We’ve joined a new unionizing effort! The Pan-Australian Workers’ Syndicate of Marsupials (PAWSoM) asked us to write them a song, so we wrote new words for the Australian labor anthem Bring Out Your Banners 🇦🇺🦘🐨

May & June touring schedule! 5/1 - Berkeley CA 5/2 - Sacramento CA 5/7 - Glens Falls NY - FREE show! 5/8 - Salem NY - FREE show! 6/13 - White Plains NY 6/20 - Boothbay Harbor ME 6/24 - Cambridge MA 6/26-28 - Altamont NY - Old Songs Festival Tickets and info: windbornesingers.com/concerts

Currently touring Australia!

The video file is too big to upload directly, so here it is on YouTube. In the spirit of Woody Guthrie, we’re keeping this song alive and sending it out from the woods of Massachusetts to the streets of Minneapolis and everywhere that communities are gathering together in solidarity and resistance

Wassail! Join us for one of our final shows of the year and sing along! 20 Dec - Manchester - Hallé St Peter’s 21 Dec - London - King’s Place 22 Dec - Cambridge - Junction Windbornesingers.com/concerts 🎶Somerset Wassail, arr. Windborne

TOUR UPDATE! We have a few more weeks of shows but tickets are going fast! Be sure to get yours before they’re gone ❄️ windbornesingers.com/concerts

Wassail with us! 🍻🍎🌲❄️ #wassail #folkmusic #folktradition #banjo #jawharp

Have you ever heard of wassailing? We love visiting traditions like these because they bring people together and strengthen communities, which is more important than ever this year. Sharing songs, finding joy, and caring for each other — will you sing with us? 🎶Malpas Wassail, from the Watersons

Where do we stand on the Boar’s Head Carol? Come find out during Music of Midwinter! Windbornesingers.com/concerts

Where will we see you for Music of Midwinter? Windbornesingers.com/concerts

Our Music of Midwinter tour starts next week! Find tix and info on all shows at WindborneSingers.com/concerts Will we see you there?

Music of Midwinter opens next week! Will we see you at a show or at the livestream on Nov 28? Windbornesingers.com/concerts

ARE YOU VOTING TODAY? 🎶 Song of the Lower Classes, words by Ernest Jones (1819-1869) a leader in the Chartist movement which fought for basic democratic rights in England in the 1830s and 40s. Melody by Ian Robb, arranged by Windborne

Seems like an appropriate moment to repost this #nokings #protestart #protestsong #raiseyourvoice #singout

What new verses would you write for Which Side Are You On? Sing them in the streets on Oct 18! Find an event near you with @50501movement.bsky.social

We wrote this arrangement of Cyril Tawney’s Grey Funnel Line more than ten years ago, and singing it never gets old 😍 Now you can enjoy the full song in all its resonant glory! youtu.be/jsaeaDC0TsQ?...

🎧Get your headphones for this one!🎧 the reverb in this space was already spectacular, but when the last chord happened to find a resonant frequency…🤩 Waterbound by Dirk Powell, arr. Windborne #folkmusic #reverb #harmonysinging #acappella #musicnerd

What does Bread and Roses mean to you? 🥖🌹

Fall tour schedule! Find ticket and more info at windbornesingers.com/concerts

Comment 😈 if you love a toe-tapping song with a good message! We adapted this piece by Le Vent du Nord several years ago and it’s still one of our favorite. Hear it at an upcoming show! Windbornesingers.com/concerts

We’ve been singing Grey Funnel Line by Cyril Tawney for a decade now and we still aren’t tired of it 🌊🚢❤️ What are your favorite folk songs?

To paraphrase Joan Baez: The opposite of despair isn’t hope — it is action

We will not shut up but we will keep singing 🔥 Endless thanks to our friend Joe Jencks for this incredible song, Lady of the Harbor 🗽 #vocalharmony #folkmusic #vocalband #singout #folksongs #raiseyourvoice #statueofliberty #immigrantsarewelcomehere #nooneisillegalonstolenland

Lots of events this summer, including two all day workshops in August! 7/9 - Berea KY + 7/10- Whitesburg KY + 7/13 - Galva IL + 7/18-19 - Greensboro VT^ 7/20 - Middlebury VT^ 7/31 - Harwich MA + 8/2 - Cambridge MA* 8/9 - Brooklyn NY* 9/18 - Northampton MA + *workshop +concert ^concert & workshop

