Rise Up Singing: The Teaching Discs

People often ask us how they can learn the tunes to all the songs you don't know in Rise Up Singing. The best way is to learn them from others. (See the webpage of singalongs.) Another great way is to buy CDs and songbooks from the artists who wrote the songs.

To help people learn the tunes in the book, Annie spent 3 years recording every song in the songbook. The result is the Rise Up Singing Teaching Discs - an easy way to learn any song in Rise Up Singing.

These "Teaching Discs" contain the tunes to all the songs in a given chapter, in the same order as they appear in the songbook. Each track is a simple voice with instrumental accompaniment of each song. These renditions are easy to follow. In the case of longer songs, the track will not include all the verses to the song - but tracks always include every part of the song you need to learn it (includiing introductions, bridges and other significant variations in the melody).

Each CD covers either one or (in most cases) two chapters from Rise Up Singing.
More info on these teachng discs


These CDs list for $15 but we sell them for the discounted price of $12 each - or:
You can buy all 20 CDs (which includes all 35 chapters & 1200 songs in the book!) for $200.

Buy them all! - $200

Entire Teaching Disc series (covers all 35 chapters in Rise Up Singing)

Order individual Teaching Discs below for $12 each.
The chapter(s) covered on each disc are indicated.

A: America / Golden Oldies


B: Ballads & Old Songs / Hard Times & Blues


C: City / Rich & Poor


D: Dreams & Fantasies / Funny Songs


E: Ecology / Outdoors


F: Faith (only)


G: Gospel (only)


H: Home & Family / Lullabies


J: Freedom / Struggle


K: Friendship / Play


L: Love (only)


M: Mountain Voices / Farm & Prairie


O: Hope / Sacred Rounds & Chants


P: Peace / Creativity


R: Rounds / Spirituals


S: Seas / Good times


T: Time & Changes (only)


U: Unity / Women


W: Work (only)


Y: Men / Travelin'

20th Anniversary (yes - Rise Up Singing is 20 years old!) Singalong Concerts & Workshops

Sat, April 13th, Storrs CT at Storrs Friends Meetinghouse. For more information contact: Judith Hyde

Sat., April 25th, Mansfield MA New England Folk Festival (NEFFA.)

June 22-28, Barnesville OH Quakercamp at Stillwater.

Aug. 15-17, Ben Lomond CA Group singing workshop at Quaker Center.

Sun., Aug. 17th, Santa Cruz CA Sing-along concert at Santa Cruz Friends Meetinghouse. For details contact Gretta & Jacob Stone, (831) 336-8333

Swing performances Annie is doing with the

O-Tones

Thurs, Feb 14th (Valentine's Day!), Florence MA "Music in the House" series at the Garden House in Look Park 7-10pm. 413-584-222

We urge you to check out the new website

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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