Modern folk duo Friction Farm performs their new album "Stone By Stone" for the first time in public!
With the release of “Stone By Stone” Friction Farm lives up to their name, nurturing strong and beautiful songs from the creative fertile ground of a troubled world.
From the anthemic, Phil Ochs inspired, opener “Louder Than A Gun” to the happy folk-pop “Spread A Little Sunshine” Friction Farm calls on listeners to participate. Not only to sing along, but also to take bold and compassionate action. In Every Drop Of Rain, and American Dream they ask us to face the harder truths that life's inequities are often by intention. But, as in Everything Will Be All Right, Friction Farm always delivers a road map to higher ground.
Friction Farm's previous album was released one year after covid gave the world a time out. Christine and Aidan scratched the hard ground and found Evidence of Hope in small and mundane things during those days. As the world rebounded, prospects seemed ripe for joyful, exuberant songs. But the never ending storm clouds of American politics gathered. The foundations of our institutions, which we had believed were built of stone, turned out to be made of sand. Rather than look for hope, Friction Farm planted seeds of hope. Seeds of action, of community, and of faith in one another.
He’s from Berkeley CA, she’s from Woodstock NY. With their roots in places so rich in social activism and history, it was inevitable that these two would meet while studying materials engineering and geology. Eventually they got around to music and for two decades Friction Farm has traveled the world singing songs filled with story telling, social commentary and humor. Aidan Quinn and Christine Stay, believe in the uplifting power of song, the power of the people, and the miraculous wonder of everyday life. They have toured across the US and internationally, been Kerrville New Folk Finalists, Falcon Ridge Emerging Artists, and South Florida Folk Festival Songwriter winners.