THE PROBLEM IS REALLY THE BILLIONAIRE This song has been on our minds a lot lately 😑

These words were written in the 1840s by Chartist leader Ernest Jones. The more things change the more they stay the same 🙄 CALL YOUR REPS and demand they oppose HR 1 “the big beautiful bill” which gives tax breaks to billionaires while kicking millions off their health care

We’re always looking for more resonant spaces for spontaneous singing—where should we go next? Grey Funnel Line, by Cyril Tawney, arr. Windborne

¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! The people united will never be defeated!

🎶Summer concerts and singing workshops, including a whole bunch of free events! We’re particularly excited about all the workshops, which range from 1.5hrs to all day — check out our website for details WindborneSingers.com/concerts

NO MORE WAR

🌈Happy Pride!🌈 We wrote this parody to poke fun at some of the misguided stereotypes people have about gender and lift up freedom of expression, cuz it turns out that when we try to put something as fluid as gender into a box, it ends up hurting everyone

This is the human voice with no effects 💫 Bernardinu, trad. Corsica #corsica #corse #traditionalmusic #traditionalart #vocalharmony #vocalband #reverb #goodsinger #goodmusic

Summer gigs, including a benefit show for the ACLU in June! Tickets and info at windbornesingers.com/concerts

The world is on fire, but sometimes you just gotta laugh. And sometimes you just gotta write a Gregorian chant inspired by a viral tweet, a project that definitely was the best possible use of our rehearsal time 🙃 Please enjoy The Riddle of Sir Mix-a-Lot 🍑

Happy May Day, which is also International Workers Day! We welcome in the spring with song and dance, and we raise our voices for equity, liberation, and justice! Thanks to @alexcummingmusic.bsky.social on accordion ❤️🎶🪗

Have you heard of the tradition of hunting the wren?🐤Check out our p@treon for a series of posts about this midwinter custom, including a full video and track of this piece: our adaptation of a Welsh wren song that we call The Never Beyond!

April 17 and 18 in Glens Falls and Salem NY CANCELLED - We are so sorry to have to let you know that we to cancel our shows this weekend. We are already talking with the venue to reschedule! Sorry to disappoint everyone who was planning on coming, and thanks for your understanding ❤️‍🩹🎶

This song speaks very powerfully to the need to take action—both doing the hard work of fighting for justice, and the radical act of being truly present and finding joy in the world around you. Can you believe Phil Ochs was only 25 when he wrote When I’m Gone?

“They say in Harlan County there are no neutrals there” Florence Reece wrote this song in 1931 when Harlan County KY was being torn apart by bloody labor conflicts between unionized coal miners and the coal companies, who used every dirty trick in the book. The only path forward is solidarity

Find a rally near you on Sat April 5 at HandsOff2025.com Where will you be marching?

Keep calling, keep protesting, keep speaking out, and keep caring for yourself!

Will we see you somewhere along the road? Windbornesingers.com/concerts

Maybe we need to bring the tradition of hunting the wren over here to the US?

We will keep working to bring this world into being 🎶 Call your representatives, make your voice heard

Happy International Women’s Day! When we build coalitions and lift each other up, we all benefit 🥖🌹 #internationalwomensday #translivesmatter #breadandroses #singout #riseup #unionproud #vocalharmony #vocalband

The people united will never be defeated Call your reps, call your senators Make your voice heard We like the app 5 Calls for issue summaries, easy contact info, and sample scripts WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? Written by Florence Reece in 1931, still powerful today

Song of the Lower Classes comes from the Chartist movement in the UK in the 1830s-40s, which was crushed in its own time. Today we would consider their demands, like a secret ballot, as the basics of democracy. For us, this speaks to the importance of fighting for things beyond one’s own lifetime

Very exciting parcel showed up today. The @windbornesingers.bsky.social cd, book, and vinyl for their mid-winter album have made it safely here. I've been listening to the digital version, but it's nice to have these, and the book is particularly lovely.

@evangreer.bsky.social made radical folk music that inspired me as a teen, and is still out there doing good and speaking truth to power. Keep singing the good songs and fighting the good fights!