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Sea Green Singers 

Past Programmes
Current Progamme

 
December 5-7th - London Brockley - Entente Chorale - organized by Strawberry Thieves Socialist Choir - Political choirs from London (Strawberry Thieves, Raised Voices, Red & Green) and Northern France (Les Joyeux Mutins - Lille, La Bande a Rosa - Amiens, Les Josettes Rouges - Le Havre, Choralternative -Rouen) learning new songs from one another and performing together plus singers Nottingham, Oldenburg, Bremen and Oxford. Public Concert 8pm Saturday 6th Dec. at Myatt Garden School, Rokeby Road, SE4; Open Air singing Sunday 7th Dec. South Bank, Tate Modern, Scoop - next to City Hall (phone 07940 539393 to find us)
15th November 2008: One World Fair, Town Hall - Aint gonna study war no more, At the Coop, Guantanamero, Hamba Kalale, Blowing in the wind - Recycling, E Malaama, They're building a wall, U Mandela, El Pueblo, Fair Trade Rant using Coffee words.
15th November 2008: All-day workshop with Kirsty Martin, leader of Hullabaloo, Brighton choir. St Columba’s Church Hall, 10am – 3.30pm - sound
July 28 to August 3rd 2008: Meeting of activist choirs, France in Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine, (Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme (63), between Clermont-Ferrand and Saint-Etienne); John Hamilton of Strawberry Fields has organized a UK contigent. At 1st May 2-3 people from SeaGreen Singers are going.
Programme of songs: La Plegaria a un Labrador, The World Turned Upside Down.
To hear songs and see pictures click here. Details of accomodation, B&B's, gites and higher class camping sites are listed here:
Diaries describing how previous years events went are here
July 11th to 13th Brighton Festival (for scores, mp3 files of parts for the Mass sing click here if site has not been dismantled)
On Stage
: Singing for our lives (We Are The Brighton Seaweed Swingers), Ballad of Accountancy, U Mandela.
Busking: They're Building a Wall, Fair Trade Rant, Oh had I a Golden Thread, Bringing Peace/Salaam
(is on our shoulders), Freedoms Coming (around the corner), Singabahambayo Thina, E Malama, Harriet Tubman, Siya Hamba, El Pueblo Unido, Mevi Lyetu Afurica, William Brown
Mass Sing: I Swear, All Will Be Well, Guantanamera - score of all verses on one page hear the whole arrangement, Act of Revolution, Praise You, The Internationale.
June 29th, Sunday - Next General Meeting at Keya’s starting at 2.30 pm 3 Dark Lane, Sunningwell, OX13 6RE tel Ox 739989 followed at around 4:30pm by Social. Please bring food / drink to share
 
May 17th - The 34th Annual Levellers' Day. Saturday 17th May 2008. Burford, Oxfordshire. For pictures of this event follow 'Performances' linkTIME FOR A WRITTEN CONSTITUTION? - TONY BENN, ANTHONY BARNETT chaired by REV. GILES FRASER. SGS led the Internationale and taught the Woodcraft folk 'William Brown' in parts.
March 15th – Fair Trade Fare, Witney. Lunchtime at Langdale :
Songs list: Singing for Our Lives - We are the Oxford Sea Green Singers,
E Malaama, Siya Hamba, Singabahambayo Thina, Fair Trade Rant, Ballad of Joe Hill, Mevi Lyetu, Songs of Freedom, El Pueblo. Actually sang Land Rights, new words (on music page) on coffee to Fair Trade Rant tune added to music page, didnt sing Mevi Lyetu, Joe Hill and Singabahambayo Thina.

Sorry - poor quaulity still from aborted movie clip
8th December: Green Fair, Town Hall, songs: same as One World Fair except no Valley in Spain:
Celebration of Brian Hodgson's life evening on 23rd November 2007, 7.30pm, The Marlborough School, Woodstock. Songs: The Intertnationale, Bandiera Rossa, Bella Ciao, The Red Flag, 10-15 mins in 2 slots.
17th November 2007,One World Fair, Town Hall - video clip here. We are the Sea Green Singers (Singing for Our Lives), E Malaama, They're building a wall - Sid with guitar, Valley in Spain, Mevi Lyetu, Joe Hill, World turned upside down, Freedom, Internationale, Soyilwela, Singaba, Siyahamba
10th November: All-day workshop with Kirsty Martin, leader of Hullabaloo, Brighton choir. St Columba’s Church Hall, 10am – 3.30pm - sound clips here
19th October: OxJam event, Friends Meeting House, 7.30pm.( fund-raising event in aid of Oxfam)
13-15th July, 25th National Street Choir Festival, in Manchester, http://www.streetchoirfestival.org.uk/index.htm.
Songs: The Levellers Day Song; March/Sing on
16th June Saturday: official opening of Barracks Lane Community Garden. (Off Cowley Rd), 3.15 Jericho. Rolling Home, Walk On, Siya Hamba, Bread and Roses, Land Rights (see video clip here)

June 14th Thursday evening; Flowing Well at Sunningwell. Programme: Jericho, Rolling Home, Walk On, Siya Hamba, Bread and Roses, Land Rights (Right to Life)

June 10th, Sunday, sgs AGM - at Pete's, 17 Bedford St, OX41SU Time, normally around 2/3pm for a finish at 4/5pm bringing a dish to share for afterwards.
19th May, Levellers day, Saturday 12am, Warwick Hall Garden, Burford, Oxfordshire: Programme: Land Rights, Watch Out, River Runs, No Going Back, Factory, Take it Away, Foggy Dew, Internationale, War Machine, African
10th May 2007, Lord Mayors reception, Town Hall, African selection, March On, Rolling Home, Bandiera Rossa, Internationale, Walls of Jericho, War Machine, Both Sides, Deep blue Sea
19th April Thursday, Campsfield Refugee Camp, 8.0pm; Bandiera Rossa, Bella Ciao, Both Sides, Freedom is coming, Internationale, Senzenina, Soyilulwela, Siya Hamba, Singabahambayo Thina, Break em on down, Singing for our Lives, We shall not give up the fight, Ashikhatali, Campsfield House IRC, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxon OX5 1RE
18th April Captain Crow, written for BBC Oxford Slavery Progamme, broadcast BBC1 Oxford, 23rd April 2007

23rd March Friday, concert in support of Water Aid at the Friends Meeting House, Oxford

Sunday, 11th March, 8pm, Exeter Hall, Cowley Road, Oxfordshire, Faslane 365 gig

Womens Festival - Thursday March 8th 2007, Oxford Town Hall, 8pm:
Bread and Roses, Singing for our lives, No going back

'Can music change the world' Performances at debate at Ruskin College, Oxford, Feb 25th 2007, 7pm
We Are the Sea green Singers, No Going Back, Internationale

Levellers day concert at Holywell concert hall 18th February 2007:
Singing for our lives, Hard times, Deep blue sea, Factory, Land Rights, Senzenina, Unison in Harmony, Siya Hamba, I a'int afraid, Breaths
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Sea Green Singers contact telephone ( Keya Guha): 07976 715174or e-mail mail@seagreensingers.com
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