Noah C. Lekas

Noah C. Lekas is a writer and folk singer originally from Racine, WI. Carrying on the tradition of labor singers, folk poets and worker-writers, his first book, Saturday Night Sage: 42 Poems of Mysticism and Menial Labor was published by Blind Owl Records in 2019.The collection was praised by Pank Magazine as "Spiritual and strange...and tied to contemporary America in ways that cut to the heart of what the country is and has suffered." The book was accompanied by an EP entitled, Sounds From the Shadow Factory, which featured psych legends Howlin' Rain, labelmates Mrs. Henry and others.

Premiering on David Fricke's Writer's Block radio show, the legendary Rolling Stone editor described the album as "Poetry and psychedelia, as if Tom Waits had hitched a ride on the Jefferson Airplane’s version of Wooden Ships."

A series of short films were also created, bringing the work to life on film festival screens from New York City to Los Angeles. With a new record, The Flowers of Perennial Dissent slated for a 2026 release on Blind Owl, Lekas, as Third Coast Review put it, continues to "Tell of the struggles of working-class laborers through poems equally acerbic and transcendental.“