Name: Las Esuegras de Agora by Chloe Pourmorady
Duration: 3 min 47 s
Description: Turkish-Sephardic folk song performed by Chloe Pourmorady, Brigitte Bogle, and Pontea Banayan. Arranged for 3 female voices.

this was one of my favorite live. your voice is so pure

Mimitzrayim gei'altanu umibeis avadim pedisanu.

(Translation: From Egypt/from the narrow place You redeemed us, from the house of enslavement You delivered us.)

May we continue fighting for collective liberation, for an end to mass incarceration, white supremacy, transphobia, and all forms of oppression.

Mimitzrayim Ge'altanu (Chabad) — Melody for Passover

Nign Shabbos V'Yom Tov (Chabad)

Poem by Aurora Levins Morales
Music by Avra
Support her work here: http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/support-aurora.html

Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up,
when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning
and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts,
embroider them on your garments, tattoo them on your shoulders,
teach them to your children, your neighbors, your enemies,
recite them in your sleep, here in the cruel shadow of empire:
Another world is possible.
 
Thus spoke the prophet Roque Dalton:
All together they have more death than we,
but all together, we have more life than they.
There is more bloody death in their hands
than we could ever wield, unless
we lay down our souls to become them,
and then we will lose everything.  So instead,
 
imagine winning.  This is your sacred task.
This is your power. Imagine
every detail of winning, the exact smell of the summer streets
in which no one has been shot, the muscles you have never
unclenched from worry, gone soft as newborn skin,
the sparkling taste of food when we know
that no one on earth is hungry, that the beggars are fed,
that the old man under the bridge and the woman
wrapping herself in thin sheets in the back seat of a car,
and the children who suck on stones,
nest under a flock of roofs that keep multiplying their shelter.
Lean with all your being towards that day
when the poor of the world shake down a rain of good fortune
out of the heavy clouds, and justice rolls down like waters.
 
Defend the world in which we win as if it were your child.
It is your child.
Defend it as if it were your lover.
It is your lover.
 
When you inhale and when you exhale
breathe the possibility of another world
into the 37.2 trillion cells of your body
until it shines with hope.
Then imagine more.  
 
Imagine rape is unimaginable. Imagine war is a scarcely credible rumor
That the crimes of our age, the grotesque inhumanities of greed,
the sheer and astounding shamelessness of it, the vast fortunes
made by stealing lives, the horrible normalcy it came to have,
is unimaginable to our heirs, the generations of the free.
 
Don’t waver. Don’t let despair sink its sharp teeth
Into the throat with which you sing.  Escalate your dreams.
Make them burn so fiercely that you can follow them down
any dark alleyway of history and not lose your way.
Make them burn clear as a starry drinking gourd
Over the grim fog of exhaustion, and keep walking.
 
Hold hands. Share water. Keep imagining.
So that we, and the children of our children’s children
may live

V'ahavta (poem by Aurora Levins Morales)

We Choose To Live

Shiru ladonai shir chadash; shiru ladonai kol ha'aretz. 
Shiru ladonai barechu shemo; basseru miyom leyom yeshu'ato. 
Sapperu bagoyim kevodo; bekhol ha'amim nifle'otav. 
Ki gadol adonai umhullal me'od; nora hu al kol elohim. 
Ki kol elohei ha'amim elilim; vadonai shamayim asa. 
Hod vehadar lefanav; oz vetif'eret bemikdasho. 
Havu ladonai mishpechot amim; havu ladonai kavod va'oz. 
Havu ladonai kevod shemo; se'u mincha uvo'u lechatzrotav. 
Hishtachavu ladonai behadrat kodesh; chilu mipanav kol ha'aretz. 
Imru vagoyim adonai malakh; af tikkon tevel bal timot; yadin amim bemesharim. Yismechu hashamayim vetagel ha'aretz; yir'am hayam umlo'o. 
Ya'aloz saday vekhol asher bo; az yerannenu kol atzei ya'ar. 
Lifnei adonai ki va; ki va lishpot ha'aretz. 
Yishpot tevel betzedek; ve'amim be'emunato.

Shiru L'Adonai: Psalm 96 (Carlebach)

Courage - adapted from the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement, sung as protesters were being taken to jail and as a way to learn people's’ names in the jail cells. 
Courage, my friend, you do not walk along. 
We will, walk with you, and sing your spirit home.

Courage

Turkish-Sephardic folk song performed by Chloe Pourmorady, Brigitte Bogle, and Pontea Banayan. Arranged for 3 female voices.

Las Esuegras de Agora

Tu B'shvat Nign

plains niggun

Origin:
Words & Melody by Macrina Wiederkehr & Velma Frye
This is a recording from NSP's Yom Kippur Community Singing Session in 2019

Words:
I will believe the truth about myself
No matter how beautiful it is

Singing Team - YK Melodies

I Will Believe the Truth About Myself

written by sol yael weiss & molly bajgot, sukkot 2018

mishpacha nigun

Chloé Pourmorady is a Persian-American violinist, vocalist, and composer best known for her wide range of musical expression spanning from western to modal music. A creative chameleon, Chloe writes pieces that are innovative and captivating to global audiences. She won the Global Music Awards in the World Music category for her debut album "Begin Majesty." In addition to performing, Chloe is a dedicated teacher of violin, singing, and songwriting, working with both children and adults. Chloe strives to be an advocate for peace through music and a vessel for pure creative expression.

Las Esuegras de Agora

Chloe Pourmorady

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