Listen to our Songs!

STORY

Solidarity Notes Labour Choir is a group of activists who know that music is more than pleasurable sound. It's a powerful language to educate and connect us and remind us of our strength and history. Throughout history, struggles for labour and human rights have produced music that inspires and reconnects us to hope and possibility.

We began in March 2000, with the support of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, as a strategy to bring community activists and unionists together. Eleven years later, we are more than 80 members strong with people who are young, old, and in-between; people who read music and people who don't.  Check out our Archives page . . . . .

We have members who belong to unions and members who don't; members who are retired and members who wish they were. Our criteria for acceptance are a willingness to sing and a commitment to the principles of the labour and social justice movements.

Our repertoire consists of labour songs and songs of social justice. We perform on picket lines, at rallies, conventions, conferences, memorials, and benefits - wherever our music can contribute to social progress.

We have sung with Utah Phillips at the Vancouver International Folk Festival, with the Seattle Labour Chorus at the Paul Robeson Memorial Concert, for Fidel Castro in Cuba, at the Western Workers Heritage Labour Festival in San Francisco, at the Pacific Northwest labour History's Association's Wobbley Festival in Seattle, and at Miners' Memorial Day in Cumberland, BC. However, we are most commonly found singing in Vancouver, on picket lines, at peace marches, demonstrations, memorials and social justice benefits.

We are ordinary people who like to sing and contribute to social change.

We are self-supporting, have sliding scale monthly dues and do not turn down invitations to perform on the basis of an organization's inability to pay.