asaplive.com: "David Keenan is an author, freelance journalist and musician. Keenan was the first writer to popularise the term 'free folk' in his Wire cover story "The New Weird America" (The WIRE 234) and his talk will be based around further elucidating the whole concept of 'free folk' - its roots, historical antecedents and potential futures, particularly highlighting the degree of common ground shared by both folk and experimental modes. He will also talk about the role of 'community' in folk music and how new technology (internet/home-burning CD-Rs) has enabled a new form of community to come together. The talk will particularly focus on the reasons why free folk has suddenly become such a popular form and provide some creative context by demonstrating how the UK has long provided an indigenous continuum of DIY roots activity - folk/punk/industrial etc - in much the same way that US rock was fuelled by more primal/feral forms like blues etc..."
