FAITH PETRIC: When did We Have Sauerkraut

Faith Petric

When did We Have Sauerkraut

© 1999 Faith Petric

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Faith is known as "The Fort Knox of Folk Music."

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Faith Craig Petric was born on September 13, 1915 in a log cabin on a homestead near the Clearwater River in Northern Idaho. She's the youngest of four children, all born in that same cabin, which was built from trees cut on homestead land.
"When did you start singing?" she is often asked. "There never was a time I remember that I didn't sing", says Faith. "First it was in church. My father, in addition to being a schoolteacher, carpenter, farmer, and inventor, was a Methodist minister, and he had a fine tenor voice. Church consisted of lots of singing, and I still sing hymns I learned at age five and younger. Hymns have wonderful opportunities for harmonies, almost as good as sea shanties, I think.
"We had an old pump organ at home, and later a piano, and we would sing ‘Juanita’, ‘Old Oaken Bucket’, ‘When You and I were Young’, and many, many such treasures. In the mid-20s, my brother Glenn and I somehow found cowboy songs and memorized these along with ‘Abdullah Bulbul Ameer’, which we would act out with great wooden swords. In high school and college I sang in glee clubs, and then in the1930s, I found the great songs of the Spanish civil War, and radical, union, and topical songs of all kinds.”
Shortly after retiring form her 9-to-5 job in 1970 at age 55, Faith and 14 friends formed the Portable Folk Festival and toured the country for three months. She say she was “bit by the bug”, and became a traveling folk musician, working festivals and folk clubs across the United States and into Canada, with forays to the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark. And she’s still at it, singing traditional, contemporary, topical, labour, radical, and outrageous song—any songs with a tune or special meaning that appeals—wherever she goes.

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  • Gret Fun
    author: Barb Bechdol

    These songs are abot every-daay things --providing food for your kids, cleang out the frige, dealing with home repairmen, history, afterlife, saving lives, destiny --outrageouly. Enjoy!

  • author: Karen Newman

    If you believe that laughter is the best medicine, you NEED TWO of this CD...one to play and one for your medicine cabinet.

  • Excellent. Made me laugh and feel good to hear Faith's voice & right-on lyrics.
    author: Patricia

    This CD has the most right-on songs, the kind to get your toes tapping and your head nodding and saying "so true...so right" Some are so funny, you'll laugh outloud. I'm ordering some for gifts because I know that my friends will love this album and they'll think that I am so clever for having ordered it. My very best to Faith; may she enjoy happiness and good health always.

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