Hi Ridge,
I hope the answer to your first question is an enthusiastic yes! I'm always looking for that same category of songs and would love to see the titles of the songs you've encountered recently. I can also think about my own short list so I can share it. Earlier this month, I got Matt Watroba's new CD of silly Si Kahn songs, which has a bunch of simple chorus songs that I'm planning to try out when song leading (see https://www.mattwatroba.net/).
Since this is my first post, here's my quick intro: I grew up in the DC area attending my parents' and their friends' frequent singalongs. Starting in the late 1990s, I joined Peter Blood and Annie Patterson's volunteer team selecting songs for Rise Again. I now live in Claremont, California, outside LA. I too do a modest amount amount of song leading, in addition to a greater amount of time doing contra and community dance calling. My standing songleading commitment is during the summer, when I spend time in Woods Hole, Mass. and am in my tenth year leading a weekly community folksinging series that's run continuously each summer since the late 1950s and thus has a nice multigenerational group of attendees, some of whom have been coming for 60 years.
Jeremy, in Claremont CA
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Subject: [SongOrganizers] Chorus Song Repertoire
Dear All,
Two questions, I guess.
You don't talk a lot about repertoire in the list vision, etc. I do a modest amount of song leading. I am always looking for new, interesting songs that have good chorus singing opportunities, but without word books and song sheets, etc. Songs you don't find in Rise Up Singing, either. I can share the titles of a few I've encountered recently that fit the criteria.
Is that a topic within your boundaries for discussion?
If above is answered affirmatively, I would continue: Got any good ones to suggest?
Thanks,
Ridge (in New Joisey)
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Dear All,
Two questions, I guess.
You don't talk a lot about repertoire in the list vision, etc. I do a modest amount of song leading. I am always looking for new, interesting songs that have good chorus singing opportunities, but without word books and song sheets, etc. Songs you don't find in Rise Up Singing, either. I can share the titles of a few I've encountered recently that fit the criteria.
Is that a topic within your boundaries for discussion?
If above is answered affirmatively, I would continue: Got any good ones to suggest?
Thanks,
Ridge (in New Joisey)
There are still spots to sign up for remote participation in this event to raise awareness of women folklorists! Please consider joining this community event to honor the women who saved the songs we sing.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/american-folklife-centers-wikipedia-edit-a-tho…
If you need some ideas, Chris Setari, Lynn Feingold and I are doing a workshop on this topic at NEFFA in April. Here is the work in progress website we’re preparing, which I hope will someday be a resource on the CDSS portal.
https://sites.google.com/view/womensongcatchers
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