Archived Songs with Elise Witt
Sponsored by Carpe Diem Arts, the Daily Antidote of Song (DAS) started in April 2020, as an immediate artistic response to the pandemic. and the mental health challenges of isolation. With a different song leader teaching and leading a song each day, DAS offers a chance for people to sing, connect, hear some discussion, and share collective joy and inspiration to carry them through their day. As our nation and the world is tuning in more and more to systemic racism, homophobia, and “otherisms,” DAS focuses our lens even more strongly on racial and social justice, with songs and leaders that reflect some of the many crises as well as people and groups creating solutions. Now, at 1000+ days of programming, social justice is a major element of our singing community.
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2023
Aug. 27 – “I Love to Read” (by Elise Witt) hosted by Dr. Kim Harris https://youtube.com/live/e3lnf6hfBK8?feature=share
Aug. 26 – Elise hosts Dr. Kim Harris “Lovely Day” (by Bill Withers & Skip Scarborough) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiUmjYx8QIc
Aug. 16 – Elise hosts Will Robertson “Beauty” (by Will Robertson) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/803246711523039
July 24 – Elise hosts Terry Garthwaite “Shine On” (byTerry Garthwaite) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/792326182678730
July 18 – “Like” (by Elise Witt) hosted by Arnae Batson https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/1987170158282298
July 5 – Elise hosts Rebecca Mwase “Nsu ye eduro” (Fante from Ghana) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/237608415717452
July 2 – Elise hosts Alex Cumming “Coulter’s Candy aka Olly Bolly Bee” (Candy advertisement w/new arrangement by Alex Cumming for his daughter Olly) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/237608415717452
July 1 – Elise hosts Kate Munger “When Women Were Birds” (Music Kate Munger, words from Terry Tempest Williams) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/2013989728949868
June 30 – Maria Valentina Osal “Duerme mi Tripón” ( by Otilio Galindez,Venezuela)
https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/242166491939990
June 27 – Arnae Batson hosts Mick Kinney “Nothing Left to Chance” (by Mick Kinney) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/6448313945233617
June 26 – Elise hosts Jaka Skapin “O kresi se dan obesi” (improvisation with Slovenian folk saying) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/746548317161556
June 3 – Hubby Jenkins hosts Elise & Gayanne Geurin’s Eastern Shore MD Retreat, singing “Infinity” (Music by Terry Garthwaite with the poem “Belonging” by Alla Renée Bozarth) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/1261154564774451
May 15 – Elise sings “Bonne Nuit Lullaby” (by Mick Kinney), hosted by Katie Abadou https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/1358698918023735
May 1 – Elise hosts Billy Jonas “Open All the Doors and Windows” (by Billy Jonas) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/164364009619795
April 17 – Elise hosts Sarina Partridge “Who Could Have Imagied?” (by Sarina Partridge) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/1263966497546415
April 16 – Elise hosts Behomar Rojas “Duerme Negrito” (composer unknown, popularized by Ataualpa Yupanqui)
April 10 – Elise hosts Elizabeth Melvin “Free Myself” (by Elizabeth Melvin) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/779054890405684
April 7 – Elise hosts Dr. Kathy Bullock (It’s Your Season & It’s Another Day’s Journey) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/1291773691411499
Mar. 27 – Elise hosts Guillermo Rozenthuler “Duerme Negrito” (composer unknown, popularized by Ataualpa Yupanqui) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=57827142
Mar. 26 – Elise sings “My Salsa Garden” & “Dance with Me” https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/127248513647649
Feb. 19 – Elise hosts Tempe Redhawk “You Are Healed” (by Tempe Redhawk) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/556294189864653
Feb. 13 – Elise hosts Gayanne Geurin “If I Had a Hammer” (by Pete Seeger & Lee Hayes, new arrangement by Gayanne Geurin) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/982891579358414
Feb. 9 – Elise sings “Bioluminescence” (hosted by Shruti Vishwanath) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/726080008972019
Feb. 6 – Elise hosts Charlie King “Step Into the Holy Circle” https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/906194764153433
Feb. 5 – Elise hosts Okorefe Onovwerosuoke aka Fred O. “Anoma Ketewa” (Akan Chant from Ghana) & Chechere” (Akan Playsong from Ghana) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/1207206169908497
Jan. 30 – Elise hosts Guillermo Rozenthuler (London, Argentina) “Piantita de Aleli” (Huayno from Argentina) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=578271424156747
Jan. 29 – Elise hosts Kevn Kinney “Wishes” (by Kevn Kinney) https://www.facebook.com/100066850444665/videos/717424503424021
Jan. 14 – Elise hosts Natalia Calderón (Madrid, Spain) “Estoy Vivo y Toco” (Mùsica: Natalia Calderón; Poema: Dámaso Alonso) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/756848121958593
2022
