Workshop Notes and Materials
Echo Mirror
Standing in a circle.
One person sings a phrase with exaggerated body movements.
Group gives back the phrase as exactly as possible, echoing the pitch, tone quality, and color, and mirroring the body movement. Group members try to get inside the Caller’s voice and body.
Callers can sing their name, favorite food, or whatever the situation inspires. Sometimes nice for the same Caller to go twice, using the same words but varying the rhythm and melody of their phrase.
Go around the circle and use Frankie Quimby’s “Open Letter Method” – “open your mouth and let’er fly!” Frankie Quimby and her husband Doug led the Sea Island Singers along with their many children and grandchildren, and inspired by the great Bessie Jones.
Prayer Of St. Francis
composer unknown
PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS
May I be an instrument of peace
May I be an instrument of peace
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Flow River Flow
by Elliot Ray
C F C F
Flow river flow, flow on through.
Flow river flow, flow on through.
How can I know where you’re going to?
How can I know where you’re going to?
I can only know if I go with you.
I can only know if I go with you.
Skhandamayeza
Zulu song from South Africa
Skhandamayeza is a person not to be counted on, flighty, a trickster or “rubber neck”
Accompanied by Dance!
SKHANDAMAYEZA
Alto, Tenor Bass:
Skhandama-yeza (3x)
Skhandamayeza
Soprano:
Oile-oile
Ngwana oi
Up To You
Words by Elise Witt, composer unknown
Non Si Sa Mai Music ASCAP
Up To You
Listen up, it’s time to act
Time to move, and that’s a fact
Your head and your heart tell you what to do
Time is now, and it’s up to you!
This Healing
Traditional Zipper Song from the African American Tradition (church & Civil Rights Movement)
Zip in your own ideas of gratitude in place of (singing)
This Healing
Thank you for this singing
Thank you for this singing
Thank you for this singing
Thank you for this singing
This healing, this healing
This healing singing
This healing, this healing
This healing singing
Thank you for this ____________
