Change of Venue: We now meet at the Wesley Memorial Church in Oxford city centre, in New Inn Hall Street, facing the end of St Michael's Street (for map see below).

This site gives information on:

programme of future (and past) performances;

videos/MP3 sound files of previous performances;

songs in the reportoire (scores & parts mp3 files

Come along on Thursday's and sing with the Sea Green Singers

Imagine being able to sing your heart out – for things you believe in. Imagine singing in solidarity with people trying to change the world. Imagine a choir you don’t have to audition for – you just need to share the passion of singing for causes you care about. Well, here we are - the Oxford Sea Green Singers!

The Seagreen Singers are a community singing group based in Oxford. We sing songs to change the world. The group was formed after a class arranged by the Oxford Workers' Education Association (WEA), and it’s been going for about 10 years.

We sing at events supporting peace and social justice around Oxfordshire. We’ve sung “alternative” carols for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.We’ve run workshops at Campsfield Detention Centre to meet refugees and cheer the inmates and sung outside in support of the campaign to get it closed. We’ve performed at Fair Trade and Green Fairs, we’ve marched on demonstrations, we’ve supported environment and allotment open days. We rarely charge a fee, but sometimes ask for donations for good causes.

The group is named after the colour of the ribbons worn by the Levellers, a radical movement in Cromwell's Model Army. The Levellers believed in equality for all, justice, and human rights – things that inspire us, centuries later; they did not believe in common ownership of land* (see note below), We try to be true to the spirit of the Levellers – steadfastness in the face of oppression, determination to live by their principles.

All are welcome to join, and we encourage anyone interested to come along. We meet at the Wesley Memorial Church in Oxford city centre, in New Inn Hall Street, facing the end of St Michael's Street. :
See where we are in OpenStreetMap
On the map below W marks Wesley MC; C marks St Columba's where we used to meet.

We meet on Thursdays at 8pm. All are welcome. You don’t need singing experience, and you don’t have to read music. Just turn up, or for more information contact 07815 914 776, or email mail@seagreensingers.com.

Hear an interview between Jo Thoenes on BBC Oxford with Pete Cranston about the SeaGreen Singers (12th October 2009

*Anne Lyons has pointed out an error in our original text which said the Levellers believed in common ownership of land. She makes the following points:
"Well they certainly did believe in the last three ( equality within the limits of the seventeenth century) but sorry to disappoint, the first (common ownership of land) is completely wrong - John Lilburne, if alive, would have denounced you for saying it. Whoever wrote this was thinking about Winstanley and the Diggers.

The Agreement of the People , 1 May 1649, rejects common ownership of land:

And in as much as we have found by sad experience, That generally men make little or nothing, to innovate in Government to exceed their time and power in places of trust, to introduce an Arbitrary, and Tyrannical power, and to overturn all things into Anarchy and Confusion, where there are no penalties imposed for such destructive crimes and offences.

XXX. We therefore agree and declare, That it shall not be in the power of any Representative, in any wise, to render up, or give, or take away any part of this Agreement, nor level mens Estates, destroy Propriety, or make all things Common.

I suspect that that it should read 'destroy property" rather than 'destroy propriety' but that's what it says in the transcription I've got. The reason this was specifically included in the Agreement of the People was because opponents tried to incite people against the Levellers by alleging that they wanted to make all things common, that's why opponents called them the Levellers, it wasn't a name they chose themselves. But that wasn't what they did actually have in mind. "
Anne Lyons

To find more about the Choir meeting at St Amant, July 2008 - Chorales de St Amant: chansons, photos et movies :
http://sgs.lpi.org.uk/seagreensingers/stamant2008/stamant08.htm

Site de Strawberry Thieves avec leur chansons:
http://www.strawberrythieveschoir.org.uk