Opening Reception & Labor Song Sing-a-Long (Tenderloin Museum)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Inspired by the “People’s Songs Branch” gatherings at the California Labor School, San Francisco’s radical workers’ school with roots in the TL, Tenderloin Museum presents an inclusive group sing-a-long exploring labor songs, work songs, and more. 

To celebrate the opening of the special exhibit Education for Action: California Labor School, 1942 – 1957 (in collaboration with The Labor Archives and Research Center), Tenderloin Museum is hosting a sing-a-long in lieu of a reception so as to capture the participatory & inquisitive spirit of CLS, explore a wide-open repertoire with of labor songs, and gather with the purpose of singing together.

This event will utilize the In Song Sing On songbook, an ever growing collection of well loved and newly loved songs selected by a wide cast of contributors and compiled by artists David Wilson and Colter Jacobsen. Books will be passed around with lyrics, some guitar strummers will help hold the tune, and we will open up our voices toward one another. All are welcome and encouraged to sing and to bring a song to share!

Join the Tenderloin Museum, artists David Wilson and Raphel Villet, along with a handful of local musicians to sing together and to celebrate the opening of the California Labor School special exhibit.

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