BRATTLEBORO WOMEN’S CHORUS Concert Songography
Fall ‘96 First Baptist Church (all concerts there unless noted) Benefit for The Women’s Crisis Center and a woman living with HIV/AIDS Ilu Finu * Weave And Mend * Be Like A Bird * River of Jordan * Kyrie More Love * Soon I Will Be Done * Haydum Alaydum * Ise Olawa Hold On * If The People Lived Their Lives
Spring ‘97 Benefit for The Gathering Place and HEALS, expressive arts program Souls Are Gathered * Sure As The Wind * River of Birds * Motherless Chile Miriam * Ella’s Song * Going to the Mountains * There’s A River Flowing I Feel Like Going On * By the Rivers of Babylon
Fall ‘ 97 Benefit for Wendy Wilson Fire Fund Blessed Are We * Bright Morning Stars * Alleluia * Light is Returning * Prayer Yemaya Asesu * Wanna Die Easy * Ooah * Blessing For Children * Amaeeboo Siyahamba * Old Time Religion * I Feel Like Going On * Somebody Prayed
Spring ‘98 Benefits Expresso and Lifeline, newsletter for bereaved parents Stepping Lightly * Kore Chant * The Lord Is My Shepherd * Kyrie * Neesa Rise Up O Flame * The Storm Is Passing Over * Kwan Zeon Bosai * Soon I Will Be Done * Sing Till The Power * Trees Of The Wild * Babethandaza * Woke Up This Morning * Siyahamba
Fall ‘98 Benefits The Brattleboro Walk-in Clinic, Windham County Humane Society, and Children in Changing Families support group We Are Stars * Circle Round For Freedom * Nowhere To Be * Deep Peace Lone Wild Bird * We’re Marching On * Tu La Klezeeo * Wimoweh * I’ll Fly Away Zol Zain Sholem * Freedom Is Coming * Ale Schwester (Ale Brider)
Spring ‘99 White Church in Grafton AND First Baptist Benefits Kosovo Refugee Relief through Save the Children Wait On The Lord * The Storm Is Passing Over * Sto Mi E Milo * Lo Yisa Goy Young Rider * Memoranda * What A Goodly Thing * Breaths * Lamps/Lord Kwan Zeon Bosai * Libby’s Song * Dancing In The Circle * Friends, Only Love
Fall ’99 Benefit for AWARE and the Brattleboro Youth Dream Fund I Will Not Fight * My Wings Span * Waters of Babylon * Deep Peace Glory Train * Bring Me A Little Water, Silvy * Sing Through My Voice The Lord Is My Shepherd * You Can’t Hurry God * Listen To The Lambs Wade in the Water/Motherless Child/Wanna Die Easy
Spring 2000 Benefit for The Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force Wisdom Path * Dark Of The Moon * Under The Full Moonlight * Infinite Sky Weave And Mend * Fi Mi Love * Woman Born * Polegnala Tudora A Million Nightingales * On Children * Souls Are Gathered * Don’t Fence Me In
Fall 2000 at the Latchis Theatre Benefit for Making the Most of I, Mary Alice Amidon and Michelle Liechti Winds Of Change * Bim Bam * Hamisha Asar * Hanaava Babanot * Prayer Woke Up This Morning * Sto Mi E Milo * Wings Of A Dove * Now Let Us Sing Ocho Kandeles * Love is Like a Harbor * Aluta Continua * Vido
Spring 2001 Benefits Clark/Canal Community Association summer program Moon Is A Cradle * She Changes Everything She Touches * Kore Chant A Mountain * Quand la Nuit * The Lord Is My Shepherd * Cool Of The Day Breaths * Vido * The Water Is Wide * Like A Ship * How Could Anyone God Danced * I Feel Like Going On * Swing Down Chariot
Fall 2001 Benefit for Revolutionary Women’s Association of Afghanistan Vem Kan Segla * Down To The River To Pray * Ay Doomba * Imi Natna Woyaya * Never Will Give Up * This Pretty Planet * Shall We Gather Thula Thula * Jabula Jesu * Ya Jamil * It Takes A Village * Oh Mayam Wah May Lamb And Lion * My Heart
