Sing Out!

Sing Out!

Sing Out! Volume 50 #2 (Summer 2006), cover, featuring Dar Williams
Editor	Mark Moss
Categories	Music magazines
Frequency	Quarterly
Circulation	~12,000
First issue	May 1950
Company	Sing Out! Corporation
Country	United States
Based in	Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Language	English
Website	singout.org
ISSN	0037-5624

Sing Out! is a quarterly journal of folk music and folk songs that has been published since May 1950.

Sing Out! is the primary publication of the tax exempt, not-for-profit, educational corporation of the same name. According to the organization's web site, "Sing Out!'s mission is to preserve and support the cultural diversity and heritage of all traditional and contemporary folk musics, and to encourage making folk music a part of our everyday lives."Irwin Silber was an important co-founder along with Pete Seeger, and was the magazine's long-time editor from 1951 to 1967. Its current editor and executive director, since 1983, is Mark D. Moss. The editors apply a very broad definition of folk music including material from contemporary singer-songwriters, Americana, roots, blues, bluegrass, and world music.

One defining feature of the magazine is the inclusion of 15 or more songs with lyrics and music within the pages of each issue—supplemented since 2001 with an illustrative CD. The magazine also contains in-depth articles profiling musicians and musical traditions, "teach-ins," reviews of recordings and print publications, a comprehensive festival and camp listing, and columns covering topics such as songwriting, storytelling, children's music, and the folk process.

The corporate headquarters of Sing Out! is located on the southside of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania which is also home to the Sing Out! Resource Center. The magazine is distributed internationally by mail subscriptions and can be found in many bookstores and libraries throughout North America.