About This Song
About "Les canuts" by Francesca Solleville
Francesca Solleville's 'Les canuts' is a ragged, proud hymn for the silk workers of Lyon—a history lesson sung with clenched fists. The melody carries the weight of looms and lost strikes, and the tension is between the tenderness of the tune and the fury of its memory. Folk as a picket line, voice as a banner.
