by Maggie Wheelerhttps://maggiewheeler.net/ Teaching page made 10/2018 Click here for a FREE download of the original, and to read Maggie's notes about it! Click here to learn more about Maggie's songbook, Walk With Me, which comes with a CD of teaching tracks! Maggie's Notes: This song came through at the end of a week of … Continue reading Walk With Me
Life and Death
I have recurrent moments in my life where I'm acutely aware of my body - this heavy, fragile, breathing organism inexplicably entrusted to my care for some as-yet undetermined number of decades. Embodiment is sometimes excruciating, often exhilarating, and rarely easy. When I have these moments of reaching my limits with embodiment, almost always the … Continue reading Life and Death
O Water
by Kaitie Ty Warren©2017Additional lyrics by Nik Warren©2024 Teaching page made 4/2018 Follow Kaitie: Patreon.com/KaitieTyFollow Nik: PathlessWorld.org In 2024, Kaitie and her dad, poet Nik Warren, collaborated to make a new set of lyrics from two of Nik's poems. Nik's notes: the line The Great Fish glides over me invokes a feeling of being underwater; … Continue reading O Water
Turn the World Around
by Harry Belafontehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte Teaching Page made 4/2018 In 1977, Harry Belafonte released the album Turn the World Around. After focusing on pop for several albums, it was a return to interpreting folk songs for other cultures, and was reviewed as "an absolute triumph". Despite being recorded here, it was never released in the US. The … Continue reading Turn the World Around
This Body
by Becky Reardon See, hear and support her work at BeckyReardonMusic.com from her album Songs For a Walk Teaching Page made 4/2018 https://youtu.be/UXuQMpUlb6c?si=5FphIctSDHtYbzjt Becky Reardon is a beloved figure in a the community singing world: revered elder, incredible songwriter, fun song leader, and long time community builder. Surprising intervals and complex rhythmic pivots are a … Continue reading This Body