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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The Recipe for Some Great Singing:
#1. Highly experienced lively songleaders. We have been leading sing-alongs concerts for literally hundreds of Friends Meetings, churches, conferences, camps, schools, folk music societies, coffeehouses, festivals, and private parties over the years. It is an honor and blessing to see songs in a gathered group rise up stronger and stronger til they fill a room to overflowing!
The usual format for our concerts is to set up a sound system, pass out copies of Rise Up Singing to the audience and spend an evening of community-building, empowerment, and singing up a storm. The folks who set these up are not necessarily experienced concert-organizers (we help out with lots of practical tips) but find it a fun way to deepen the bonds of community within their group, do outreach to the surrounding community and/or to raise funds for a project they believe in. We do this work under a “minute” from our local Friends meeting.
In addition to our regular singalong concerts we've been enjoying leading music workshops, retreats, and concert/lectures. These have included weekend retreats on the role of song in our journey to God and programs at a number of schools focusing on specific themes (peace, the environment, labor, US history, etc.)
#2. Great song collections. Over the years we began to carry around with us some of the songbooks and recordings which have inspired us the most. We keep finding new items we want add to this “traveling music store”! Everything in it carries our heartfelt personal endorsement! (Personal all-time favorites are marked with a “?“.) Feel free to inquire about specifics such as the kind of music that might appeal to a particular child or be useful in working with a particular project.
Thankyou for your support of our work!
If we can be of any help to you please write us at:
PO Box 103, Cheyney PA 19319, call us at (610) 399-6764
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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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