Jun 22-29: Song Smorgasbord!

Here's a buffet of song possibilities this week.  Join us for one or all!   

• Mon, Jun 22 - Retrain Your Lizard Brain
• Wed, Jun 24 - Protecting Sacred Lands
• Thu, Jun 25 - Online* Song Leader Training 101: For Social Action
• Fri, Jun 26 - Songs for Tending Our Hearts
• Mon, Jun 29 - Singing for Liberation

More details about each under each image.  

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Retrain Your Lizard Brain:  Somatic Singing for Trauma Awareness + Resilience

Mon, Jun 22, 6:30-8:30p (not Jun 25 🤦)
Location: New City Center, near 31st + Bloomington, Mpls.
With Good Trouble.  

😷

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Protecting Sacred Lands:  Song Circle + Meeting

Wed, Jun 24, 6:30-8:30p 

Location: Creekside UCC, I-35W + Diamond Lake Rd, Mpls.

With The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, Music That Makes Community, Center for Sustainable Justice, and Singing Resistance TC. 

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Online Songleader Training 101: for Social Action

Thu, Jun 25, 6-8p CT 

Location:  Online

with Music That Makes Community. 

Register: https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/virtual_101_20260625

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Songs for Tending Our Hearts: a song circle for grief and the weight of the weary world

Fri, Jun 26, 7:30-9p 

Location: Yess Yoga, near 26th + Nicollet, Mpls. 

With Good Trouble. 

Register: https://www.yessyogastudio.com/yoga-workshops/

 

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Bonus!!!

Singing for Liberation: Monthly Songleader Incubator Circle

Mon, Jun 29, 6:30-8:30p 

Location: CTUL, near George Floyd Square, Mpls. 

Open to new/experienced songleaders, drummers, and all singers!

With Good Trouble. 

 

*Dec 5*, Jan 9: Songs for Tending Our Hearts

When it feels like the world is falling apart, when everything is literally on fire, singing in community together heals and centers us—we’re not alone.

Our culture desperately needs spaces where it is safe to feel your sorrow and the weight of the world. Come sing through the small and large griefs in your life and give them space to breathe.

Dates: 

- Friday, December 5, 2025

- Friday, January 9, 2026

Time:  7:30-9p
Where: Yess Yoga
105 E 26th St, Mpls

Song leaders C. Onyx Li and Liz Digitale Anderson (aka GOOD TROUBLE)

hold care-filled circles for you to find freedom in your voice, de-stress your nervous system, and move your body.

Every voice is welcome! We teach all the songs call and response- just open your mouth and echo back. We’ll sing songs to ground you, heal you, and help you breathe in the days to come.

Pre-register + pay what you can here: https://www.yessyogastudio.com/yoga-workshops/
$5-$20 sliding scale (No one turned away for lack of funds; we want you there!) You can also pay on the door.


**Notes**
- Masks May Be Required when Covid is surging. Masks will be available.
- We're in a yoga studio, so we ask people to leave their shoes at the entrance to keep the studio clean. If you want to bring a clean pair of indoor shoes to support your feet that's fine. Thank you!

- We'll be in the second floor studio.  Folks can choose to use the elevator or the stairs.

- Seating:  There are a variety of yoga mats, bolsters, and blankets available, plus folding chairs for those who prefer not to be on the floor.  

- Transit: Buses 11 and 18 are a block away.  (https://www.metrotransit.org/)

- Bikes:  There is a bike rack out in front of the studio.

- Parking: can be kind of tight around here.  Yess Yoga does have a parking lot adjacent to the studio off the alley (map), but it's not huge so leave yourself some extra time to find a spot!  

Oct 24: The BIPOC Good Cry

 

What:  The BIPOC Good Cry

When:  Friday, Oct 24, 7-9 p.m.

Where:  Meraki Community, 100 W 46th St., Minneapolis
(where Yoga Sanctuary is; former Solomon's Porch building)

More details on Facebook.

