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- Aileen Vance & Planet Banjo
- Holly Near: This year we've the had the wonderful opportunity to perform with the fabulous Holly Near. Many of you know her as one of the founding mothers of women's music. Others know of her anti-war activities during the Vietnam War, like touring with Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden on the "Free the Army" tour. We've had a great time being her band and audiences have loved it--ours and hers, alike. Booking us with Holly.
- Anne Feeney: Singer, unionmaid, hellraiser, Anne's got a new cd, "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" and we sing backup on “Hillcrest Mine."
- Jon Fromer, the soulfullest man in activist song, has got a new cd, too, "Gonna Take Us All". And we LOVE singing harmony with Jon every November at the SOA Watch vigil on his song, "My Feet Are Tired," from "We Do The Work".
- RiotFolk Collective: "An artist-owned-and-run collective of radical songwriters and musicians who are making folk a threat again!" We've worked with Ryan Harvey, Evan Greer and Ethan Miller & Kate Boverman.
- Rising Appalachia: We met sisters, Leah & Chloe at the School of the Americas Watch Vigil in '07. Check out their "sonic creations from neo-soul poetics to remixed Appalachian standards to urban & jazz influenced orginals."
- David Rovics: After becoming a dad, David's now doing kid's music, too. But still with an activist edge. Check out the video for Pirate Song and you'll see what we mean.
- Needle in the Groove. Bringing together the subversive beauty of quilting with the far-reaching joy of music, the patchwork quilt and compilation CD includes songs from Holly Near, Toshi Reagon, Buffy St. Marie, Faith Petric, Ani DiFranco and Ember Swift and our "Peace, Salaam, Shalom" and benefits the Palestinian girls’ group, Flowers Against the Occupation.
In summer 2007, we traveled to Palestine with drummer Sarah Allen, vocalist and harmonica & guitar player, Andrea Pritchett of Rebecca Riots, pianist, Ellen Cantarow and tour organizer, Hannah Mermelstein of BirthRight Unplugged to teach at a summer music camp for the Flowers girls. Read our blogs, check out the Sarah's fantastic video with music by Toshi Reagon, and support this year's camp! - Pete Seeger
- Hazel Dickens
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Bev Grant
- Charlie King
- Phil Ochs
- Toshi Reagon
- Buffy St. Marie
- Faith Petric
- Ani DiFranco
- Ember Swift
- more to come!