Music Store:
NEW CD! "Mountain Side"
Personal Favorites from Rise Up Singing
"Meet Me by the Moonlight"
Where Have All the Flowers Gone:
A Singalong Memoir - new edition!
including live recordings of his Solstice celebrations heard on NPR
NY Times article "Shared Song - Communal Memory" talks about Annie & Peter, the origins of Rise Up Singing & ways it's being used in singalong around the country.
So, what are Quakers? (And do they even sing???!!!)
Peter's Quakerism writings have been moved to a new website: InwardLight.org
Information on Quaker Spring has been moved to a new website:QuakerSpring.org
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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
WFCR interview with Peter and Annie. Hear us talk about sing-alongs and the origins of Rise Up Singing with live performances of several favorite songs. New York NY, Sat. May 5 - People's Voice Cafe, Community Church of NY, 40 E. 35th St (betw Madison & Park), 8pm (doors open 7:30). Annie & Peter will lead a sing along and Four Shillings Short is also on the bill later this evening. 212-787-3903. Newton MA. Sun. May 13 - Mother's Day family concert, 2pm at Newton Cultural Center, 225 Nevada Street. Benefit for Mother's Milk Bank of New England. You can buy tickets online at the MMBNE website, call 617-527-6283 or view the concert flyer.
Kingston RI, Fri. July 6 - We will be taking part in another performance of "The Fire & the Hammer" - which Peter organized & we both took part in at New England Yearly Meeting last August. The final evening plenary of the 2012 Friends General Conference summer gathering. Detailed information on the performance & how to apply to join the choir is posted now on the FGC website.
See also swing performances Annie is doing with:
GIRLS FROM MARS 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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