*Dec 4*: Retrain Your Lizard Brain

What: Retrain Your Lizard Brain: Somatic Singing for Trauma Awareness and Resilience
When: Thu, Sept 25, Nov 11, *Dec 4*, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Where: New City Center for Healing Justice, 3104 16th Ave S, Minneapolis

How do we rewire our brains from the lies the domination system baked into us? How can we uproot and compost the harms from patriarchy, capitalism, ableism, oppression ugh ugh ugh and root down instead into our dignity, worth, and interconnectedness?

Singing is one way to start rewiring your brain and helping your body live into a different story. One breath at a time, one phrase at a time, repeated over and over in community, til we live and sing our way into a new way of being together, belonging to one another.

This isn’t singing for performance or perfection; this is singing for healing and connection. We’d love you to join us.

Suggested donation $10-50; No one turned away for lack of funds, we want you there.

What to bring with you: 

- A mask!  Those pesky viruses are still going around!  Keep everyone in your community safe.

- Water to drink!

- A yoga mat and/or seating that works for you.  This work invites full body participation so bring items that will support you being on the floor and on your feet.  Chairs are available for those who need them.

Sept 25: Retrain Your Lizard Brain at New City

What:  Retrain Your Lizard Brain: Somatic Singing for Trauma Awareness and Resilience

When:  Thu, Sept 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Where: New City Center for Healing Justice, 3104 16th Ave S, Minneapolis 

How do we rewire our brains from the lies the domination system baked into us? How can we uproot and compost the harms from patriarchy, capitalism, ableism, oppression ugh ugh ugh and root down instead into our dignity, worth, and interconnectedness?

Singing is one way to start rewiring your brain and helping your body live into a different story. One breath at a time, one phrase at a time, repeated over and over in community, til we live and sing our way into a new way of being together, belonging to one another.

This isn’t singing for performance or perfection; this is singing for healing and connection. We’d love you to join us.

Suggested donation $10-50; No one turned away for lack of funds, we want you there.

Setlist for Good Trouble's set at 9/20 Coming Together

Dear Friends,

If you're reading this, you might have joined Good Trouble at Pershing Park in Minneapolis on Saturday morning (Sept 20) for Coming Together: Singing for Courage, Resilience, + Hope.  Thanks for joining us!

Here is the list of the songs we sang with links to online recordings:

• Put Your Roots Down (Molly Hartwell) - a webpage of the original and several variations that have sprung from it!  
• Heart Flies Open (Ian Carrick) -  Ian's website 
• It’s ok, if you’re not ok (Kira Seto) -  Instagram post 
• How many times will my heart be broken (Liza Walker) - Audio on Google Drive 
• We were made for these times (Clarissa Pinkola Estes/Linda Noonan) - Video on Facebook 
• You Were Born to Be Seen (Moon Clemetson) - Video on Patreon website 
• Healing is Possible (Orion Johnstone) - SoundCloud Audio 

* no known recording online. Please share in the comments if you find one!

Much gratitude to the Fulton Neighborhood Association for sponsoring the overall event and Pershing Park staff for hosting the event and a rain location if needed.    

We would love to have you be part of the community that sings and makes life together, feeling all of the griefs and celebrations. Join our mailing lists (both of us have one) for upcoming song circle announcements by sending your email to goodtrouble@pointsoflightmusic.net with a subject line of "Pls add me to your singing list".

Notes on Instruments

• CajonTab by Louson Drum - Get to know a bit of the cajon's musical history here. (Here's an affiliate link to get 10% off).

Sept 20: Come Together: Singing for Courage, Resilience, and Hope

Coming Together:  Singing for Courage, Resilience, and Hope

Day:  Saturday, September 20th (rain or shine)
Time:  10 am - 1 pm 
Where:  Pershing Park, 3523 W 48th St, Minneapolis

Singing together is one of the best ways we have to find hope in hard times and anchor our courage for the work to come. Community singing is open to all: if it would lift your spirits, we hope you will join us.

Every voice is welcome – there's no sheet music and you don't need to "know what you're doing,” just simply open your mouth and echo back line by line.

