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Book Peter’s “Sing Like a Movement” Presentation for Your Next Event

Just about every significant movement for social change in U.S. history has had a body of participatory music – music known and sung by activists and supporters alike. Singing together, besides being fun, had the effect of welding the movement together.  Indeed, Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, said, “You will be a movement when you sing like a movement.” This presentation, by lifelong social change activist and song leader Peter Bergel, takes its title and inspiration from Yarrow’s comment. You can book it for a church, class, fundraiser or other event by calling Peter at 503-428-4280.

Bergel is devoted to re-energizing today’s social change movements by offering readily sing-able songs – songs that have the potential to weld crowds into movements through shared participation in singing.

In “Sing Like a Movement,” he traces the use of participatory music from the abolition movement through the labor movement, the civil rights movement and the anti-nuclear power and weapons movements to the present day in a fast-moving presentation during which he gets us singing these old songs, as well as some newer ones he has written.

Bergel’s recent CD, “Peace is Where You Make It,” featuring a dozen original participatory songs, can be available for purchase as well.

CD: “Peace Is Where You Make It”

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You Are Invited to listen to the tracks from “Peace Is Where You Make It” by clicking the links below. If you download the tracks instead of buying the CD, you are requested to make a donation of $1 per song you download.  To donate, click the Donate button below.




Tracks from “Peace Is Where You Make It”

Leave It In the Ground

Medicare for All

The Man Who Outed the Snoops

Peace Is Where You Make It

Mad As Hell

A Whole Lot More Cooperation

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Madmen at the Throttle

Never Enough

Got No Home So I Got No Rights

Things About Comin’ My Way

Carbon Blues