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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This past June, over 80 Friends from 17 yearly meetings came together in Barnesville, Ohio, to share their deepest experiences and longings regarding their Quaker faith. This gathering included 2 components:
 June 22-24: "YFNA / WGYF: Past, Present & Future"
Reunion & Envisioning a Future YF Movement
This weekend brought together past, present & future young adult Friends to share stories, ways these gatherings affected their lives, plans & visions for the future.
June 24-29: "QuakerCamp at Stillwater"
Following the reunion, Friends hungry for spiritual community came together for 5 days of worship, worship sharing and discernment. Here is a description of last year's Quakercamp daily schedule.
Gathering epistles, accounts, talks & queries
 Friends gathered this week in Barnesville last year wrote an Epistle from Quakercamp at Stillwater describing their sense of deep joy & excitement about what occurred there.
A separate Epistle from Young Adult Friends was also written concerning the work that YAFs there were doing to envision and build a new movement for YAFs in the US & Canada. For more about YAFs, go to YAFs at Quakercamp
An article by Pamela Haines describing this gathering in more detail appeared in Friends Journal in December 2007.
You can also read Micah Bales' reflections on his experience in Barnesville this week. Micah is an ESR student and a member of Great Plains YM (FUM).
 Those of us present were deeply moved by presentations each evening by Conservative Friends on their own experience of their Quaker faith. 2 of these presentations are posted here:
Susan Smith on Friends Business Meeting, as Conservative Friends Experience It
Jack Smith on The Scriptures as Understood & Used by Conservative Friends and
An interest group developed a set of Queries on Confidentiality & Openness that may be useful to elders, gathering planners and others needed to discern the right balance between these two important needs within a faith community.
For a list of who took part in these gatherings, click on Quakercamp Participants.
Another similar gathering will be held in Barnesville on June 22-28, 2008. Here are links to the flyer and registration information for this coming June's gathering.
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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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