We'll teach simple, easy to learn songs to help us connect, heal, and create joy together.

Schedule!

𝟭𝟬 𝗮𝗺- 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝘆!

Fun with songs, instruments, and dancing scarves with Liz, aimed at ages 0-6 with caregivers.

𝟭𝟭 𝗮𝗺- 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲:

For all ages! with GOOD TROUBLE, aka Liz Digitale Anderson and C. Onyx Li

𝟭𝟮 𝗽𝗺- 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗠. 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿:

Circle songs, spontaneous singing, and musical improv games: magic created on the spot together!

Come for one session or stay for them all!

What to Bring - 

• Your voice, a water bottle, a blanket or a camp chair to sit on
• Bring a picnic lunch and stay to play in the park afterwards!
• If it's raining, we'll be indoors in the gym at Pershing Park.

This family-friendly event is FREE thanks to the Fulton Neighborhood Association. 

Setlist for 9/4 Singing for Grief: After Annunciation

Dear Friends,

If you're reading this, you might have attended the Singing for Grief: after Annunciation circle at Creekside UCC in Minneapolis on Thursday night, September 4, 2025. Though this tragedy should not have happened, we take solace in feeling our grief together through song, in community.

I, C., was listening to a podcast of Francis Weller and Thomas Hubl, the morning after this, speaking of Grief Rituals and Soul Hygiene and Embracing the Wisdom of Grief, and commend them to you if creating communal space for grief is new to you.

Here is the list of the songs we sang with links to online recordings:

• Holding Song (Ian Carrick) - Instagram video + Bandcamp audio with parts
• We Know that Grief is Boundless* (Sarina Partridge) - many of Sarina's songs are on SoundCloud and Bandcamp, but this one is not so we are sharing her website so you can explore the many aspects of MSP local Sarina.
• The Center Will Hold (text: Brene Brown, from Atlas of the Heart; music: clb) -  Mixcord video 
• Don’t numb to this (Abigail Bengson) - Instagram video
• Grief (Sarina Partridge) - Bandcamp audio + SoundCloud audio
• Stone by Stone (Taya Ma) - Bandcamp audio
• One Body (Ahlay Blakely) - Instagram video + included in Bandcamp album "Wails: Songs for Grief" 
• We Belong to Each Other (words: James Baldwin; tune: Annie Rambeau) -  SoundCloud audio 
• Carry This All (Ahlay Blakely) - Bandcamp audio 

* no known recording online. Please share in the comments if you find one!

Writings included: 

• from Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. adrienne maree brown
• "Every bombed village is my hometown".  James Baldwin

Much gratitude to Bree and Linnea of Creekside UCC for welcoming this circle into their space and supporting it so abundantly.  Deep bows to the three therapists who volunteered their time to hold the hearts and voices of those who wanted more support.  

We are so heartened by each of you who attended.  Whether you had close ties to Annunciation Church and School or just have the tender heartstrings feeling our interconnectedness to this tragedy and the ones that have come before it, I (C.) trust that all of us are doing the work of listening to the pain of grief that is current and present and also that of our ancestors that has gone unheard, unprocessed, and is among the ghosts surrounding us (listen to the first episode above). There is so much work we need to do in this space of communal grief and I'm glad we all took a step towards tending that last night.  

We would love to have you be part of the community that sings and makes life together, feeling all of the griefs and celebrations. Below are a few events coming up that you are invited to. If you'd like to be added to the email lists (both of us have one) for song circle announcements, please send your email to goodtrouble@pointsoflightmusic.net with a subject line of "Pls add me to email list".

Notes on Instruments

• CajonTab by Louson Drum - Get to know a bit of the cajon's musical history here. (Here's an affiliate link to get 10% off).
  