Spring 2002 at St. Michael’s Catholic Church Adiemus by Karl Jenkins
Fall 2002 – Benefit River Gallery – no musician Guide My Feet * I’m Comin’ Home * Stepping Lightly * Love is Little When We Sing Together * Tell Me Again * Dancing * No Mirrors Balm In Gilead * There’s A Light * Mouth Music * Oooo
Spring 2003 Musicians Genevieve Rose and Patty Meyer All Will Be Well * Kyrie * Crossings * Flowers of Joy * Face to Face Peace Like A River * Song Of The Soul * 1,000 Grandmothers Why Am I Painting the Living Room
Fall 2003 Benefit Boys and Girls Club Musicians Russ Horton and Susan Dedell Autumn Time * Fly,fly,fly * Everything She Touches * Waters of Babylon From A Distance * Babethandaza * Soon I Will Be Done * Hey Mister Miller Memoranda * Power Chant * Wings Of A Dove * Sing Through My Voice Spring 2004 at West Village Meeting House Diane Benjamin & Diane Henele, oboes, Connie Green, flute, Patty Meyer, piano Dog Dog * Thula Thula * The Moon Is A Cradle * Calling My Children Home God Danced * The Stove * April Showers * My Mother’s Garden * When I Saw The Hawk * Snow Might Fly * When Harvesting Arugula * The Rose Arbor
Fall 2004 at The Putney School Benefit Black Mountain Assisted Living Harriet Tubman * Infinite Sky * I’ll Fly Away * Farewell Round * Hotaru Koi A Question of Tempo * Mi Yitneni Auf * I Wish I Knew How * Circle Me Sisters Dimpho Tsarona * Wings Of A Dove *Baby* A River Of Birds * Allelujah * Kolo
SPRING 2005 at West Village Meeting House Deanna Toney, flute, Karen Horton, French horn, Anneke Toomey, piano Dreamkeeper * Music Strings * Duond Akuru * Women Make Music * Pie Jesu Love Me Tender * The Glory of Love * To Olga * On Children * I Wish I Knew How * Storm Is Passing Over * So We’ll Go No More A Roving *
FALL 2005 at West Village Meeting House Benefit KidsPLAYce, 10 Years Together, Susan Dedell, piano Rainforest Chant * Passing By * Blessed Are We * Upon the Ocean The Water is Wide * When We Sing Together * How Can I Keep From Singing Time Has Made A Change * We Wish Us A Happy Birthday * The Storm is Passing Over * Swing Down Chariot * I Want To Sing, Saints, Swing Low Aluta Continua * Now the Day is Over * Singabahambayo
SPRING 2006 at First Baptist and West Village Meeting House Earth Moves * Life Comes In * Don’t Fence Me In * A Girl’s Garden Arise My Love * Java Jive * Three Ways to Vacuum Your House April Showers * Coming of Age
FALL 2006 at First Baptist with Julian Gerstin Take Me Away * There’s A River * River of Jordan *Souls Are Gathered Put Your Han’ * Ilu Finu * Ise Olawa * Wade in the Water medley Waters of Babylon *Swimmin’ to the Other Side , Allelujah medley Friends, Only Love * Peace Will Come * Ma Na Efe Dusime
Valentines 2007 snowed out
SPRING 2007 at First Baptist and Stone Church Arts Sabine Rhyne and Lucinda Alcorn Somagwaza * Take Me Away * A Blessing For Children * Yemaya Let It Rain * Wana Baraka * Rain Come Down * Bring Me A Little Water, Silvy * Down By The Riverside * Souls A’ Gathered in Freedom El Barquito * Love Call Me Home * River in Judea * Waters of Babylon
FALL 2007 at First Baptist Church and St. Michael’s Episcopal All Night, All Day * Fire Within * Kore Chant * Angels Come Stand At My Side Feel Like Going On * This Pretty Planet * White * Woyaya * Wisdom Path * Fly fly fly Autumn Time * Kwan zeon Bosai * I Got Shoes * Ipahradisi * Cheek to Cheek