Dec. 31 – Day 1000 of the Daily Antidote of Song: w/hosts from around the world, including the Amidons, Arnae Batson, Kathy Bullock, Andy Davis, Emma’s Revolution, Hubby Jenkins, Kim Harris, Reggie Harris, Joe Jencks, Munit Mesfin, Shruthi Vishwanath, Elise Witt, and with partners and hosting from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the Black Composers Commissioning Project, Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS), the Labor Heritage Foundation, Pinewoods Camp, Ubuntu Choirs Network, Village Harmony, Washington Revels, and many more. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87303995571
Day 1000 Part 1: https://fb.watch/hT_Lq3xvuh/
Day 1000 Part 2: https://fb.watch/hT_RqtRzpV/
Day 1000 Part 3: https://fb.watch/hT_SZ2hnMv/
Dec. 25 – Elise hosts Chinobay w/daughters Faith & Mercy “It’s Christmas” (by Chinobay, Faith, and Mercy) and “Jingle Bells” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/1227389377846492
Dec. 21 – Elise hosts Tret Fure “With You” (by Tret Fure) https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1354679372024979
Dec. 18 – Elise hosts Jaka Skapin ““Ledena sveča” (Icicle)an improvisation to a Slovenian poem by Svetlana Makarovič https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/903624757672285
Nov. 6 – Elise hosts Behomar Rojas w/Translator Kevin Ennis “Todo Es Mùsica (Everything is Music)” a canon by Behomar Rojas https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/468119492081545
Oct. 7 – Elise hosts Marquetta Dupree “We’ve Come a Long Way” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/1274881796580247
Oct. 3 – Elise hosts Hank Smith “Gotta Go Tap Dancin” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/468119492081545
Oct. 2 – Elise hosts Tufara Waller Muhammad “Seven Generations Song” (by the participants of Movement Strategy Center, facilitated by Tufara Waller Muhammad & Calvin Williams) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/468119492081545
Sept. 19 – Elise hosts Dear Ella: Ann Percival, Annie Patterson, Mary Witt – “The Book of Love” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/413433290899406
Sept. 12 – Elise hosts Mick Kinney “Cotton Mill Girl” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/482172563511341
Sept. 5 – Elise hosts Kristina Olsen “Cry You A River” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/599480815171890/
Sept. 2 – Elise hosts Deborah Spice Kleinmann “People Will Come Along” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/1118073295726628
Aug. 25 – “My Salsa Garden: Dance With Me” (by Elise Witt) hosted by Jaydn Brick https://fb.watch/f9cy6vcgGD/
Aug. 20 – Elise hosts Joanne Hammil “We Are Family” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/3260476027532675
July 31 – Elise hosts Gitanjali “Gitu” Jain “Morishe (My Daughter)” Hungarian Roma language
https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/1706116813060109
July 26 – “Thank You” (by Elise Witt) hosted by Arnae Batson
https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/728180478287163
July 25 – Elise hosts Gayanne Geurin “Sent by Wind and Spirit” (by Gayanne Geurin) written at Ossabaw Island, April 2022
https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/1126240274596063
June 28 – Elise hosts Edoardo Sansonne “Lassù sulle Montagne” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/698785497890640
June 2 – Elise hosts Sonja Morgenegg w/ Guillaume & Madalena ” Yodel” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/336682295326115
May 18 – Elise hosts Joanne Hammil “One Family” (by Joanne Hammil) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/961791814495554
May 15 – Elise hosts Sonja Morgenegg “Jo Bo Ho Bo” (Eastern Swiss yodel arranged by Sonja Morgenegg) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/948836135777241
April 18 – Elise hosts Sally Rogers “Gonna Plant Me a Garden” (by Sally Rogers) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/582601549448416
April 16 – Elise hosts Magpie Greg Artzner & Terry Leonino “Water is Life” “Build the World” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/579724623069707
April 14 – Year 3 quilt by Susan Glas https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/1105300420251766
April 11 – “Blessed Nation” (by Elise Witt) – David Roth hosting https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/380474533998917
April 10 – Elise hosts Arnae Batson & Jim Harkless “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”, “Oh No John” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/525345548964232
Mar. 12 – Elise hosts Shruthi Vishwanath “Kinaare Lagao,” “Down by the Riverside” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/3307910906162381
Feb. 19 – Elise hosts Jacque Howard “I Shall Not Be Moved,” “Joshua Fit the Battle of ericho” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/2590797327720422
Feb. 18 – Open the Window (Sea Islands Spiritual adapted by Elise Witt) – hosted by Dr. Kathy Bullock https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/549570576054950
Jan. 27 – Elise hosts Si Kahn “Journey Through This LIfe,” “Children of Poland” (by Si Kahn) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/315199153974632
TRAVELING & JOURNEYS
Jan. 24 – READY OR NOT (Song by Elise Witt, Video by Jessica Lily, with Art from around the globe) – Video Premiere w/Jessica Lily https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/357326212512439
