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75th Anniversary
CD & Songbook Project

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75th Anniversary CD recording session; Highlander; April 2007. For more pictures from the recording session, click here.

In celebration of 75 years of social justice organizing in the South, and in keeping with its commitment to art and culture as effective and necessary organizing tools, the Highlander Center is taking a comprehensive look at how music and storytelling have been instrumental in shaping our work and the history of the broader social justice movement.

75th Sampler Songbook

As part of this project, we are producing a series of CD's and a songbook documenting music and stories that have their roots at Highlander, as well as songs and stories from within the broader scope of social justice movements.

So far, we have produced the first CD, entitled Harmonies from the Hill, Volume 1, and a zine-style preview of the songbook, the 75th Sampler Songbook. Both can be purchased online at the Highlander bookstore at www.highlandercenter.org/r-b-75th.asp.

All artists featured on the CD are from the South, and three of the CD’s tracks were recorded during a song-sharing workshop at Highlander in April 2007. The CD was produced through volunteer efforts of Highlander staff, board members, and friends, and supports the work of Highlander’s Cultural Program. The CD contains the following songs. To play a sample, click the icon.

1. Fannie Lou Hamer Intro (Marquez Rhyne) - excerpt from
   Everybody Says Freedom by Pete Seeger and Bob Reiser
2. This Little Light of Mine (Greg Miller and Yvette Preyer
3. Interview: Jean Hardisty
4. Shoes and Stockings (Guy Carawan)
5. Interview: Johnny Bailey
6. Open the Window (Elise Witt)
7. Interview: Margaret Bonham
8. I'm Working on a Building (Paula Larke)
9. Interview: Tufara Waller Muhammad
10. Solid as a Rock (Rhea Scruggs)
11. Interview: Gilbert Martinez
12. Lift Your Head Up (M.U.G.A.B.E.E.)

75th Anniversary CD recording session; Highlander; April 2007. For more pictures from the recording session, click here.

We are currently working on additional CD's and the final version of the songbook, which will be available online and through the Highlander bookstore as soon as they are ready.

For more information, please contact:

• Tufara Waller Muhammad, Cultural Program Coordinator, (865) 335-2443, tufara at highlandercenter.org

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