VALENTINES 2008 I Will* All I Have To Do Is Dream* Only A Paper Moon *, Don’t Fence Me In I Can’t Give You Anything But Love * Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree
SPRING 2008 Mother’s Day (Baptist Church) AND Heifer Stroll (Latchis) Luba Lischynsky, pianist. Susan pianist at Heifer Stroll? A Thousand Grandmothers * Be Kind To Your Parents * Dark of the Moon * On Children * Music in My Mother’s House * Musical Demons/Simple Melody * A Girl’s Garden * A Garden of My Own * When Harvesting Arugula * Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round*It Could Have Been Me*Vermont Farmer’s Song *A Farmer’s Alphabet
FALL 2008 at First Baptist Songs of Spirit with Julian Gerstin Amaeeboo * Janie Mama * Ruka * Full Moon * The Breeze at Dawn * Alliluya Sing Through My Voice * Thula Klizeo * My Heart Is Ready * I’m Gonna Sing Woke Up This Morning * Somebody Sang For Me * Let Go and Move Live and Move * Parting Glass * Moulongui Esango
VALENTINES 2009 Let It Be Me * Til There Was You * Stand By Me Glory of Love * If You Were Falling
SPRING 2009 at First Baptist Church with Alki Steriopoulos On The Move * Trouble, Fly * A Million Nightingales * Turn Your Radio On * I Have Dreamed on this Mountain * Wayfaring Stranger * Summertime * Balm in Gilead Climbing Up The Mountain * It Don’t Mean A Thing * Wings Of A Dove Over the Rainbow
FALL 2009 at First Baptist with Julian Gerstin Mbona Maisha Ni kama Mzigo * I Am Willing * I Will Not Fight * Driving to Hohocus Union in the Heavens*Waves Are Coming In/Same Rain/Pachebel Sizo Hamba Kan Ncane * Julian’s Song * When All God’s Children Get Together Om’Obani ko seri * My Change Will Come
VALENTINES 2010 Apple Tree * Heart and Soul * It’s You I Like * Lean On Me My Romance * You Are The Sunshine
SPRING 2010 at First Baptist with Alki Steriopoulos The Moon Is A Cradle * Hundreds of Ways * Honey in the Rock * Ilu Finu Crossing the Water * Love Like A Harbor * Yes Indeed * All God’s Children Breaths * Take A Step * Rockin’ Robin * Guardians
FALL 2010 at First Baptist with Lisa McCormick & Julian Mac Browne All Will Be Well * I Arise Facing East * I Am A Song * Spirit of the Wind This Pretty Planet * Wisdom Path * Spirit Song * You Gotta Build Your House Levitate * Love Changes Everything * No Mirrors * Woyaya * Here Is My Home
VALENTINES 2011 You Cannot Lose My Love* On the Street Where You Live * You’ve Got A Friend I Can’t Give You Anything But Love * When You Go Away * Music, Music, Music
SPRING 2011 with Alki Steriopoulos Wangari’s tree planting song (A Kuna) * This Great Sky * From A Distance I Sing For the Mothers * Change * Comes Love * A Question of Tempo * Oh The Comfort * Paradise * Cool of the Day * God Danced * High Hopes Earth Moves In A Mysterious Way * Down Down Baby * Carry It Home
FALL 2011 with Lisa McCormick and Julian McBrowne Life’s Little Lessons Oom Bee Ay * Fly fly fly * Let Go and Move * This Little Light of Mine Kwan Zeon Bosai * Fruits of the Selfless Heart *Dona Nobis Pacem Give Yourself to Love * Happiness Runs * The Secret o’ Life * Thanksgiving Eve You Gotta Eat (What’s On Your Plate) * Every Little Moment * Storm is Passing Over
VALENTINES 2012 It’s You I Like * Music Music Music/I Can’t Give Your Anything But Love Watching the River Run * Lean On Me * It’s Only A Paper Moon Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree * What A Wonderful World It Would Be