• Shruti Box, literally "sound" or "singing" in ancient Sankrit, replicates the sound of the Tambura, an East Asian Indian drone instrument. Part of the family of drone instruments that show up in many cultures, related to bagpipes and harmoniums. C.'s instrument is from Shrutibox.com, run by Ron Kravitz of https://www.musicinthemoment.com/ in Philadelphia, PA; Ron has recently retired and is pointing folks to https://www.shrutibox.co.uk/. (Talk to C. if you're thinking about buying new or used).

Upcoming Events

Coming together: Singing for Courage, Resilience and Hope 

  When: Sat, Sept 20, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
  Where: Pershing Park, 3523 W 48th St. Mpls
  More Details: Facebook

Retrain Your Lizard Brain: Somatic Singing for Trauma Awareness + Resilience

  When:  Thu, Sept 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

  Where:  New City Center, 3104 16th Ave S, Mpls

  RSVP: coming soon.

Songs For Tending Our Hearts:  a song circle for grief and the weight of the weary world. 

  When:  TBA

  Where:  Yess Yoga, 105 E 26th St, Mpls

  Pre-register + pay what you can: Yess Yoga's website:  https://www.yessyogastudio.com/yoga-workshops/

Aug 8: Songs for Tending Our Hearts

When it feels like the world is falling apart, when everything is literally on fire, singing in community together heals and centers us—we’re not alone.

Our culture desperately needs spaces where it is safe to feel your sorrow and the weight of the world. Come sing through the small and large griefs in your life and give them space to breathe.

When: Friday August 8, 7:30-9p
Where: Yess Yoga
105 E 26th St, Mpls

Song leaders Conie Borchardt and Liz Digitale Anderson (aka GOOD TROUBLE)

hold care-filled circles for you to find freedom in your voice, de-stress your nervous system, and move your body.

Every voice is welcome! We teach all the songs call and response- just open your mouth and echo back. We’ll sing songs to ground you, heal you, and help you breathe in the days to come.

Pre-register + pay what you can here: https://www.yessyogastudio.com/yoga-workshops/
$5-$20 sliding scale (No one turned away for lack of funds; we want you there!) You can also pay on the door.


**Notes**
- Masks May Be Required when Covid is surging. Masks will be available.
- We're in a yoga studio, so we ask people to leave their shoes at the entrance to keep the studio clean. If you want to bring a clean pair of indoor shoes to support your feet that's fine. Thank you!

- We'll be in the second floor studio.  Folks can choose to use the elevator or the stairs.

- Seating:  There are a variety of yoga mats, bolsters, and blankets available, plus folding chairs for those who prefer not to be on the floor.  

- Transit: Buses 11 and 18 are a block away.  (https://www.metrotransit.org/)

- Bikes:  There is a bike rack out in front of the studio.

- Parking: can be kind of tight around here.  Yess Yoga does have a parking lot adjacent to the studio off the alley (map), but it's not huge so leave yourself some extra time to find a spot!  

May 30: Songs for Tending Our Hearts

When it feels like the world is falling apart, when everything is literally on fire, singing in community together heals and centers us—we’re not alone.

Our culture desperately needs spaces where it is safe to feel your sorrow and the weight of the world. Come sing through the small and large griefs in your life and give them space to breathe.

When: May 30, 7:30-9p
Where: Yess Yoga
105 E 26th St, Mpls

Song leaders Conie Borchardt and Liz Digitale Anderson (aka GOOD TROUBLE) hold care-filled circles for you to find freedom in your voice, de-stress your nervous system, and move your body.

Every voice is welcome! We teach all the songs call and response- just open your mouth and echo back. We’ll sing songs to ground you, heal you, and help you breathe in the days to come.

Pre-register + pay what you can here: https://www.yessyogastudio.com/yoga-workshops/
$5-$20 sliding scale (No one turned away for lack of funds; we want you there!) You can also pay on the door.


**Notes**

- Masks May Be Required when Covid is surging. Masks will be available.
- Parking can be kind of tight around this block - leave yourself some extra time to find a spot!
- As we're in a yoga studio, we ask people to leave their shoes at the entrance to keep the studio clean. If you want to bring a clean pair of indoor shoes to support your feet that's fine. Thank you!

