Everything's Folked Up
Folking The Unfolkable
This isn’t your grandfather’s folk music. The improvisational duo, “Everything’s Folked Up” (JD Gardiner and Chauncey Canfield) reimagines chart-toppers and underground anthems using folk textures from button-box accordion and mandolin.
They don’t so much “cover” songs as transform them, taking melodies, rhythms, and emotions and forge them into something that's new, yet familiar.
The pair plays untold hundreds of tunes by ear, and no artist or era is off-limits. Spontaneity is central to their act – audiences can make requests or spin the “Wheel of Destiny” to determine the next tune.
Drawing from their decades of wildly-eclectic music tastes,they love finding unexpected kinship between genres, building a bridge between tradition and modernity while introducing audiences to songs from other generations
They host a weekly residence at BenBear's Beers in SE Portland every Monday night from 7-10pm.