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NEW CD! "Mountain Side"
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"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

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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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Rise Up Singing:

Conceived, developed & edited
by Peter Blood & Annie Patterson

Introduction by Pete Seeger

Spiral-bound 7×10 songbook $19.95

(list price $22.95)



Words, guitar chords & sources to 1200 songs (only about 1 1/2 cents per song) All the songs you need for years of great singing! New "15th Anniversary Edition" has many corrections and a much easier to read index.

This edition also includes codes under each song that identify which teaching disk and track each song is recorded on. Go to Rise Up Singing: Teaching Discs for more information on these.



Some brief reviews of Rise Up Singing

Paperback copies are also available for only $10 each.


Discounts for quantity orders:

Buy 5 copies for $16.95/copy: $84.75.


Buy 10 copies for $14.95/copy: $149.50.


Always running out of copies of the book? Have you considered buying Rise Up Singing by the box? Cartons of 30 books are only $12/copy--nearly 50% off of the list price!
The books make a terrific fundraiser. Most people find they go through a box really quickly, especially if you use them for sing-alongs. Some groups buy a carton & sell half the copies at full price & keep the other 15 copies for use by their group.

Buy a full carton of 30 copies for $12/copy:  $360.00.


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.


New York NY, Sat. May 5 - People's Voice Cafe, Community Church of NY, 40 E. 35th St (betw Madison & Park), 8pm (doors open 7:30). Annie & Peter will lead a sing along and Four Shillings Short is also on the bill later this evening.  212-787-3903.

Newton MA. Sun. May 13 - Mother's Day family concert, 2pm at Newton Cultural Center, 225 Nevada Street.  Benefit for Mother's Milk Bank of New England. You can buy tickets online at the MMBNE website, call 617-527-6283 or view the concert flyer.

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 & how to apply to join the choir is posted now 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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