were written by frontline soldiers during WW1. Essentially protest songs, they were often parodies of well-known tunes. We’ve rewritten new melodies and music for these words, in order to more readily access the emotional content of the lyrics, and to continue folk music’s long tradition of reshaping songs over time -- the same way soldiers reshaped these songs in the trenches.

It’s the most  stripped down album we’ve done. Other than percussion, the recording was performed by our 4 current touring members, a lot of it live off the floor.

During the pandemic, where war metaphors abound, these songs have given us much-needed perspective around hardship, the sacrifice of previous generations, and, mostly, what vulnerable communities can be forced to endure at the hands of the government and military in a crisis. We think about these soldiers when we sing, and hope you will too.