A few resources to get you going!

Sing Out Magazine
RockrGrl Magazine
People's Music Network

I will start with Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon

 

 

 

And, in no particular order...

Pete Seeger Buffy Sainte-Marie Nobuko Sweet Honey in The Rock Ulali Toshi Reagon Ember Swift Pamela Means Copper Wimmin Ferron Joe Jencks emma's revolution (Pat Humphries/Sandy O) Wishing Chair Nedra Johnson Melanie deMoore Cris Williamson John McCutcheon Linda Tillery and The Cultural Heritage Choir Tao Rodriguez-Seeger and The Mammals Arlo Guthrie and family Liche Fuentes Rhiannon Ronnie Gilbert Cheryl Wheeler Peggy Seeger Laura Love Deidre McCalla Jennifer Berezan Betty MUSE (women's chorus in Cincinnati, Ohio) Peter Paul and Mary Steve Earle Tish Hinojosa Larry Long Alice Gerrard Bill Staines David Roth Peter Alsop Mary Watkins Rafael Manriquez Elise Witt Betsy Rose Gary Lapow Gerry Tenney Bonnie Lockhart Jon Fromer Tom Chapin Guy Davis Cosy Sharidan Bob Franke Dar Williams Ani DiFranco Eliza Gilkyson Lowen and Navarro The Kennedys Keb' Mo' Kim and Reggie Harris Zoe Lewis Beverly Grant Rosalli Sorrels Sloan Wainwright Tret Fure Magpie The Klezmatics Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer Faith Petric Lil' Rev Greg Brown Tom Waits Anne Hills Hazel Dickens Indigo Girls Janis Ian Joan Baez Ellis Amy Carol Webb Amy Speace Mary Chapin Carpenter Robin Flower and Libby McClaren

Kate Campbell Libby Roderick Jaimie Anderson Ubaka Hill John Trudell (spoken word) Ellis Paul Vance Gilbert Christine Lavin Catie Curtis The Dance Brigade (no recordings but go see them!) Leonard Cohen Bill Steele Jackson Browne Judy Collins Lucy Kaplansky Sara Thomsen Amy Martin Tracy Grammer Garnet Rogers David Rovics Richie Havens Peter Donnelly Dangerous Folk Radio Free Earth Linq Mary Wheelan Kate Long James Durst The Work o' the Weavers Ron Romanovsky Four Bitchin' Babes Dave Lippman Lynn Frances Anderson Colleen Kattau José "Pepo" Saavedra Carrrie Newcomer Neil Young Prince Myshkins SONiA (yes spelled like that) Llajtasuyo Chestnut Brothers Kuumba Lynx Charlie King and Karen Brandow Francisco Herrera Andrew McKnight Big Wide Grin Bruce Kunkel Rod MacDonald Freebo John Batdorf Randall Williams Ted Warmbrand Georges Lammam Karl Anthony Michael Franti and Spearhead Girlyman Arjuna Griest Melissa Crabtree Rachael Kilgour Green and Root Eileen Hazel Tracy Chapman Bill Miller Joanne Shenandoah Bright Eyes Faith Nolan Joe Glazer Si Kahn Fred Small Anne Feeney Mark Erelli Nanci Griffith Bonnie Raitt John Flynn Country Joe McDonald Len Chandler Joe Uehlein Richard Shindell Roy Zimmerman Taproot Evie Ladin and the Stairwell Sisters

 

Just to get this list started...

Inti Illimani
Eduardo Peralta (Chile)
Ladysmith Black Mombaza (South Africa)
Youssou N'dour (Senegal)
Roy Brown (Puerto Rico)
Quilapayun (Europe/Chile)
Silvio Rodgriquez (Cuba)
Judy Small (Australia)
Tom Robinson (England)
Bruce Cockburn (Canada)
Billy Bragg (England)
Eric Bogle (Australia)
Yungchen Lhamo (Tibet)
The No Shit Shirleys (Vancouver BC)
Sara Gonzales (Cuba)
Simone Shaheen (USA/Near East)
Marcel Khalife (Lebanon)
Tommy Sands (Ireland)

Kate Clinton
Lily Tomlin
Dick Gregory
Alix Olson

 

 

Out of our sight, but not out of mind...

Mercedes Sosa (Argentina)
Nina Simone
Woody Guthrie
Freida Epstein
Phil Ochs
Kaye Gardner
June Jordon
Ossie Davis
Marion Anderson
Lee Hayes
Victor Jara
Pablo Cassals
Pablo Naruda
Paul Robeson
Odetta
Utah Phillips
Miriam Makeba
Bill Morrissey (2011)
Therese Edell (2011)
Odetta (2008)
Mary Travers (2009)
Gil Scott Heron (2011)
Hazel Dickens (2011)