May 18: Street Song Concert

Good Trouble has been delighted to be the co-directors for Street Song, a choir of folks who have experienced homelessness and those who love them. We're having a season finale concert soon with Chorus Polaris and Ken Medema.  Join us!

When:  Sunday, May 18, 3 p.m.

Where:  Westminster Hall at Westminster Presbyterian, 1200 S. Marquette Ave, Mpls

Tickets:  https://givebutter.com/A-Place-to-Call-Home

*May 13*: Retrain Your Lizard Brain

What: Retrain Your Lizard Brain: Somatic Singing for Trauma Awareness and Resilience
When: Tuesday, April 15 + May 13, 2025, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Where: New City Center, 3104 16th Ave S, Minneapolis
Register: Eventbrite.  Sliding scale.  

Masks up please!

See details from previous events here.  

We welcome walk-in registration, so come even if the Eventbrite is closed.  You can make a donation on Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute's GiveMN site with a note "Lizard Brain" and the date.   

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Last Mondays: Singing for Liberation (June 2, 30, Jul 28, Aug 25)

 

What:  Singing For Liberation

When: Last Mondays of the Month 2025, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
- NOTE:  May's session is rescheduled for Mon, June 2

Where:  CTUL/IX, 3715 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis

Mar 27: Retrain Your Lizard Brain in St. Paul

 

What:  Retrain Your Lizard Brain: Somatic Singing for Trauma Awareness and Resilience

When:  Thursday, March 27, 2025, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Where:  Dendros Group, University Ave, St. Paul

Register:  Eventbrite

Mar 6: Visiting Songleader Lu Aya

 

What:  Come Sing + Learn with Lu Aya

When:  Thursday, March 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Where:  CTUL/IX, 3715 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis

Suggested Donation: $10-20, no one turned away for lack of funds

Come sing and learn with Lu Aya of The Peace Poets!

Lu is a legendary movement songleader and hip-hop/spoken word artist, and one of the co-founders of The Peace Poets. The short, singable, memorable songs that The Peace Poets have been seeding throughout movement organizing work have supported Black Lives Matter, the climate crisis, Stop Line 3, Palestinian liberation, and more. Lu is the author of the HARMONIZING ORGANIZING manifesto our local movement songleaders have been learning from - we are so grateful he is coming to Minneapolis! Come sing with him and learn from him (we will probably wind up writing a song on the spot together!)

Masks strongly encouraged

***Childcare available!***

Setlist from 2025 Tending Your Heart, Tending Your Fire Retreat

Dear Friends,

If you're reading this, you might have attended the Tending Your Fire, Tending Your Heart retreat for Twin Cities Organizers + Mutual Aid Folx from Friday, February 21 through Sunday, February 23, 2025. Thank you for carrying a load for your community in a season of deep service and to lay it all down for a weekend to receive some spaciousness and care.

Here is a list of the songs we sang over the weekend with links to online recordings.

• Carry This All (Ahlay Blakely) 
• Come and Gather Round the Table (adapted from Fly Away Home) - ask Liz for a recording
• Endless Boundless Gratitude (Samara Jade)
• Gather / We Are Not Alone (Joanna Laws Landis)
• Healing is Possible (Orion Johnstone)
• (Hey There) Abolish (adapted from Hey There Delilah by Plain White T’s) - Video-chorus: Video-verse: 
• I am receiving (Lyndsey Scott) 
• I did not come here alone (The Peace Poets)
• I think you shouldn't do more (Gloria's song) - see the link in the post-retreat email
• I send my hope (Jordan Mudd) 
• Liberation, Solidarity (adapted from Earth My Body) - ask Liz for all the words
• Loosen, Loosen (Aly Halpert) - OR https://youtu.be/X-_7XfaS7Mc
• Net of Remembrance (Ahlay Blakely) - youtube
• O Bless the Food* (Okie Dokie Brothers?)
• Open Sentences (Ahlay Blakely)
• The Way Knows the Way (Lyndsey Scott) - plus https://thebirdsings.com/thewayknows/; and new album https://lyndseyscott.bandcamp.com/track/the-way-knows
• There is enough (Kerri Meyer) 

* no known recording online. Please share in the comments if you find one!

