(7pm/free) - Tim Holt presents The Water is Wide: Folk Songs of the Oceans and Rivers April 12, 2012

(7pm/free) - Tim Holt presents The Water is Wide: Folk Songs of the Oceans and Rivers

Folk singer, Tim Holt performs and discusses our heritage of traditional songs and sea chanteys. Some favorites he will sing are “Shenandoah,” “The Erie Canal,” and Woody Guthrie’s “Talkin’ Columbia” and “Roll On Columbia.”

Holt will include a song with his own original lyrics, “Sailing Down My Mountain Stream,” adapted from a Pete Seeger song about cleaning up the Hudson River. His version focuses on a more recent effort to restore wild salmon to the upper reaches of the Sacramento River.

In the good old hootenanny tradition, Holt will encourage everyone to sing along on these classic American folk songs.

Official Website: http://sf.funcheap.com/water-wide-folk-songs-oceans-rivers-east-bay/