Badass Women in Folk Song: a Virtual 6 Week Course

Song leader Saro Lynch-Thomason is offering Badass Women in Folk Song, a 6 week class that teaches a one-of-a-kind collection of ballads and songs about witches, warriors and triumphant women from Scotland, England and Appalachia. As we’re painfully aware right now, women, femmes, trans folks and so many others are dealing with a rise in sexism and discrimination. Badass Women in Folksong is intended to be a balm for what our society is facing in this moment. Singing has always been a vital source of self-expression, but also a strategy to share tactics for survival, and these old songs have much to teach us.  

In this 6 week class, participants will nestle into winter time and gather round the hearth to:

- Explore songs on women’s roles as witches, warriors, survivors and justice-seekers. 

- Settle into the good feelings of “slow time” to learn the ancient art of ballad singing

- Learn historic tactics for bodily autonomy, freedom, sexual choice and collective liberation

- Create new songs inspired by tradition

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This class is taught online over Zoom, with an in-person option for those close in Western North Carolina. In addition to 7 live learning sessions, you’ll also receive 5+ robust song packets of audio essays, music recordings, YouTube playlists and more on the class themes including:

• Witches, Mermaids and Fairy Queens 

• Warriors, Sailors and Smugglers

• Outwitting Assailants 

• Sexual & Reproductive Autonomy 

• Working Women’s Songs of Protest