Rebel Voices

Our former 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 musician and labor organizer Pat Wynne.

 

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.

 

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

 

Left Coast Labour Chorus

Formed in September, 2014, the Vancouver area chorus is 30-plus singers who merge their voices and their activism in their music, conducted by Peggy Hua.  SLC performed in a joint concert with them in Vancouver in April, 2018.

 

D.C. Labor Chorus 

Twin Cities (Minnesota) Labor Chorus—founded 2009 

U. Massachusetts Unions United Labor Chorus—for members of U. Mass. Unions

Artists we love

Anne Feeney

Anne died of COVID-19 in January 2021 and is greatly missed.  Anne 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 County

Seattle's Slowest Rising Folk Group- playing original, traditional and delusional folk music

 

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"

 

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 too clever for their accordion.

 

Other Links

 

Labor Notes

One of our songs was chosen as song of the month for this labor site.  Labor Notes works to 'put the movement back into the labor movement'.

 

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

 

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. 

 

Songs to Sing in the Car with Kids
Who doesn't like to sing in the car with kids?  Here is a great list of songs to sing.  

 

Labor Heritage Foundation

A great website full of labor culture.