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UK Links
Brighton Hullabaloo http://www.hullabaloobrighton.org.uk/index.html
: contact details, programme but no songs or music
Sheffield Socialist choir: http://www.socialistchoir.co.uk
: contact details, no songs or music.
Leeds People's choir : no dedicated
website, contact details for Yorkshire choirs including LPC here:
http://www.yorkshire-folk-arts.com/directory/choirs.html
Nottingham Clarion choir: last update
2001, contact details: http://www.nottinghamclarionchoir.org.uk
Manchester Community choir : contact
details but access to songs, music, parts requires a members password
'for copyright reasons': http://www.manchestercommunitychoir.org.uk
London, Velvet Fist: contact and cd
details http://listen.to/velvetfist
London, Strawberry Thieves (London)
: has scores for 33 songs some of which we already sing but many we
dont complete with sound files (MIDI) for the parts. http://www.strawberrythieveschoir.org.uk
Jubilee Community Choir, Stoke Newington, London. The
choir sings a variety of pop and folk songs. Current set list inludes
a handful of 1960's pop classics, a few jazz and swing numbers, a madrigal
from the 1600s and they put scores lyrics and recordings on their site.
It was here I got the translation to Plegaria a un Labrador and the
link to Victo Jara's rendition on YouTube.
http://www.clubplan.org/CMS/page.asp?org=1517&id=390
Bristol, Red Notes: has a list of songs in their reportoire
http://www.rednoteschoir.org.uk
Cardiff, Cor Cochion (Cardiff Reds Choir); Has words
to the songs on their CD, many of which we sing: http://www.members.tripod.com/cor.cochion
London, Raised Voices : good links page: http://www.raised-voices.org.uk
Edinburgh, Protest in Harmony: Currently organizing
Songs for Faslane 365 Rise up Singing Blockade. For each song there
is the score to print out, and also mp3 files with each of the parts.
Good links page: http://www.protestinharmony.org.uk
International Links
France
A festival of revolutionary choirs called La Belle
Rouge takes place in Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine, Auvergne,
Puy-de-Dôme (63), between Clermont-Ferrand and Saint-Etienne
occurs over the last week-end in July 2008. The way in which
previous festivals have been organised is described here
; the way in which 2008 was organized is described here.
French choirs who attended were Les Oies sauvages (Montreuil-93), La
Barricade (Saint-Etienne 42), Choralternative (Rouen-76), Atelier Chanson
de La Belle Etoile (Saint-Denis-93), Les Gaperons Rouges (Riom-63),
Les Barricades (Grenoble-38), Les Josettes Rouges (Le Havre-76), La
Bande à Rosa (Amiens-80), Les Joyeux Mutins (Lille-59), La Lutte
Enchantée (Marseille-13), L’Accord Râle (Charlieu-42),
des chorales révolutionnaires de Perpignan (66), Tours (37) et
Lyon (69), La Chorale des Sans-Noms (Nancy-54), La Canaille du Midi
(Toulouse-31)
Links to choirs singing activists songs in France:
Chorale des Sans
Nom - Nancy - This site has lots of mp3's of songs here
Le Drapeau Rouge - lots of
lyrics but no music
Les Barricades - Grenoble
- lots of songs, lyrics, and music with midi files of parts.
Compagnie Jolie Môme -
a theatre group organizing the festival.
Canaille du midi - Toulouse
- lots of songs with lyrics and documents, some mp3's, no music
Chor'alternative
- Rouen - lots of original songs some with mp3 files of the parts. No
music in notation form though
Joyeux Mutins (not known yet - see them in action at http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7f1ws_les-joyeux-mutins_music
Chants de lutte - lyrics
and activist documents
Chants de la rue - modern
songs particularly new words to old songs
Mix-Cite - site of feminist
songs
Merle Rouge - lyrics and documents
Drapeau Rouge - Many songs
and some music here
Karaoke:
(http://karalbol.free.fr/) A site of popular and revolutionary songs
with the songs below in karaoke as well as the original versions. The
karaoke versions show the words highlighted so you sing along to a backing
track together with suitable graphics background. The site requires
the download and installation of a free program <karafun> which
can be downloaded from the site.
A bas l'état policier, Bella ciao, Bienvenue en chiraquie, C'est
dans la rue, Chanson de Craonne, El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido,
Front ouvrier (ou Le Front des Travailleurs), Gloire au 17ème,
Hasta Siempre, Here's to you, Il est 5 heures (mai 68), L'appel du Komintern,
L'âge d'or, L'Estaca, L'hymne des femmes, L'Internationale, La
Butte Rouge, La Carmagnole, La Chanson du Père Duchesne, La Cucaracha,
La Jeune Garde, La Semaine Sanglante, La Varsovienne, Le Déserteur,
Le Drapeau Rouge, Le temps des cerises, Le temps perdu, Les Anarchistes,
Les Canuts, Les Mains d'or, Les Nouveaux partisans, Les Partisans, Lily,
Magouilles Blues, Motivés, Ne te trompe pas de colère,
Ouvrez les frontières, Parachutiste, Porcherie, Potemkine, Quand
un soldat, Salutations révolutionnaires, Sans la nommer, Solidarité,
Son bleu (repertoire at Jan 2009 - new songs are added continually).
Outside Europe
Union Song
- Australian site with songs and documents from all over the world:
more than 600 songs and poems and links to over 240 Authors
New York City Labour Chorus:
several sound files for Solidarity forever, Get thee behind me Satan,
We shall overcome, Bread and Roses.
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