Debe Dalton has been a passionate maker of music since childhood and has traveled a long journey through New York’s landscape of sonic self-expression. Along the way she was an active participant in the folk revival of the 1960s and ’70s and became a serious student of claw hammer banjo. Yet it wasn’t until she [...]

    Winter Antifolk Festival 2011 At The Sidewalk Cafe, New York City By the mid-1980s, New York’s downtown folk music scene was still simmering along at clubs like Folk City. Around that time a new wave of younger performers, influenced as much by the Sex Pistols as Woody Guthrie, stormed into the open mics. [...]