** the composer/catcher of this song is not known to us. If you do know, please pass it on in the comments. :)

Here's a list of Resources:

Oracle Card Decks 

Having a tangible tool to sit with and reflect our feelings back to us helps us slow down, process, and make space for emotional work and intentions we otherwise tend to ignore. 

• Rest Deck by Tricia Hersey (https://thenapministry.com/rest-deck/) based on Hersey's book "Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto"
• Sacred Incantations: rituals of trans wisdom for every season - from Enfleshed.

Buddha Board 

https://buddhaboard.com/

Instruments

• CajonTab by Louson Drum - Liz has one of the Pro series. Get to know a bit of the cajon's musical history here. Use Liz's affiliate link to get 10% off.
• Shruti Box, literally "sound" or "singing" in ancient Sankrit, replicates the sound of the Tambura, an East Asian Indian drone instrument. Part of the family of drone instruments that show up in many cultures, related to bagpipes and harmoniums. Conie's instrument is from Shrutibox.com run by Ron Kravitz of https://www.musicinthemoment.com/ in Philadelphia, PA

Gratitude for Episcopal House of Prayer at Collegeville for providing the gift of this Community Retreat.  

May all of these resources support you in your work and in your rest.

Liz and Conie, a.k.a. Good Trouble 

*Mar 7*: Songs for Tending Our Hearts

When it feels like the world is falling apart, when everything is literally on fire, singing in community together heals and centers us—we’re not alone.

Our culture desperately needs spaces where it is safe to feel your sorrow and the weight of the world. Come sing through the small and large griefs in your life and give them space to breathe.

When: Bimonthly Fridays in 2025, 7:30-9p

• Jan 17
• Mar 7

Where: Yess Yoga, 

105 E 26th St, Mpls

Song leaders Conie Borchardt and Liz Digitale Anderson (aka GOOD TROUBLE) hold care-filled circles for you to find freedom in your voice, de-stress your nervous system, and move your body.

Every voice is welcome! We teach all the songs call and response- just open your mouth and echo back. We’ll sing songs to ground you, heal you, and help you breathe in the days to come.

Pre-register + pay what you can here: https://www.yessyogastudio.com/yoga-workshops/
$5-$20 sliding scale (No one turned away for lack of funds; we want you there!) You can also pay on the door.

**Notes**

- Masks May Be Required when Covid is surging. Masks will be available.
- Parking can be kind of tight around this block - leave yourself some extra time to find a spot! 
- As we're in a yoga studio, we ask people to leave their shoes at the entrance to keep the studio clean. If you want to bring a clean pair of indoor shoes to support your feet that's fine. Thank you!

Winter 2025: Singing for Liberation Songleader Incubator Series!

SINGING FOR LIBERATION: We're excited to be offering an 8-week series this winter to train up more songleaders for movement work! Singing is an essential organizing tool and we want to help you learn more songs, grow more confident in leading them, and think through how singing functions in building the world we want to live in.

We'll meet on Monday nights at CTUL, from 6:30-8 pm, starting January 6, 2025 and ending February 24th. Folx can come just to sing and drop in as they please, or come to all the sessions with the intention of practicing their songleading and skilling up.

Liberation movements throughout history have taught us that singing together helps us celebrate, march, grieve, stay true to our vision, and that the songs anchor our courage for the work to come. We're not singing to perform, we're singing because it changes us-- every voice is needed in the movement.

Songleading will be anchored by GOOD TROUBLE, aka Liz Digitale Anderson + Conie Borchardt, and friends. We're grateful to be partnering with Inquilinxs Unidxs and CTUL to make this happen! A sliding scale donation is requested of $5-20 per session, or $30-$100 for the whole series, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Pre-register your interest here and we'll send you reminders when it's time to roll!
https://forms.gle/U8WtG35GoGngXSMr5

Facebook link here.

