
Tunes From Our Backyard – featuring Mae Powell and Karla Rivera Lozada
Sweetwater Music Hall 19 Corte Madera Blvd, Mill Valley, CA, United StatesDuring the Great Depression, San Francisco-native Sidney Robertson carried out a remarkable ethnomusicological survey—the WPA California Folk Music Project. From 1938 to 1940, with support from the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration, the University of California, Berkeley and twenty staff handpicked from the California relief rolls, Robertson recorded and documented the diverse musical traditions in […]