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Folk music is America's cultural public secret. Live performances and recordings of our traditionally, orally/aurally schooled musicians are available to those who know about them and know where to look, but for nearly all of us they are stored in a dark and unmarked warehouse, hard to find, impossible to navigate. These old types of blues, old-time country, gospel/spirituals, Mexican and Cajun/Zydeco music are a truth telling attack on our so called "pop" culture and a window into the interior of our culture, from which the public has been systematically excluded. This music gives reality to our history and to our present by expressing the deepest thoughts and feelings of regular people from different parts of the country, different backgrounds and different time periods.

Down Home Radio will give this music light and air thereby opening the warehouse and making accessible the information it stores. Listen at the roots, with a mind for detail. Given this information, you will no longer accept stereotypes of or fall for clichés about our cultural past. Let this program be your introduction and a continuing guide to this trove of material. For musicians and fans of music alike you will find a fresh and clear perspective in your evolving appreciation and critique of music.

In times of crisis such as the Great Depression of the 1930's and the world revolutions of the 1960's folk music, both as a mirror and a hammer, has come to the fore and played an important role in movements for social and political change. Today we are once again in the middle of a huge economic, political, etc. crisis. To address this, in addition to our emphasis on traditional music, Down Home Radio will educate our listeners as to the history of overtly political folk music and also give voice to contemporary political folk musicians.

**Click Here** to read a statement of purpose for this program, by Henrietta Yurchenco .