Setlist from Nov 8 Singing for Liberation potluck

Here are the songs we sang at the Singing for Liberation potluck on Friday night, November 8 at CTUL/Inquilixs Unidxs.  Enjoy the links to online recordings for your at-home remembering pleasure!

• Endless Boundless Gratitude (Samara Jade)
• Liberation (Liz adapted from Earth, My Body tune, unknown creator)
• I did not come here alone (The Peace Poets)
• I am not afraid (Peace Poets)
• What are we gonna do with all this grief (main lyric from Prentis Hemphill’s book, “What It Takes to Heal,” tune by Liz with melodic frame influenced by Ana Hernandez’s “Set it right again”, Black Blues + Spirituals, and Whiskey Shivers’ “Who’s gonna dig these graves”)
• Another world (inspired by Arundhati Roy/Kerri Meyer; Spanish by LDA)
• Organize! Organize! Organize! (adapted by Charon Hribar, in We Rise: A Movement Songbook by The Poor People’s Campaign)
• Lead with Love (Melanie DeMore)
• We get there together (Or never get there at all) (Josh Blaine)

* no online recording available. If you discover one, please let us know in the comments!

If you are interested in being part of January-February 2025 Singing for Liberation choir and/or be trained as a movement songleader, please add yourself to this Google form!  

Here are some of the Resources we used:

• About the Card Decks: Having a tangible tool to sit with and reflect our feelings back to us helps us slow down, process, and make space for emotional work and intentions we otherwise tend to ignore. On Nov 8 we spread out the Rest Deck by Tricia Hersey and the Artist Grief Deck, made by hospice workers in the pandemic.
• Instruments we use: CajonTab by Louson Drum - Conie has a 12" CajonTab; Liz has one of the Pro series. Get to know a bit of the cajon's musical history here. Use Liz's affiliate link to get 10% off!

Thank you for attending this post-election gathering to eat and sing together.  We hope it fed your spirit for the long haul ahead.  Let's keep doing it!  This is part of the world we're working towards!  Here's the link to sign up for the Jan-Feb Singing for Liberation series!

Many thanks to Jen from Inquilixs Unidxs for offering space and affirming the need for this work to happen.  

Other singing Good Trouble leads: 

• Retrain Your Lizard Brain: Somatic Singing for Trauma Awareness + Resilience - Next is Thu evening, Nov 14 at New City Center with Mni'sota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute.  More details here.
• Songs for Tending Your Heart: a grief song circle - Friday night, Nov 22 at Yess Yoga.  More details including registering here.
• Liz's Heretics Sing - on 1st and 3rd Sunday mornings at Anam Cara.  More details here. 
• Conie's online Heart Songs circle - biweekly on Zoom.  More details here.
• Conie leads Music that Makes Community, an organization that trains everyday folks in the art and practice of paperless song sharer/collaborative ritual artist, mostly in spiritual and religious spaces.  They have a local monthly in-person gathering and the next one is Wed, Nov 13, 2-3:30 p.m. More details here.
• Stay tuned for more future events here on this blog or sign up for the In-person Singing and/or the Good Trouble Songleaders newsletters (here's the link to Google form for the Jan-February Singing for Liberation series)

Keep singing and stay warm, hydrated and creative!

Love, Liz and Conie, a.k.a. Good Trouble'