Minneapolis Comes Together in Song
“When my wife Jacqueline and I moved into the Longfellow community of Minneapolis four decades back, we were the young folks helping out the old folks. Today, we’re the old folks surrounded by young neighbors who are keeping an eye on us.
We’ve been put through more than any neighborhood should be put through these last few years. George Floyd was murdered only blocks from our home. Mother Renee Good killed by ICE only blocks from our faith community. VA Nurse Alex Pretti, too, shot dead by Trump’s thugs a block from where I recorded Water In The Rain (Honoring the 38) & White Sheets In The White House.
Today my neighbors are working around the clock protecting children and families in our community from being abducted, kidnapped, and separated by the hands of our own federal government.
Yet, through it my neighborhood has grown even more resilient and strong in our love and compassion for each other. The same is so for the entire Minneapolis-St.Paul community and beyond. And through it all we’ve just kept on singing and writing songs love and resistance.
With a passion I’ve been gathering up these songs and weaving them together in an ever-growing list with links below to share with the world. If there’s songs you wish to add, please forward them to me with a link.
Thanks for all you do and keep on singing.” – Larry Long
“Song is a vehicle for us to grieve. It’s a vehicle for us to feel rage. It’s a vehicle to strengthen ourselves. Our love will carry us through.” Member of Singing Resistance
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/video/mn-group-singing-resistance-ice-vrt-digvid
Singing Resistance Songbook
https://docs.proton.me/doc?mode=open-url&token=407BQZDEPG#3JsVHndYmmhy
Proud To Live In Minnesota – Time Sparks & Sanctuary Singers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGwseJ9kjQE
Love Circles Round by Larry Long
https://www.facebook.com/reel/4415178272088425
We March by Prince | Video created by Jim Walsh
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1476086494051830
Something Happening Here In Minneapolis by Susan Werner
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1399127804999131
Three Shots (A Song for Renee Good) by The Midnight Republic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhZbMvoT5no
Don’t Buy The Lie by Thomasina Petrus & Kashimana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wkE8vPiM8
Amanda Gorman’s Poem for Alex Pretti in Song
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUUBicsANR-/
Corrido De Alex Pretti by the Mexican Community
https://www.facebook.com/reel/860936279948775
Black & Tan Irish Ballad for Minneapolis by Carsie Blanton
https://www.facebook.com/reel/825816797173397
Hennepin County by Bob Lucas
https://www.facebook.com/reel/928627339822538
Drummers In – ICE Out – Noah Levy, Bobby Vandell, & Others
https://www.facebook.com/reel/4287217618262504
Song for Alex & Renee by Alice Limoges
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DT8w28OgZ73/
Phone In Hand (The Ballad of Alex Pretti) by Chuck Thompson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2P_EWbYdo
Ballad of Alex Pretti by Larry Long
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1464404995116443
White Sheets In The White House by Larry Long | Filmed by Bob Trench
with Robert Robinson, Van Nixon, Joe Savage, Daryl Boudreaux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTKhq6Z9ABE
Put Me On Your List Rag by Adam Levy
https://www.facebook.com/reel/876345488707161
A Protest Song for Minneapolis (Ice, F**K Yout) by Songwriter Unknown
https://www.facebook.com/reel/730831606501338
Percussions Over The Stone Arch Bridge by Noah Levy & Friends
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1882686095682218
Believe Your Eyes by Thomas Keesecker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdDHBGIx0Es
Vigilante Ice by Jim Page
https://www.facebook.com/reel/970611985833329
Minnesota Anthem (The Rise of the North) by Artists from Stockholm, Sweden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uozLlmUhzZY
We’re From Minnesota by Michael Shynes
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1695969434724961
The Day They Shot Down Good by Allie Jean Burbrink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLMRMs6w_P4
Join Ice by Jesse Wells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4hlig78w
Streets of Minneapolis by Bruce Springsteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCfhGyRtqpM
White Sheets In The White Hous by Larry Long | Video Footage by Scott Taylor & Donna Freeberg
https://www.facebook.com/reel/24253058681059325
Minneapolis by Barb Ryman
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1387291583143290
Hope to Hell by The Gated Community
https://thegatedcommunity.bandcamp.com/album/hope-to-hell
Hand In Hand by The Okee Dokee Brothers
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3377472902420990
We Can Find Our Way by Mark Emanatian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6wrLwRSZYk
Drums & Taps by Jay Corkran on the Streets of First Avenue.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/4231468163731777
City of Heros by Billy Bragg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGW8
Change The World by Terry Esau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GT4cbQu1F8
Viva La Resistance
https://vivalaresistance.org
Winter Martyrs by Andrew Broder
https://andrewbroder.bandcamp.com/album/winter-martyrs?fbclid=IwY2xjawP0o-VleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFsRzBKekVNTkkyMDA5Zmdpc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqP68N5ckwi14tJWgRVWBCJTIu3f22DYFt2H2BpRLlT08Xcu4LW_XvKZ_GAO_aem_sCLZ-5Yta61hU_NOBDw6cw
How Long (Ice Out) by Peggy Johnson
https://www.facebook.com/1664208481/posts/10237123663825593/?
Nicollet Avenue by Billy Barber
https://youtu.be/6xB5nUHT2QQ?si=oipgtPGlIzSNroni
No Kings, No Hate, No Fear by Nils Lofgren
https://www.facebook.com/reel/826745559730025
For The Record (LIVE CAPTURE) by Jennifer Grimm https://youtu.be/8xjmGLuRsB4?si=1tBF_-NdoZupgtQQ
Ice Out of Minnesota by Melvin Veach
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1436783887954752
A Letter to Emerson by Greg Artzner Terry Leonino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V7e7NrA3zE
Singing Resistance: A movement of singers across the US singing in grief, power, and solidarity. Join the movement!
https://linktr.ee/singingresistance?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d707dc52-21a6-4ce5-b3a5-1d440409407f&fbclid=IwY2xjawP0-8dleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE2SVRuR1RCZnRvSDU0blBuc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqRF7fv0QX5IvQvqdcLjWwihpzy4VQ0Ke3jHl80tQ6xlPng42IvdyDjjaGC8_aem_W1GURsbC4J4y97sEjFRyCA