Hosted at CTUL (Centro De Trabajadores Unidos En La Lucha) + Inquilinxs Unidxs @ 3715 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis

Setlist from Nov 22: Songs for Tending Our Hearts @ Yess Yoga

Friends,

Here are the songs we sang at Songs for Tending Our Hearts at Yess Yoga on Friday night, November 22, 2024:

• Holding Song (Ian Carrick) - Bandcamp
• The Hard Times (text: Bertolt Brecht; tune: Ahlay Blakely)
• One Body (Ahlay Blakely) - Bandcamp
• Grief (Sarina Partridge)
• The Cure for the Pain (text inspired by Rumi; tune: Yam)
• Tubwayhun lawile, trans: Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted (Neil Douglas-Klotz)
• What are we gonna do with all this grief (main lyric from Prentis Hemphill’s book, “What It Takes to Heal,” tune by Liz with melodic frame influenced by Ana Hernandez’s “Set it right again”, Black Blues + Spirituals, and Whiskey Shivers’ “Who’s gonna dig these graves”) 

* An online audio or video recording has not been found. Let us know if you find one in the comments!

Some of you asked about the Resources we shared. Here's a short list...

• About the Card Decks: Having a tangible tool to sit with and reflect our feelings back to us helps us slow down, process, and make space for emotional work and intentions we otherwise tend to ignore. We typically spread out two: 
1.  The Artist Grief Deck (https://griefdeck.com/) which was created by hospice workers during the pandemic
2. and the Rest Deck by Tricia Hersey (https://thenapministry.com/rest-deck/) based on Hersey's book "Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto"
• Instruments we use: 
• CajonTab by Louson Drum - Conie has a 12" CajonTab; Liz has one of the Pro series. Get to know a bit of the cajon's musical history here. Use Liz's affiliate link to get 10% off!
• Shruti Box, literally "sound" or "singing" in ancient Sankrit, replicates the sound of the Tambura, an East Asian Indian drone instrument. Part of the family of drone instruments that show up in many cultures, related to bagpipes and harmoniums. Conie's instrument is from Shrutibox.com run by Ron Kravitz of https://www.musicinthemoment.com/ in Philadelphia, PA
• Where else to sing in the Twin Cities? There's three places you can check! 
• Twin Cities Singing Circles (Facebook group)
• Perfection-Free Community Singing (Facebook group)
• AND this Google Doc of regular circles that Liz DA put together.

We are grateful to you if sang with us and to Yess Yoga for hosting.

If you'd like reminders of upcoming singing gatherings, sign up for the In-person Sings/Good Trouble mailing list here to get an email beforehand. Or just check the Yess Yoga's website.

Keep singing and stay warm, graceful, and creative!

Love, Liz and Conie, a.k.a. GOOD TROUBLE

Setlist from Nov 8 Singing for Liberation potluck

Here are the songs we sang at the Singing for Liberation potluck on Friday night, November 8 at CTUL/Inquilixs Unidxs.  Enjoy the links to online recordings for your at-home remembering pleasure!

• Endless Boundless Gratitude (Samara Jade)
• Liberation (Liz adapted from Earth, My Body tune, unknown creator)
• I did not come here alone (The Peace Poets)
• I am not afraid (Peace Poets)
• What are we gonna do with all this grief (main lyric from Prentis Hemphill’s book, “What It Takes to Heal,” tune by Liz with melodic frame influenced by Ana Hernandez’s “Set it right again”, Black Blues + Spirituals, and Whiskey Shivers’ “Who’s gonna dig these graves”)
• Another world (inspired by Arundhati Roy/Kerri Meyer; Spanish by LDA)
• Organize! Organize! Organize! (adapted by Charon Hribar, in We Rise: A Movement Songbook by The Poor People’s Campaign)
• Lead with Love (Melanie DeMore)
• We get there together (Or never get there at all) (Josh Blaine)

* no online recording available. If you discover one, please let us know in the comments!

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