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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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by Annie Patterson
A great collection of traditional folk songs, ballads, and composed songs, that weave together themes of healing, courage and love.
$15.00.
Song List
1. Meet Me by the Moonlight
2. Pastures of Plenty
3. The Cruel War
4. Red Rockin' Chair
5. Who's Gonna' Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?
6. Rock of Ages
7. Shady Grove
8. Bonnie Light Horseman
9. Now Is the Cool of the Day
10. The Pale Ring
11. Safe from Harm (Fear A' Bhata)
12. The Christmas Lullaby (Watts' Cradle Song)
13. Bright Morning Stars
14. The Creation of Eä
The Stories
Meet Me by the Moonlight is a traditional folksong that Annie has adapted and changed to include new music and a more upbeat story line. This ballad is a conversation between two lovers, one of whom is about to go to sea.
On Safe from Harm, Annie has written new words to the traditional celtic ballad "Fear A'Bhata". She wrote this song as a lullaby for children facing violence and terror in our world today. In 2002 many children were afraid to go to sleep because of sniper attacks in the D.C. area. It is dedicated to one of her nieces who lived in the DC area during that period.
The Patterson family farm, in McConnellsburg, PA, was the site of the last Confederate bivouac. This family history inspired Annie's interpretation of the Civil War song, Cruel War.
Annie stays with this war theme with the a' capella lament, Bonnie Light Horseman; the words were written during the Napoleonic Wars to a much older Irish melody.
Being true to her love of old timey music, Annie plays her Washburn banjo on Shady Grove and Red Rocking Chair, two favorite tunes that she learned when she was in college in Pittsburgh, PA.
Two more tunes from the Appalachian Mountains include a relatively unknown version of Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? collected by John Jacob Niles and a lovely version of Watts' Cradle Song that Annie originally learned from a recording by Doc Watson.
Also included is a fresh rendering of Woody Guthrie's classic, Pastures of Plenty, Jean Ritchie's haunting plea to care for the earth, Now Is the Cool of the Day (based on Chapter 3 of Genesis), and an unusually tender Child ballad called The Pale Ring.
The album concludes with a beautiful round taught to us by the talented composer Ben Newman during a workshop we led at Pendle Hill. It is setting of the poem Creation of Eä from Ursula LeGuin's well-known fantasy novel A Wizard of Earthsea:
Only in silence, the word
Only in darkness, light
Only in dying life
Bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
Words by Ursula K. LeGuin, from "A Wizard of Earthsea" copyright © 1968 by Ursula K. LeGuin; used by permission of the author and the author's agent, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc. (You can hear some of Ben's other songs at his website.)
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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. Northampton, MA Sat. Jan. 21 10am - 1pm NoHo Winter Farmer's Market, located in Thorne's basement. Annie Patterson & Mary Witt perform folk & Americana.
Easthampton MA Fri. Feb. 3rd - The Mic @ The Delaney House - Annie's 3-part harmony group, The Harmony Grits, will perform 7-11pm, Mary Witt, Dan Zuckergood, and Annie Patterson (guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass - Americana & Folk music)
Leverett MA Sat. Feb. 4th - No Nukes Benefit Concert & Speak Out. Leverett Town Hall, 9 Montague Rd, 2-9pm. Annie will sing 4 songs at 5:30pm. Info from Ann Ferguson 413-367-2310.
New York NY, Sat. May 5 - People's Voice Cafe, Community Church of NY, 40 E. 35th St (betw Madison & Park), 7pm. Annie & Peter will lead a sing along and Four Shillings Short is also on the bill this evening. 212-787-3903. 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 & applying to join the choir will be posted later 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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