Music Store:
new large format RUS!
"Meet Me by the Moonlight"
including live recordings of his Solstice celebrations heard on NPR
NY Times article on "Shared Song - Communal Memory".
Information on Quakercamp at Stillwater has been moved to a new website:
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Pete Seeger released 28 songs and stories about animals on 2 short LP records in 1955 to an enthusiastic audience. Ever since, they have been sung by generations of parents, grandparents & children. These 2 original LP's have been combined on this single Smithsonian Folkways CD creating a wonderful collection of songs to sing along with, to draw pictures about, to play hand games to, and to be enjoyed by the entire family.
Songs include: The Foolish Frog, I Had a Rooster, The Fox, Cumberland Mountain Bear Hunt, Old Blue, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, The Darby Ram and more than 20 more.
Songlist:
1. Fly Through My Window
2. I Had a Rooster
3. Come All You Bold Sailormen
4. Old Gray Mule
5. Alligator, Hedgehog
6. The Frog
7. Raccoon's Got a Bushy Tail
8. I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
9. Ground Hog
10. Mister Rabbit
11. The Gray Goose
12. The Teency Weency Spider
13. The Old Hen
14. Skip to My Lou
15. My Little Kitty
16. The Little Black Bull
17. Leatherwing Bat
18. The Keeper and the Doe
19. The Darby Ram
20. Mole in the Ground
21. The Fox
22. Turtle Dove
23. I Ride an Old Paint
24. The Elephant
25. The Foolish Frog
26. Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
27. Cumberland Mountain Bear Hunt
28. Old Blue
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UPCOMING EVENTS & WORKSHOPS with Annie & Peter
Sat. Aug 7-Th Aug. 9 - Smithfield RI New England Yearly Meeting annual sessions. As "Sessions Peacemakers" this year, we will be doing programs with all age groups, including a concert Tuesday evening on the theme "Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land".
Sat. Sept 18 - Ithaca NY Singalong Concert. 7pm at St Paul's Methodist church, 402 N. Aurora Street. For info contact Melody Johnson (807) 272-8755. Benefit for Ithaca Friends Meeting.
Sun. Oct 3 - Philadelphia PA Singalong Concert with John McCutcheon & others celebrating Rise Up Singing. 3pm at 1st Unitarian-Universalist Church, 2125 Chestnut St. Benefit for Sing Out Corp.
Sat. Oct. 23rd - Northampton MA Singalong Concert 7:30pm at Northampton Friends Meetinghouse, 43 Center Street. For more info contact: Dick & Kathleen Konicek-Moran.
See also swing performances Annie is doing with the
GIRLS FROM MARS
Mon, July 12 - Hatfield PA 6-8pm Hatfield Musicfest - free!
and The O-TONES
promoting efforts to secure a Nobel Peace Prize for legendary folk singer & environmental & peace activist, Pete Seeger. A new edition of Seeger's autobiography (which Peter edited) is coming out this spring.
There are some great quotes from Pete on the power of group singing in the recent New York Times article on community sings around the country, many of which use Rise Up Singing.
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