A misleading title, it seems, taking no notice of such things as St. Woody Of Guthrie's "Sinking Of The Reuben James", "Round & Round Hitler's Grave", Talking Sailor", "Last Class Seaman" and the like from his time as a civillian and a member of the Merchant Marine during WWII. "This machine Kills Facists" was written on his guitar.

Or the songs written during and for the Spanish Civil War and The International Brigade.

Or the glorification of IRA "martyrs".

Or the...

You get the idea. A lot of Folkie Heroes would have fired, and maybe even did fire, at the right targets especially in WWII.

And where does the oral folk tradition still take place in its purest form and still create new songs daily, albeit mostly parodies? Among military personnel (and, of course, children on playgrounds) where new songs are being written and passed around as I speak. As much, if not more so than among a lot the amateurs and professionals who consciously consider themselves folksingers. There are a few collections of songs spawned within the Vietnam Era military available.

"Where have all..." Never mind.

My daughter, who's opposed to the current situation and administration, recently asked me if it wasn't basically the same as the Vietnam Era, and I told her that when I got back from 'Nam that I had no fear of attack from Vietnamese on the streets of the USA, that our present fight for daily survival has more enemies in the immediate vacinity from all sides, and having needlessly provoked the tiger by poking it, it won't cease being mad at us now or go away, even if we stop the war. I'm more at fear now in the current climate than I was then.

War breeds folk music from all directions.

Should the show have been better called "Folksingers At Anti-War", "Folksingers At War With The Current Wars" "The Anti-War Song Tradition Continues", or as SINSULL might suggest, "OFF"?

I have not seen it myself, so I can't judge, but I generally can take SINSULL at her word.