Setlist from "In the Church & in the Streets: Music that Shapes the Soul & Rocks the World" (HNRS 4990)

Greetings!

If you're reading this you probably attended the Wednesday morning class of HNRS 4990 - In the Church & in the Streets: Music that Shapes the Soul & Rocks the World at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN.  

Here's the setlist of what we sang (with links to online recordings!) and a few other resources we referred to during our time together.

Opening setlist

• Lead with Love (Melanie DeMore) 
• Push (Liz Digitale Anderson)
• Syncopated Bismillah (words: traditional Islamic; Music & Movements: Fattah Kriner)

Set 1 - Songs from the Streets (with Liz)

• Rise Up (Charon Hribar and Jose Vasquez)
• I Still Hear My Brother/I Can't Breathe (Peace Poets)
• Hand in Hand (Jayanthi Kyle)
• Which Side Are You On, 1912/1931 (Florence Reece)
• Which Side Are You On/Freedom Side (Florence Reece/BLM) - Requiem for Mike Brown, 2014, St. Louis demonstration - background
• Solidarity Forever (Ralph Chaplin) - lyrics
• We Keep Us Safe (Liz Digitale Anderson)

Set 2 - Songs from Dances of Universal Peace (with Adam & Conie)

• Gate Gate (Words: from the Prajna-paramita Hridaya Sutra/Music & movements: Nikolai Stromonogov
• Spirit of Peace (Words & movements: Rev. Otto Zing & Neil Douglas Klotz/Music: traditional)
• Thy Light Is In All Forms (words: Hazrat Inayat Khan/Music & movements: Yakzan Valdez)

Closing Set

• Ya Shakur Allah (words: Arabic/music: Maboud and Tara Andrea Brunjes-Swierkosz) - first link to their instructional dance video; this link is to bandcamp.
• We're All Here To Get More Free (Liz Digitale Anderson)

We covered a lot of territory is a short amount of time.  One last question I would like to invite you into is "What is this all for?"

Resources

• Dances of Universal Peace:  local, regional, international websites
• Liz's Sound Cloud:  https://soundcloud.com/lizdigitaleanderson 
• Poor People's Campaign:  We Rise Songbook!  
• The Peace Poets:  Videos
• Justice Choir Songbook

Upcoming Events

• Heart Songs, virtual song circle:  Mon, Mar 14, 6:30-8p. Online.  Details here.  
• Full Moon Full Voice Song Circle:  Fri, Mar 18, 7:30-9p @ Yess Yoga, Mpls.  Register here.  See more details on fb or this blog.
• Freeing Refrains with guest Merle Geode: Stories, Songs, and Conversation:  Thu, Mar 24, 6:30-8:30p.  Online.  Register here.  More details on the blog.  

Be in Touch!

Interested in staying connected to do more singing and dancing?  Want to respond to our above question?  Email listening@pointsoflightmusic.net.  

Here's a list of song and sound interests we focus on. Let us know which event notices want to see in your inbox.

• General in-person song circles
• Sunday Morning Heretics, LGBTIA+ friendly (with Liz)
• Protests & Movement Spaces (with Liz)
• Soul Song, BIPOC-centered circle (with Conie and Liz)
• Dances of Universal Peace (with Conie and Adam) - events planned soon!
• Heart Songs, virtual song circle (with Conie)
• Biracial & Rural, community of care and storytelling space (with Conie)
• Full Voice Coaching (with Conie)

It was an honor and delight to share sound, space, and breath with each of you.  May these songs nourish your heart and fire for a just world.  

Conie, Liz, and Adam