Come and sing or listen to some of the oldest songs in our language, brought here to America mostly by migrants from the British Isles. Ballads are old, narrative songs, long transmitted by word of mouth. Therefore, many of them have various different versions; they are sung all over this country.
Sadie comes from a folk music background in Vermont, and she has sung all her life. She likes the old songs, and ballads (mostly those collected by Professor Francis Child), and she collects and studies the origins and meanings of traditional songs and folklore. For several years, Sadie broadcast a weekly streaming radio show, on which she discussed and shared her research on all of the ballads in Child, playing several different versions of most of them. She enjoys talking about the ballads, and learning new versions from recordings and from the many singers who frequent singing zooms.
She is also an artist, a grandmother, a writer, and a big reader, and she lives with her husband Grover beside the Russian River in California.