r/folk

A talented singer-songwriter and mandolinist based in Burlington, VT who definitely needs more listeners

I've had a really hard time finding a good collection of Folk Music, I've tried to put together some of my favorites, across multiple era's and languages. Please give it a listen, and a like if you enjoy!

While he looks to you, O God, he forgets himself.

While he looks at himself, O God, he forgets you.

How shall a man learn to know himself and you?

Listen, O Vema, dear to the Lord of all

Art saved my life. To return the favor, I built www.NewBohemia.art - a first-of-its-kind human-only creative community. Artistic expression was my escape from an abusive home, my self-therapy, my craft, my North star. But in February 2022 with the advent of generative AI, I assumed it was all over, or at least the beginning of the end.

I descended into a soulcrushing yearlong depression and watched as things only got predictably worse. (Suno, etc..) However, the desire to create never left me. In fact, it only grew. After spending enough time in darkness, I decided to pick myself up, dust myself off and fight. Over the course of 6 months, I built this platform.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but this was a real labor of love.

Living up to its name, it has a warm, inviting arthouse aesthetic and an intensive verification system to ensure a genuine, human space for creatives of all mediums.

There’s a community chat lounge, group and private inboxes, business inquiry profile button for potential clientele/commissions individual creative medium labels, embedded verification stamps for sharing, uploads for all mediums (images, writing, music, photography, film, stand-up comedy, sculptors and multimedia), noncreative accounts, likes, comments, reporting, a galleria par excellence, and an extensive anti-AI monitoring apparatus.

If you are sick of seeing nonstop clankerslop online and tired of wondering if your hard work, passion and god-given talent will ever be falsely accused of being similarly synthetic, then yep, this is exactly the right place for you.

If you are an aspiring artist of any kind who wants to participate in the early days of a revolutionary new platform for the kind of instant exposure you won't get on more established older ones, then this is exactly the right place for you.

We also boast an exciting feature where the gallery page will show 3 random works from our entire gallery at the topmast with every refresh, thereby guaranteeing constant daily exposure for literally every creative on our platform.

We also just added a Forum with full bohemian-aesthetic design, threads, replies - an old school internet throwback. Literally released over the last few days! :)

To sum it up; It’s free, it’s human-only, and it exists so real creatives finally have a community they can truly call home.

P.S., we are data-safe with legally binding protections for artists that explicitly prohibit scraping, automated data collection, and are unable to sell or license your work to third parties. AI training on your content is explicitly prohibited under our Terms of Service. All artwork served through access-controlled, time-limited links, plus rate limits and anti-scrape monitoring. For any other questions, concerns or if you just want the full infodump on our verification process, legal policies, my personal backstory or our general approach on keeping the site AI-free as humanly possible, please visit:

 www.newbohemia.art/faq

 www.newbohemia.art/about

(Adults 18+ only.)

And If you want to share your art in our rapidly growing, unique, human-only creativity platform, please head over to-

 www.newbohemia.art/signup