Betsy Siggins

Club 47 Staff Member and Founding Member of NEFMA

Betsy Siggins 3: There’s a saying that folk music is for the people, by the people, and of the people. I think if you think about that it’s really homespun, it comes from Africa, it comes from all over Europe and the East, the Middle East, and it’s coalesced here a lot because of the immigration issues that brought people here. In as many ways as people have come here they have brought their culture, and with it their music, their food, their dance, their stories, their myths, their politics. It’s been a great opportunity for people to then say “how do I express my difference?” And it comes back through music and story over and over and over again.