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    RALLY FOLK MUSIC IS NOT FOR SALE! All transactions are strictly on a donation-basis.* Give what you can to help this music grow!
    (I am banking on your good will.)

    *To give you an idea, each CD cost about $15 to produce.

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    WE ARE MIGHTY is a tribute to the power and resilience of ordinary people in the face of hardship and struggle, and an affirmation of the possibility to turn tragedy into transformation.

    THE MIGHTY BAND:
    Fred Arcoleo - voice, acoustic guitar, charango, slide whistle
    Ritt Henn - upright bass, Sadowsky & Serek electric basses
    Rex Benincasa - drums & percussion
    Shanika Anderson - harmonies

    MIGHTY SPECIAL GUESTS:
    Daniel A. Weiss - Hammond organ on “Upside Down,”
    Estey organ & Una Corda on “In the Dark Times”
    Sneferu Boatwright & Carolyn Tacey - chanting on “Lead the Way, Save the Day”
    Washington Heights Neighbors - clanging pots on “Lead the Way, Save the Day”
    Sage Boatwright - giggling on “GO!”
    The Children of Morningside Park, Harlem - laughing & screaming on “GO!”

    Produced by Fred Arcoleo, RALLY FOLK! Records, NYC
    All songs by Fred Arcoleo/Rally Folk Music, NYC (ASCAP)
    © 2022 all rights shared
    Recorded at Mayday Studios, NYC
    Additional Recording at Mark Dann Recording, BangZoom Records, & The Crypt
    Engineered and mastered by Mark Dann; additional engineering by Rich Lamb
    Graphic Design by Fred Arcoleo
    Photography by Fred Arcoleo except where indicated
    CD Duplication: Oasis Disc Manufacturing


    CD includes full-color booklet with lyrics and complete musician credits


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Inspired by a Bertolt Brecht poem — “In the dark times, there will be singing…” — a comfort and reassurance that, no matter the adversity, we can endure.

Featuring Daniel A. Weiss on Estey organ & Una Corda piano & Shanika Anderson on harmony vocals.

lyrics

4. IN THE DARK TIMES (5:01)

Why did we arrive at these times we’re in?
What did we do to deserve this?
Our collective nightmare, our deepest fears
Do we dare to scratch the surface?

In the dark times, there will be singing
In the dark times, there will be singing
about the dark times, about the dark times

Our infinite patience, the wisdom of the ancients
the insistence of our youth
We call on the forces of all our resources
for the courage to face the truth

In the dark times, there will be singing
In the dark times, there will be singing
about the dark times, about the dark times

Oooh, ooh-ooh-ooh ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

We’ll crawl and claw our way
and though it’s dark today
we will have our say
We’ll build our endurance against false reassurance
Our strength is internal, and struggle eternal
We who yearn for the light
must now conjure that burning

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

In the dark times
In the dark times
In the dark times

credits

from WE ARE MIGHTY: Sustenance for the Struggle, released July 1, 2022
voice, acoustic guitar – Fred Arcoleo
stand -up bass, arco bass – Ritt Henn
brushes, shekere – Rex Benincasa
Estey organ, Una Corda – Daniel A. Weiss
harmonies – Shanika Anderson

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FRED ARCOLEO New York, New York

Sober, hard-hitting, and fiercely original, yet cradled in tenderness, FRED ARCOLEO’s award-winning RALLY FOLK! MUSIC invites audiences to confront the difficult truths of the current state of our world with composure, optimism, and determination: “We are the ones we are waiting for.”

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