Women Artists Sing Out Against Nuclear Madness
An Online Concert*
Sunday • August 9, 2026 • 7pm
(Nagasaki Remembrance Day)
Sponsored by
Peoples Music Network
For Songs of Freedom & Struggle
Emceed by: Joanne Tuller (with Tech Support and Coordination)
Curation & Co-hosting by: Sharleen Leahey
Co-Hosting by: Louise Hetzler
Sound Engineering by: Eric Law
On Sunday, August 9, 2026 at 7pm, the 81st anniversary of the Atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States military, thirteen American women songwriters and musicians gathered together to perform songs expressing their opposition to Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power.
Through our music we lift our voices for peace and advocate for the safe, clean and renewable energy future our children and all beings living on Mother Earth (including generations not yet born) deserve and urgently need.
Watch and listen to moving songs of resistance and empowerment as we visualize and demand a world where respect for the sanctity of life takes precedence over the profit-driven nuclear madness currently being unleashed upon our fragile planet. May love, sanity and peace prevail.
WATCH VIDEO
PERFORMERS*
- Diane Doolittle
Little Girl of Hiroshima (Flute Solo)
- Sarah Pirtle
Peace Drum for Nipponzon-Myohoji
by Sarah Pirtle
- Pat Lamanna
The H-Bomb’s Thunder
Lyrics by John Brunner • Tune by Miners’ Lifeguard.
- Sarah Underhill
Grandfather’s Trees
by Sarah Underhill
- Laura Sue, The Silver Nightingale
(accompanied by Piper)
No Nukes Swing
by Laura Sue Wilansky
- Lindsey Wilson
How Many Times?
by Lindsey Wilson
- Carol “Cleo” Knopf
85 Minutes
by Cleo Knopf
- Caroline Cutroneo
What Have They Done To The Rain?
by Malvina Reynolds
- Sharon Abreu
What Is The Sound?
(Of Nuclear Weapons NOT Exploding)
by Sharon Abreu
- Sharleen Leahey
Chernobyl
by Kristin Lems
- Colleen Kattau
Take Them Down
by Anne Feeney (VIDEO)
- Lydia Adams Davis
Did I Miss The Demonstration?
by Lydia Adams Davis (VIDEO)
- Louise Hetzler
Rays of Hope
by Louise Hetzler.
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Women Artists for Peace
For information on our artists’ recordings and videos, contact:
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Peoples Music Network
For almost 50 years PMN has been creating community for cultural workers in America and, for the last 5 years, around the world. Our mission is to enhance and strengthen our political struggles for peace, human rights and Earth Justice through the power of song, poetry, musicianship
and other creative art forms.
To learn about Peoples Music Network’s in-person and online workshops and gatherings, and how to become a member, visit their website:
*Woman Created – No Artificial Intelligence or bots were used in the performance, curation, and production (including graphics) of this concert. Oh vey!
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Sharleen Leahey
songs4peace
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class . . . it is the cause of humankind.”
–Dr. Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)
Born enslaved, died FREE!
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