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Rise Up Singing: The Teaching Discs

Annie Patterson recordings

NEW CD! "Mountain Side"
Personal Favorites from Rise Up Singing

"Meet Me by the Moonlight"

Pete Seeger Autobiography

Where Have All the Flowers Gone:
A Singalong Memoir - new edition!

Pete Seeger CDs

Pete Seeger's Life & Work

Paul Winter CDs

including live recordings of his Solstice celebrations heard on NPR

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Annie & Peter Bios

Singalongs & Song Circles

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.

Directory of Quaker Musicians

Other Music Websites

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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AFM Local 1000 is the Traveling Musicians local of the American Federation of Musicians. This union local provides support for musicians through a pension fund, inexpensive instrument insurance and insuring that employers treat folk musicians fairly and honor their agreements. A good number of the leading folk artists in this country are members of this local. We are proud to be members too!

Appleseed Recordings is a label specially devoted to music that promotes social justice. The label was launched with the double CD "Where Have All the Flowers Gone: Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 1" (see the Seeger webpage on this site). We sell many of Appleseed's recordings including CDs by Charlie King & Karen Brandow, Eric Anderson and Kim & Reggie Harris. Appleseed is based around the corner from us in West Chester PA and ably run by our friend Jim Musselman. Jim has done a terrific job of championing and strengthening politically-conscious folk music in this country.

People's Music Network holds biannual gatherings in the Northeast where musicians devoted to creating a strong and enduring musical culture that empowers grassroots music and is committed to a just and peaceful and environmentally sound world can meet, network, and nurture this critical arm of the larger movement for a better world.

Sing Out is the nonpofit organization that publishes Rise Up Singing & the Teaching Disks. They also publish a terrific quarterly magazine, have a terrific resource center located in Bethlehem PA.and publishes Legacy Books. Sing Out was founded in 1950 by Pete Seeger. We urge you to consider joining Sing Out as a way of supporting folk music and folk musicians.

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


nobelprize4pete

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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