MLK – CIVIL RIGHTS
Jan. 17 – Elise hosts Dr. Kim Harris “Oh Freedom” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/2110608479095317
NEW YEAR, NEW FRIENDS
Jan. 16 – Elise hosts Gayanne Geurin “Swimming Niggun” (by Gayanne Geurin) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/408028611111359
Jan. 5 – Elise hosts Becky Reardon “Don’t Give Up” (by Becky Reardon) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/226551536322444
Jan. 4 – Elise hosts Rosi & Brian Amador of Sol y Canto “Epidemia de Soledad / Epidemic of Lonliness” (by Brian Amador) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/1281393169013989
Jan. 3 – Elise hosts Rebekka Goldsmith “Loosen” (by Aly Halpert) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/606387190438539
2021
HISPANIC HERITAGE
- Oct. 4 – Elise hosts Colleen Kattau (Colombia) “Aguacero de Mayo”
- Oct. 9 – Elise hosts Francisco Herrera (Calexico) “Our Children are Sacred” (by Francisco Herrero) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/3137682503175489
- Oct. 10 – Elise hosts Maria Valentina Osal – (Venezuela) “El Periquito (the Parakeet)” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/408605740838337
Dec. 5 – “Give Thanks” (by Elise Witt) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/442714897251755
Dec. 18 – Elise hosts Peter & Mary Alice Amidon “Solstice Song,” “Shout for Joy” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/365664828657026
Sept. 27 – Oct. 3, 2021
GLOBAL VOICES WEEK curated & hosted by Elise Witt
* Elise hosts Marilena Anzini (Italy) “Ciwicé” (by Marilena Anzini)
https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/1038906536649102/
* Elise hosts Munit Mesfin (Ethiopia / Washington DC) “Astawasalehu (I Remember)” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/ 1546103442408100/
* Elise hosts Maria Tejada – (Ecuador / France) “Leyenda del Cacao” (by Maria Tejada) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/ 445198273598315/
* Elise hosts Behomar Rojas (Venezuela / Mexico) “My Darling” (Venezuelan Calipso arranged by Behomar Rojas) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/ 1053431338740150/
* Elise hosts Shruti Vishwanath (India ) “Vaishnava Jana To” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/2330584367072797/
* Elise hosts Lisset Rodés – (Cuba / Atlanta) “Damos Gracias (Give Thanks)” by Lisset Rodés https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/415529826676381/
* Elise hosts Gitanjali Jain – (Mexico / India /Canada) “Shiki Yewa in Shochitl” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/172864588251728/
Sept. 25, 2021
IMMIGRATION & HISPANIC HERITAGE hosted by Aryn Geier
* Peace Round (Composer unknown) in English, Spanish and Sign / “Todo Cambia (Everything Changes)” by Julio Numhauser https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/549827789578372/
*Todo Cambia (Julio Numhauser, Chile/Sweden) w/ Mick Kinney, on Laud https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/549827789578372
Aug. 23,2021
“In These Times” (by Jacquie Godden) hosted by David Roth (no video available)
July 5-11, 2021
ROOTS WEEK curated & hosted by Elise Witt
* Elise hosts Paula Larke “More Than a Beauty Mark” (by Paula Larke) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/226765205938898
* Elise hosts Nick Slie “We Gather Together” https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/1019625485445760
* Elise hosts Liza Garza & Eli Lakes “Grateful for This Love,” “Now I’m Free” (by Eli Lakes & Liza Garza) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/2980630502181248
* Elise hosts Carlton & Maurice Turner “I Know” (by Maurice & Carlton Turner aka M.U.G.A.B.E.E Men Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/ 2972637446395809
* Elise hosts Lydia Violet Hartoonian “Courange My Love, You Are Not Alone” (by Lydia Violet Hartoonian) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/236283165000541
* Elise hosts Sonia Osio “Sometimes Life” (by Sonia Osio) https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/1029559901121728
* Elise hosts Lisa Mount “That’s Mighty White of You” (by Lisa Mount( https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/142383014584561
April 5, 2021
1 Year Anniversary
Day 500, with a song by emma’s revolution: https://www.facebook.com/DailyAntidote/videos/ 306176264638642
Mar. 29, 2021
“I See You With My Heart” (by Elise Witt) Hosted by Dr. Kathy Bullock https://www.facebook.com/revelsdc/videos/3003942783166786/
* Women’s History month / Music in Schools month
https://www.facebook.com/revelsdc/videos/3003942783166786
Mar. 6, 2021
Elise hosts Lisset & Judith Rodés – “All Singing” (by Elise Witt) & “Lo Feo” (by Teresita Fernandez) https://www.facebook.com/revelsdc/videos/254792926131454/
* Women’s History month https://www.facebook.com/revelsdc/videos/254792926131454
Jan. 4, 2021
The day before Georgia’s special election for 2 Senate seats – Rev. Raphael Warnock & Jon Ossof, turning Georgia blue! https://www.facebook.com/revelsdc/videos/671180763559934
2020
Nov. 20, 2020
“Jenny Jenkins” https://www.facebook.com/revelsdc/videos/404137320944005
* Library of Congress, Smithsonian Folklife Archive Challenge
* Premiere “Jenny Jenkins” video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCmNNZIVZkw