Rise Up Singing is a popular group singing songbook conceived, developed, and edited by Annie Patterson and Peter Blood. It is the best-selling popular folk music collection in the United States and Canada, having sold over a million copies. since being published in 1988. Rise Up Singing contains words, chords, and sources to 1200 songs. Although the book is weighted towards folk music, it includes a wide variety of song genres including gospel, popular music, and Broadway show tunes that work well in sing-along settings. A sequel called Rise Again Songbook was released in 2015, containing lyrics and chords to 1200 more songs. The book is very popular,