SPRING 2012 with Anna Patton, Ben Patton, Alki Steriopoulos Enjoy Your Life! w/Anna Patton’s group – Till Tom Special Sailboat Race * If They’d Had Flappers Back in Shakespeare’s Day * Get Out and Get Under the Moon * Hey Mister Miller God Bless the Child * Three Little Sisters * Everything Will Be All Right Lookin’ for a Miracle * It’s A New Season * If You Want to Sing Out May I Suggest * Enjoy Your Life * Wonderful World
FALL 2012 with Molly Steinmark So Glad I’m Here! So Glad I’m Here * Preludium from “Sound of Music” * Heaven Above, Earth Below Fall (The Road Is Calling) * Kinderly * Om Mata Om Kali * Souls A’Gathered Ya Jamil * Pilgrimage Medley (Walk Down That Lonesome Road/Jesus Walked this Lonesome Valley/Soon and Very Soon) * More Love
VALENTINES 2013 On the Street Where You Live * You’ve Got A Friend medley * Friendship Let It Be Me * Love Will Find You * Magic Penny * Our House
SPRING 2013 with Kestrel (Andra and Russ Horton, and Cynthia Hughes) White Church in Grafton and First Baptist Church On My Way Instrumentals: Cattlefold, Persian Cowboys, L’Orientale All Will Be Well * Bells of Norwich * Amaeeboo * Chico Gospel Pilgrimage Song * Stella Splendens * I’m On My Way * All I Need Glory Bound * Come and Go With Me * The Lord Is My Shepherd * Cuckoo If I Keep The Green Branch In My Heart * Be Like A Bird * Swallow Song
FALL 2013 with Kate Parsons Where There Is Light Where There Is Light in the Soul * Hallowell * Wana Baraka When We Sing Together * There’s A Light * Give Me Birds I’m Gonna Lift My Brother Up * You Gotta Let Your Light Shine On * Travelin’ Light Over On The Other Bright Shore * The Sun It Rises * The Winter Child’s Round Light is Returning * Thula Sizwe/I See My Light Come Shining
SPRING 2014 with Lisa McCormick at First Baptist Church and Next Stage in Putney Spring Jubilee! A Concert of American Folk Songs Hallelujah * Jubilee * Will the Circle Be Unbroken * This Land is Your Land Cindy * Peace Call * Cherokee Morning Song * Silvy * If I Had A Hammer Farthest Field * Johanna * To My Old Brown Earth * Prayin’ On a Mountainside
FALL 2014 with Peter Siegel At Next Stage in Putney and First Baptist Church Give Me Wings Shosholoza * Hamba ka nCane * Up On The Roof * Great Big Stars * One by One Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round * I Ain’t Got No Home *Feel Like Going On May You See Diamonds * Give Me Wings * Never Turning Back * Woyaya Wanderin’ * Mmm, Would You Like To Take A Walk * Walkin’ After Midnight
SPRING 2015 with Lisa McCormick and Cathy Martin At First Baptist Church On My Journey Sing * Lullaby * Take Me To The Water * Arise My Love * Another Train Harriet Tubman * Seasons of Love * No Time * Moving in the Rhythm of My Being Dancing * Sentimental Journey
FALL 2015 with Cathy Martin at First Baptist Church/ Party at the River Garden Twentieth Anniversary Ilu Finu * Weave and Mend * Young Rider * Sto Mi E Milo * When Harvesting Arugula I Remember, I Believe * There’s A River * Singabahambayo Thina Twenty third Psalm * A Thousand Grandmothers * Breaths * Listening
SPRING 2016 w/ Cathy Martin, Lisa McCormick, Jen Rice, Bill Ballard, Connie Green At Next Stage and Centre Church All compositions by Becky Twentieth Anniversary Mbona Maisha * Let Your Light Shine On * Travelin’ Light * