Todd Crowley
FOLK MUSICIAN - PERFORMING ARTIST - AUTOHARP SALES & REPAIR
PLAY STATION RING MASTER - MUSICAL PETTING ZOOKEEPER
Folk music took up residence in my soul when I was a kid listening and singing along with my sister Sheila's Chad Mitchell Trio, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, etc. LPs. It has never left me. I am a folkie. I am not a rocker or bluesman or singer-songwriter. I sing and play folk songs, old and new.
Woody Guthrie once said, "It is the job of the folksinger to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable."
Often in my life folk music has provided me with great comfort. When I have been sad, it has lifted my spirits. When I have been angry, it has given words to feelings I could not express any other way. When I have felt happy, it has made me exuberant beyond measure.
Early on, I also connected with the politics of folk music and the way it often brings dignity to the stories of the poor and dispossessed. Whether a Civil Rights Era Phil Ochs song or an old Irish ballad about resisting English oppression, folk songs tell a history not often found in the history books. ...more
