{"id":148651,"date":"2025-09-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=148651"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:57:25","slug":"the-young-peoples-music-of-little-folkies-acoustic-guitar-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/the-young-peoples-music-of-little-folkies-acoustic-guitar-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Young People\u2019s Music of Little Folkies | Acoustic Guitar Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Young People\u2019s Music of Little Folkies | Acoustic Guitar Sessions\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bislo0mVNZA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s fitting that the San Francisco Public Library was the catalyst for Irena Eide\u2019s Little Folkies project. The public library and the folk music tradition have a lot in common. Both are community-based cultural and learning institutions, and each has a children\u2019s section. \u201cI was getting CDs and songbooks at the library, by people like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Ella Jenkins, and I\u2019d take them back to the kids I was babysitting and nannying,\u201d Eide recalls. \u201cAnd when I started teaching music to kids, I got even more into this huge, amazing canon of American folk music for kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eide took that passion and created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlefolkies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Little Folkies<\/a>, a music program that aims to get young kids engaged with folk music. The Little Folkies curriculum is seasonal; and a <a href=\"https:\/\/littlefolkies.bandcamp.com\/music\">four-volume set<\/a>, <em>Songs for Fall, Songs For Winter, Songs for Spring, and Songs for Summer<\/em> is out now on Smithsonian Folkways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/littlefolkies.bandcamp.com\/music\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"871\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/littlefolkies-songs-for-all-seasons.jpg?resize=900%2C871&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/littlefolkies-songs-for-all-seasons.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/littlefolkies-songs-for-all-seasons.jpg?resize=500%2C484&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/littlefolkies-songs-for-all-seasons.jpg?resize=768%2C743&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/littlefolkies-songs-for-all-seasons.jpg?resize=300%2C290&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We caught up with Eide to hear some music (\u201cWise Old Owl\u201d and \u201cLula Gal\u201d) and learn more about the origins of the project and the musical lives fostered by Little Folkies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eide also performs non-children\u2019s music in the band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainyeyesmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rainy Eyes<\/a>, and she was kind enough to play the title track from their latest record,<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46zRjVC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lonesome Highway<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Folkies, a music program that aims to get young kids engaged with folk music, is the passion project of singer-songwriter Irena Eide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Little Folkies, a music program that aims to get young kids engaged with folk music, is the passion project of singer-songwriter Irina Eide.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1529],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1542],"class_list":["post-148651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folk-guitar-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/small_IRENA-LITTLE-FOLIES.00_00_33_01.Still002-copy.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":1542,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"joeystringletter-com","display_name":"Joey Lusterman","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d62788a8fb3719a625c95a649fc05b0d673d8921c9f2491f0a36cc588ee3c452?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Lusterman","first_name":"Joey","job_title":"","description":"Opinionated creative slash beginning guitarist. 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