Info: 100 Voices for One World

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100 Voices for One World - invites you to come on out and sing.
Calling all voices to sing for Humanity, begins next week.

Calling all voices in the Cowichan Valley to come on out and sing together. - songs for the world, gospel, folk, fun, harmony, uplifting songs to share together as one. - One Voice. One Heart Beating. —

Rehearsals start May 7th - accepting singers throughout. don’t be shy!!
Sliding scale per person $20 - $100 until June 21st.
Including rehearsals and 4 concerts. - or more!!?? in the future?
Be generous and affordable.

3 times a week to choose from:( attend one or all for the same exchange)
Mondays 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm at Lila Music Centre, 3228A Gibbins Rd Duncan BC
Wednesdays 9:30 am - 10:30 am Mercury Theatre, 331 Brae Rd, Duncan BC
Thursdays 5:15 - 6:15 pm at the Quamichan House at the Quw’utsun’ Cultural Centre, Duncan BC

Performances
June 21st - INternational Aborigional Day with the Spirit Drummers
June 27th - International Multicultural Day with the Cowichan Intercultural Society
June 30th - Summer Fest, 100th Year celebration of the city of Duncan
July 1st Canada Day celebrations.

 

Participation in all concerts is not mandatory but encouraged.

Homeschoolers invited.
Families invited.
All ages welcome.
Non audition.

You can listen to the songs and get more information below in another post, on this website which is being rebuilt after being hacked!!

 

Listen, Learn & Sing-A-Long 100 Voices for One World

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These are the songs for the 100 Voices for One World Choir.
See other postings for more info regarding rehearsals and performance dates.
If you are a member, click here to view all of the parts to all the songs.

Many thanks to Maggie Wheeler for supplying me with these first three songs and supporting me in this Ubuntu (I am because we are) Community Choir work.

Every little harmony helps!!

1) ONE VILLAGE
Composed by Maggie Wheeler for a commission for the Santa Barbara Children’s Chorus. Here it is performed by the Golden Gate Community Choir, directed by Maggie Wheeler and Emile Hassan Dyer.

2) TEDUMELA
Tedumela is by South African Brian Abrahams. Here is it is combined with We are One by Roxane Smith. Roxane is a member of the Natural Voiceswork Practitioners Network in the U.K.

Tudumela sung here by the Golden Gate Community Choir, L.A. Directed by Maggie Wheeler and Emile Hassan Dyer.

A great video link on youtube from Sing for Water North 2011

3) WE LET THE LOVE
The song is by Ricky Byars Beckwith, the wife of Reverend Michael Beckwith of the Agape Church in L.A. My friend Maggie Wheeler, learned the song from Arnae who taught it at a little workshop in her house a few years ago.

We let the Love sung here by Maggie Wheeler:

Video of Agape Choir singing with Arnae singing the lead.

4) ONE VOICE, by Ruth Moody
You Tube by the Wailing Jenny

5) YES
Thanks to Patti Powell, choir leader of Acapella Laboratory who taught this song to us at the Community Choir Leadership Training in 2007.
Terrance Kelley of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel choir who taught it to Patti Powell and to Shekinah Glory, where the music originated.

Sung here by Patti Powell ( coming soon)
Until then listen to this video: at about 3 mins the choir comes in with Yes , Yes , Yes,
Yes - Video performed by City Soul Choir, soloist Mimi

Many thanks to my friend, Gretchen Sleicher, for supporting me in this journey of finding songs for this project and for all the parts of the songs below on her fabulous website: www.songsforthegreatturning.net
6) LET US SEE THE BEAUTY - by Lawrence Cole, taken from a line from ’ The Invitation” by Oriah Mountain Dreamer.
7) ONE HEART BEATING - By Sue Kirkpatrick
8) TURNING OF THE WORLD - by Ruth Phelem
9) WE ARE THE PEOPLE - By Sue Kirkpatrick