HAPPY NEW YEAR! LET'S ALL SING OUT LOUD!

With protest folk songs, mainly from Peter, Paul M and Mary, virtually becoming the centerpiece of Sing Out in 1966, the folk songs mood changed a bit in the run-up towards the three-day Woodstock in the U.S. in 1969, also the year the 5th Dimension Singers happily sang to welcome the historic dawning of The Age of Aquarius click here. It was also in 1969 that the theme of peace was highlighted in John Lennon's Imagine click here and All We Are Saying is Give Peace a Chance click here. Over the decades, the peace theme was enriched by that of love and harmony, with I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing click here; We are the World click here; and also Paul MacCartney’s Ebony and Harmony click here, which he sang with Stevie Wonder .Without indulging in illusions of the work to be done being easy, the songs have strengthened our Human determination to make significant contributions to the Love-Peace-Joy consciousness and popular music of 2011 and succeeding years..

We have really come a long way from the Sing Out Folk Songs Festival in 1966 to the Sing Out our Love, Peace, Joy in 2011, just a span of five years short of half a century. And for the latter we encourage the world's many family and friendship groups to create, collect, share and sing songs together for the Love, Peace and Joy that most Humans openly desire and are getting about ready to materialize in earnest on our planet