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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 Annie has sung for over 20 years with a voal Swing trio that also includes Wendi Bourne and Lauren Jansen (prev. Bono). The band was first known as Big Nite Out and later became Girls from Mars. They have performed widely at swing dances, music festivals, weddings, clubs and Augusta Heritage Festival.
Hep Cat Holiday is the trio's first recording. It is more acoustic than The Savage In Me, and contains more of the Cats N the Fiddle songs featured on Planet Swing. There are 2 original swing tunes on this recording, as well as a Carribean number! Personel includes: Wendi, Annie, and Lauren, Jeff Sarli on bass, Tom Mitchell on guitar, plus a few side musicians on trumpet and piano. A very energetic, fun recording! Available on cassette only.
The recording is available on cassette. $5.00.
Song list
1. Hep Cat Holiday - Herbie Miles
2. Vote for Mister Rhythm - Ella Fitzgerald
3. Gumbe - from Ronny Butler
4. When I Get Low, I Get High - Marion Sunsine
5. Chasing Shadows -
6. I'm Singin' - Tiny Grimes
7. Everybody Loves My Baby - from Fats Waller
8. Nothin' - from Cat's & the Fiddle
9. Rhythm Town - Wendi Bourne
10. Tell Me Where It Is - June Drucker
11. Caffine - Weindi Bourne
For more information on Girls from Mars / Big Nite Out, see their website.
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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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