Host and series creator Sonny Ochs and co-host Ron Olesko engage in conversation with three beloved "elders" from the folk community. This month's conversation features three international artists who have used their musical talents to make social impacts in their native countries.

Martyn Joseph - 2023 is Martyn’s 41st year in the business, and started with him being part of BBC Radio 2’s “21st Century Folk “ project, with his song “Albert’s Place”. In his career, he has recorded 33 albums, over a half a million record sales and thousands of live performances. His critically acclaimed 2021 record, “1960” was made Folk Album of The Month in Mojo and awarded 4 starts by Uncut, and remained in the UK Official Folk charts for much of 2022. In April 2019 he won a “Wales Folk Award” for “Here Come the Young”, and in 2023 he was nominated for Best Solo Artist. Martyn is also founder, along with his wife Justine, of the “Let Yourself Trust”. LYT works alongside Martyn’s music to help give profile to and fund Grassroots organizations across the globe. They have given away over half a million pounds to 14 different projects in the last 8 years.

Sharon Katz - Singer, songwriter, activist. Sharon grew up in apartheid South Africa where she had to sneak out to illegally enter “black only” townships to experience the music and culture which would influence her career as an artist and activist. She made history by breaking through Apartheid's barriers to form a 500-voice multi-cultural choir and took the group and her band on tour aboard the Peace Train to promote Nelson Mandela's vision of a non-racial South Africa. In addition to her work as a musician, Sharon works in schools and shelters across the border region of California and Mexico to assist migrant children and women rescued from trafficking rings.

Maurie Mulheron - For over 40 years, Maurie has been performing traditional and contemporary Australian folk songs in folk clubs, festivals, theatre shows and concerts in Australia and overseas. Maurie created a two-hour musical biography of Pete Seeger, “One Word…WE!", that played to packed theatres and folk festivals across Australia. Maurie is also teacher and principal with 34 years of experience teaching in public high schools in rural, regional and metropolitan New South Wales (NSW), Australia. From 2012-2020, he served as President of the NSW Teachers Federation.