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We’ll be singing out in New Bedford on Friday, August 1, from 5-7 p.m.!

Nice weather location: If the weather’s nice, we’ll be outdoors in Wing’s Court. Wing’s Court is a small park off Union St. between Purchase St. and Acushnet Ave. (there’s another entrance to the park off Purchase St.). Look for us in the sheltered deck behind the Bristol Building.

Bad weather location: Join us in the lobby of the Bristol Building, at 752 Purchase Street. It’s right next door to the Green Bean coffeehouse, which will be open until 6 p.m., so you can buy one of their fantastic sandwiches and a cup of coffee and walk over and sing with us.

We’ll be singing from Rise Up Singing — there will be loaner copies available, but please bring your own if you have a copy. If you want to share a song that’s not in Rise Up Singing, please bring about 20 copies of lyrics, with easy chords. Bring your voice, and you’re also welcome to bring your guitar, dulcimer (either kind), fiddle, tin whistle, or what-have-you.

Please note: Dan Harper will be ordering another case of Rise Up Singing. If the publisher has them back in stock, and if they arrive in time, Dan will be selling copies at cost (about 20% less than Amazon.com’s price) on August 1.

Today we had most of our core group of singers. Ted and Dan started off singing right at 5:00, and Chuck and Emily came over a few minutes later. Emily led a new song for us, one by Jean Ritchie. And a couple of the better singers got some harmony going on some of the songs we’re more familiar with.

We had some new faces walk in from the sustainability event that was happening at the same time in Wing’s Court. One man from Germany came up and sang with us, and he taught us a variation of Kumbayah with a driving rhythm and a somewhat different melody — it really rocked!

We sang a number of songs from the alternate song booklet that Dan put together, called “Songs Not in ‘Rise Up Singing’,” which, believe it or not, has a couple of dozen songs that are not in Rise Up Singing. We’re gradually posting lyrics for those songs (when the songs are in the public domain), or at least guitar chords, elsewhere on this Web site.

Make sure you come next month for plenty of good singing, whether you’ve never sung before, or you’re an experienced singer.

We’ll be singing out in New Bedford on Friday, July 4, from 5-7 p.m.! You have time to come sing with us before the kick-off concert for Summerfest folk festival in New Bedford (gates open at 6:00 p.m., it’s only a block away) — or what the heck, be a real folkie, skip the concert, and come make music with us! You’ll still be able to hear all the music on Saturday and Sunday.

Nice weather location: If the weather’s nice, we’ll be outdoors in Wing’s Court. Wing’s Court is a small park off Union St. between Purchase St. and Acushnet Ave. (there’s another entrance to the park off Purchase St.). Look for us in the sheltered deck behind the Bristol Building.

Bad weather location: Join us in the lobby of the Bristol Building, at 752 Purchase Street. It’s right next door to the Green Bean coffeehouse, which will be open until 6 p.m., so you can buy one of their fantastic sandwiches and a cup of coffee and walk over and sing with us.

We’ll be singing from Rise Up Singing — there will be loaner copies available, but please bring your own if you have a copy. If you want to share a song that’s not in Rise Up Singing, please bring about 20 copies of lyrics, with easy chords. Bring your voice, and you’re also welcome to bring your guitar, ukulele, tambourine, concertina, or what-have-you.

This month’s Singing Out! happened at the same time as the Garden Night event in Wing’s Court, so lots of those people wandered up to check out the small group of us who were singing, and some of them stuck around to listen, or to sing with us. It was a little too chilly to be outside — the guitarists found their fingers were getting cold — but we had fun anyway.

We should have some pictures, which will be added to this post when we get them.

We’ll be singing out in New Bedford on Friday, June 6, from 5-7 p.m.!

Nice weather location: If the weather’s nice, we’ll be outdoors in Wing’s Court. Wing’s Court is a small park off Union St. between Purchase St. and Acushnet Ave. (there’s another entrance to the park off Purchase St.). Look for us in the sheltered deck behind the Bristol Building.

Bad weather location: Join us in the lobby of the Bristol Building, at 752 Purchase Street. It’s right next door to the Green Bean coffeehouse, which will be open until 6 p.m., so you can buy one of their fantastic sandwiches and a cup of coffee and walk over and sing with us.

We’ll be singing from Rise Up Singing — there will be loaner copies available, but please bring your own if you have a copy. If you want to share a song that’s not in Rise Up Singing, please bring at least 20 copies of lyrics, with easy chords. Bring your voice, and you’re also welcome to bring your guitar, mountain dulcimer, tin whistle, bodhran, or what-have-you.

“When people are singing, you’re giving them the power.” — Sally Potter, Rise Up Singing in East Lansing, Mich., as reported by the New York Times on February 10, 2008. Link to story.

We’ll be singing out in New Bedford on Friday, May 2, from 5-7 p.m.!

Join us in the lobby of the Bristol Building, at 752 Purchase Street. It’s right next door to the Green Bean coffeehouse, which will be open until 6 p.m., so you can buy one of their fantastic sandwiches and a cup of coffee and walk over and sing with us.

We’ll be singing from Rise Up Singing — there will be loaner copies available, but please bring your own if you have a copy. If you want to share a song that’s not in Rise Up Singing, please bring at least 20 copies of lyrics, with easy chords. Bring your voice, and you’re also welcome to bring your guitar, dulcimer, fiddle, banjo, concertina, gut bucket, jug, crumhorm, or what-have-you.

Stick around after Singing Out! to listen to live acoustic music, beginning at 7 p.m.

South Coast Sustainability Network has relocated to its own domain name:

http://www.sustainablesouthcoast.org/blog/

Please update the bookmarks in your Web browser.

The sustainability event calendar has also moved to the new site.

We’ll be singing out in New Bedford on Friday, April 4, from 5-7 p.m.!

Join us in the lobby of the Bristol Building, at 752 Purchase Street, right next door to the Green Bean coffeehouse (corner of Union and Purchase).

We’ll be singing from Rise Up Singing — there will be loaner copies available, but please bring your own if you have a copy. Bring your voice, and you’re also welcome to bring your guitar, dulcimer, fiddle, banjo, uke, accordion, or what-have-you.

Stick around after Singing Out! to listen to great live music, beginning at 7 p.m.