Young Friends of North America (YFNA) (QuakerSong)




Music Store: Rise Up Singing new large format RUS! Rise Up Singing: The Teaching Discs Annie Patterson CD "Meet Me by the Moonlight" Pete Seeger CD's Pete Seeger's Life & Work Paul Winter CDs including live recordings of his Solstice celebrations heard on NPR Ordering Information General Payments Annie & Peter Bios Singalongs NY Times article on "Shared Song - Communal Memory". Directory of Quaker Folk Musicians Other Music Websites Quakerism Information on Quakercamp at Stillwater has been moved to a new website: QuakerSpring.org Contact Us	Young Friends of North America (YFNA) We are helping to plan 2 exciting gatherings that are taking place back to back in Barnesville, Ohio, this coming June. Young Friends of North America was a fellowship of Young Adult Quakers aged 18-35 that existed between around 1955 and 1995 and which spanned the different branches of Friends. World Gathering of Young Friends in 1985 and 2005 continued this kind of powerful religious experience. These groups provided spiritual nurture for a generation of Quaker leaders. The Barnesville gathering will be both a reunion of people who were themselves (or who had loved ones who were) touched by YFNA & WGYF. It will also be an opportunity for Young Friends today to meet together to envision and build a similar movement today. Anyone is welcome regardless of age or degree of involvement in past, present or future Young Friends activities! This Reunion/Envisioning Weekend will be followed by an intergenerational and cross-branch "Quaker Camp" with lots of unprogrammed opportunities share and pray together on ways to deepen our lives in God. For a more detailed description of these 2 gatherings, click Quaker Camp info	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 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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