Song Village 2024

We are all in love with this song... 

Lyrics by Robert MacFarlane & Jackie Morris (from their book “The Lost Words Spells) - Honoring words from the natural word that have been disappearing from the dictionary. 

Music by Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Kerry Andrew, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter, Jim Molyneux. 

The form of the song is inspired by Scottish Gaelic.

Watch the video about the creation of this song here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg1xFYpXuWA

Lyrics: 

Enter the wild with care my love
And speak the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive and grow
And even as you travel far from heather, crag and river
May you like the little fisher set the stream alight with glitter
May you enter now as otter without falter into water

Look to the sky with care my love
And speak the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive and grow
And even as you journey on past dying stars exploding
Like the gilded one in flight, leave your little gifts of light
And in the dead of night my darling, find the gleaming eye of starling
Like the little aviator, sing your heart to all dark matter

Walk through the world with care, my love
And sing the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive and grow
And even as you stumble through machair sands eroding
Let the fern unfurl your grieving, let the heron still your breathing
Let the selkie swim you deeper, oh my little silver-seeker
Even as the hour grows bleaker, be the singer and the speaker
And in city and in forest, let the larks become your chorus
And when every hope is gone, let the raven call you home

Heather Houston's Album

The Lost Words Blessing - All Parts

Roadblock  by Debbie Nargi-Brown

Part 1 
This is a roadblock, not the end of the road
When I get knocked down, I get back up again

Part 2
I don’t care what you’ve been told
Now is the time to take back control
This is not the end of your dreams
Life is not, what it seems

Part 3
Faith, Hope to Believe
Faith, Hope to Receive

This is a live recording at Song Village 2022.

Roadblock

This is a practice track for an upcoming retreat.
Hope   by Debbie Nargi-Brown

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the Soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all" Emily Dickinson

Never, never never, never, never, never, never, never. never
Never give up, on hope

Hope is living in my Soul

HOPE

Pt 1
I feel I gotta sneeze

Pt 2 (3 harmonies)
Bless you, bless you
I just wanna...

Pt 3
I gots to blow, I'm letting go
I can't hold back anymore, oh oh oh

Pt 4
I got an itch, I feel a twitch
It's comin', it's comin
I can't hold it back anymore

Achoo! (the sneeze song)

Can we build so much safety within ourselves that we are OK even if others around us or not? ￼

Safe in Me

I Will - Dodie Whitaker
Verses:
Well I don’t know where this road is leading
And I don’t know how I got here, Still
I shout in joy, for the voice I’m heeding
Says I know I will
I know I will

Now I don’t know where this body’s going
For the night is dark and I feel the chill
But I shout in joy ‘cause a warm wind blowing
Says I know I will
I know I will

Parts 1 & 2: I will I will I will I will I know I will
Bass: Will I will I will uh-huh I know I will
Descant: I will, yes I know I will. I will, yes I know

Dodie's Website: https://vox4change.com/
Photo by Jess Benjamin, taken at Let My People Sing! Summer Retreat 2023

I Will - Dodie Whitaker

Recorded in March, 2022 at Littlebird Flight School Retreat, Carmel Valley, CA

I Wake To The Light (Live) - Dodie Whitaker

Prayers on the Wings - 5:19:24, 10.24 AM

Darling Friend - 5:19:24, 10.33 AM

A cover of Sam Krentzman's "Father Song". https://soundcloud.com/sea-of-eyes for Sam's band.

The Mother Song - cover

An irreverent and sassy challenge to self-judgments with a gospel kick.

Awake

Compared to What?

Lead guitar/vocal/harmony- Katie Sontag
Guitar/production/engineering- C. Todd Robbins

An ode to the tears that transport us

Broken but Beating

Katie Sontag: vocals, guitar, banjo
C. Todd Robbins: Mandolin, guitar, sound engineer & producer
Damion Brook Kintz: Violin
Karly Loveling: Harmony vocal (9, 10)

May Our Love Grow

Vocals/Guitar/Songwriter: Katie Sontag
Violin: Sam Sharp
Piano: Timothy Michael Shaw

Sound Engineering @ The Golden Lab in Eugene OR

www.katiesontag.com

Someday

Original song by Debbie Nargi-Brown inspired by a poem by Suzanne Morrow.The seeds of this song were planted at Song Village 2019. This is a live recording with the Wholehearted Chorus in Monterey, CA
Lyrics: 
Oh Grief  Oh Joy
Held in the very rhythm of my beating heart
Oh Grief  Oh Joy
May you come together so I don't fall apart

Breathe In   Breathe Out
Gather your Strength
Breathe In   Breathe Out
Remove all Doubt

You are Held, You are Held, You are Held
Surrounded, Grounded (by Love)

Dig down into your roots
That's where is all begins
Reach up into the stars
Embrace all that you are

Oh Grief! Oh Joy!

A 5 parts vocal melody collage- layered.

Lyrics:

Part 1: 
How do I find faith in me?x4
How do I find faith in us? X4

Part 2:
Oo- how do I find faith?x3

Part 3:
Gotta look deep inside 
Gotta show what wants to hide
Gotta let the moment guide
Gotta know it will be alright

Gotta seek your inner home
Gotta speak your primal tone
Gotta sing through your bones
Gotta know you’re not alone

Part 4:
Feel the fear
Do it anyway
Know it’ll be alright

Feel the fear
Do it anyway
Know you’re not alone

Part 5:
Feel your feet on the ground
Know it’ll be alright

Feel your feet on the ground
Know you’re not alone

Contact me for sheet music: katharine.sontag@gmail.com
check out my website too: www.katiesontag.com
video to come soon :)

How Do I Find Faith?

Sarah S. Bentley is a song catcher and song carrier, based in Austin, Texas. She facilitates down-to-earth, heart-centered, and powerful sacred singing circles. Sarah gracefully weaves the art of embodied singing, mindful movement, ritual, and communal prayer into her circles.

Sarah started singing as a child and has performed as a singer/songwriter. She draws on her studies in integrative medicine (qigong, yoga, meditation), health promotion, behavioral science, and community resilience to provide a rich and healing experience for her participants. Her intention is to spread peace in the world by sharing the wisdom of movement and heart songs to harmonize our communal resonance and raise the vibration of the Earth and Her inhabitants.

How Do I Find Faith?

Katie Sontag

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