Seattle Labor Chorus
Seattle Labor Chorus
Seattle Labor Chorus: Links
- Rebel Voices
- Our director, Janet Stecher, sings with Susan Lewis in this duo.
- Northwest Folklife Festival
- This is the venue where we first sang with Pete Seeger in 1997, and we return every year.
Other Labor Choruses
- SF Bay Area Labor Heritage / Rockin' Solidarity Chorus
- The Bay area's labor chorus, directed by Pat Wright
- New York City Labor Chorus
- Geoffrey Fairweather, director of the New York City Labor Chorus at the time of our formation, directed us in our first performance.
- Solidarity Notes
- Vancouver, BC's labor chorus, directed by Earle Peach. We have appeared with the Solidarity notes at the Blaine Peace Arch and at other venues and use some of their arrangements
- DC Labor Chorus
- Washington, DC's labor chorus
- Fruit of Labor Singing Ensemble
- A six-member group from North Carolina
- Brooklyn Women's Chorus
- A no- audition chorus led by Bev Grant with a strongly pro-labor repertoire
Artists we love
- Anne Feeney
- Anne has worked tirelessly in support of the labor and social justice movements for YEARS in many, many ways, but mostly by writing and singing great songs.
- The U. Utah Phillips Appreciation and Information site.
- We have appeared in performance with Utah. If you haven't heard him, you should!
- Si Kahn
- Si sang with us in December of 2006 during a rare appearance in the Northwest. We do a version of his "Power in the Union". Besides being a singer and songwriter Si works for Grassroots leadership.
- ET and the Boy
- A clever and cheerfully subversive artist from Portland
- Clallam Couny
- Seattle's Slowest Rising Folk Group- playing original, traditional and delusional folk music and featuring our own Jim Douglas
- Emma's revolution
- Pat Humphries and Sandy O singing for change
- The Whateverly Brothers
- Our own Dan Roberts is 1/3 of this eclectic and goofy group.
- Jon Fromer
- Jon's song "One in the Number" is one of our favorites, full of the joy of resistance.
- Roy Zimmerman
- "Funny songs about war, ignorance, and greed"
- Bold Horizon
- One of our basses, Dan Roberts, sings and plays in this trio.
- Charlie King and Karen Brandow
- We've appeared with Charlie and Karen and sing several of their songs.
- The Prince Myshkins
- These satirists are much to clever for their accordion.
other links
- Labor Heritage Foundation
- A source for information on much more labor art
- music from american unions
- A collection of US labor songs
- Unionsong
- A huge number of union and political songs, from "Solidarity Forever" to "Smart bombs, Dumb Politicians"- many with audio files! Australian-focussed but international.
- Labor Notes
- One of our songs chosen as song of the month for this labor site
- Yes! magazine article
- An article about the importance and beauty of inclusive singing
- XPDNC Labour links
- A graphically challenging but thorough listing of labor musicians from around the world