Protest in Harmony
Links to some other sites of interest
- Other political choirs and singing groups
- Songs and lyrics
- Musicians, singers and songwriters
- Campaigns we have supported
- Other organisations
Do please let us know if you have suggestions for other websites we should link to!
Other political choirs and singing groups:
- Sea Green Singers — an Oxford-based singing group of freedom and green songs. (The group is named after the colour of the ribbons worn by the Levellers, a radical movement within Cromwell's Model Army.)
- Loud and Proud is Edinburgh’s LGBT Choir. It provides a wonderful opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their friends to sing and socialise together.
- Strawberry Thieves political choir based in South-east London. Their site has words, sheet music and midi files for many of their songs.
- List of Scottish Community Song Groups
- Sangschule is a traditional song group based in Linlithgow, West Lothian. They welcome anybody who enjoys singing with others and who is interested in learning more about the Scottish musical tradition.
- National Street Choir Festival (formarly the Street Music Festival).
- Harmonise: Edinburgh-based choir.
- Wildfire is open to women of all ages and backgrounds who like or want to learn to sing in a collective group. We sing political songs, songs of struggle, peace and freedom as well as Scottish traditional material. Democratic decision making.
- Raised Voices: a London-based political choir of women and men.
- Sheffield Socialist Choir: with 60-80 members, they learn and sing songs which reflect the fight for freedom, human rights and justice around the world.
- Velvet Fist: London-based women’s choir.
- Côr Cochion Caerdydd (Cardiff Reds’ Choir) came together in 1983, when events in Chile, South Africa, and at home in Wales demanded that they use their voices in protest.
- Nottingham Clarion Choir: formed in 1988 as a result of a project of local musicians to make the vinyl album English Rebels, celebrating the radical traditions in British politics.
- Pink Singers: London's Lesbian and Gay Community Chorus.
- London Gay Mens Chorus: “Well worth Coming Out for”.
- Bristol Red Notes is a choir born out of a long tradition of using political songs to campaign for peace, justice, freedom and internationalism.
- Calder Valley Voices: World music songs, with social sensibilities. Gospel, African, East European.
- raging grannies
- Chechele: a singing group based in York.
Songs and lyrics:
- Songs For Change is a call to songwriters old and new to put into words and music their observations of what's going on in the world today; to write songs that reflect our times; indeed songs which have the power to change our world. This website is a forum for writers to submit their songs, listen to what others have created and to discuss music, politics etc on the forums.
- Songs with ‘an attitude’ about war and injustice. A list of recommended songs with discography compiled by Tony Kempster and Sue Gilmurray for use in education and campaigning. (On the Movement for the Abolition of War website.)
- LyricWiki is a free site which is a single source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads. Poke around, and if you see somewhere you can help, please chip in to add to the more than 233,898 songs on our site!
- Digital Tradition Folk Song Database: database containing the words and music to thousands of folk songs.
- Sing Out
- Songs for Environmental Education: Environmental songs! Environmental music! Nature songs! Earth songs!
- Union Songs: Rebel songs, slave songs, songs of freedom, work songs, songs of dissent, songs of struggle, protest songs. They are the work of famous poets as well as men and women whose names have been forgotten.
- Antiwar songs is a collection of over 3000 pacifist and antimilitarist songs from all over the world and of any time, based on free contributions by readers and collaborators. (commentary largely in Italian).
- The UNESCO-endorsed New Songs for Peace project is intended to encourage people to think about peace, talk about peace, and write a new song that we will collect and self-publish in a book.
Musicians, singers and songwriters:
- Holly Near
- Bold songs for peace: original songs by Timmon Milnwallis
- Touchwood: Sydney-based acoustic vocal trio
- Pat Humphries: writer of Peace, Salaam Shalom and Never Turning Back. Video clip of a concert (Pat Humphries singing at about 24 minutes into the clip).
- Holly Near
- Dick Gaughan: information about Dick Gaughan, a song library, a full discography with historical and biographical information, reviews, tour schedules, etc.
- Peggy Seeger
- Roy Bailey
- Woody Guthrie
- Paul Robeson
- Billy Bragg
- Judy Small
- Leon Rosselson
- Sweet Honey in the Rock
- Primrose Music: a capella arrangements of folk songs, barbershop, pagan carols, and more. Lesley has been musical director of Leeds People's Choir for 15 years.
Campaigns we have supported
Other organisations:
- Centre for Political Song at Glasgow Caledonian University: "We exist to promote and foster an awareness of all forms of political song; an appreciation of the role of political song in the social, political and cultural life of communities; and to facilitate research in all relevant areas of study."
- Natural Voice Network: We believe that singing is everyone's birthright and we are committed to teaching styles that are accepting and inclusive of all, regardless of musical experience and ability.
- WRPM (Women’s Revolutions Per Minute) has supplied music performed, composed and produced by women since 1977. WRPM supports Independent Women Musicians and their catalogue includes recordings by many hard-to-find artists, inlcuding Holly Near, Judy Small and Sweet Honey in The Rock.