When we sing together we are united in one voice. It gives us strength, confidence and new ideas. The old songs keep us connected to our history, a history that remains hidden or ignored. But we need new songs as well, about the issues, struggles and triumphs of today. The Political Songster was an occasional book of songs with music and links to performances, gathered from contributors to Sing Political and sold at its monthly sessions. During the Covid crisis there was a massive outpouring of new songs – we responded by putting out new issues every month as online publications, also uploaded all previous issues and an online index to all the songs. In January 2021, instead of publishing separate issues, we started to upload songs to a new Political Song Depot
EMAIL US YOUR NEW SONGS FOR INCLUSION – if possible include music notation and/or a link to a web soundfile or video, plus a short statement to put the song in context.
Here are links to the online versions of the Songster:
March 2014 | January 2015 | April 2015 | April 2016 | Dec 2016 | Nov 2017 | Nov 2019
Bumper issue for April, May, June and July 2020 with many songs relating to lockdown, and finally October 2020
There is also an index to the Political Song Depot with links to songs published from January 2021 onwards
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