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Jack Cheng: At 93 songwriter Pete Seeger still continues to inspire (2012)

A guest column in the Newton Tab by our own Jack Cheng, on Pete Seeger's ninety-third birthday and on what a room full of people singing together can do.

Sing-a-Long in Memory of Pete Seeger (2014)

When Pete Seeger died in January 2014, we held a public sing-along at the Waban Library Center the following week. Over a hundred people came. NewTV covered it, and their story is on our Videos page.

Newton Family Singers celebrate five years together (2014)

The Newton Tab marked our fifth anniversary with a story on the chorus.

Living Room Concerts: Happiness (2017)

Local filmmaker Deb Todd Wheeler made a half-hour documentary about our December 2016 concert, which aired on NewTV.

Singing the praises of Newton Family Singers (2019)

A Newton Tab photo gallery of the chorus, from November 2019.

How to Start a Singing Group: An Oral History of Newton Family Singers (2019)

Jack Cheng interviewed the founding members and wrote the story of how this chorus came to be. Excerpts ran in our tenth-anniversary program.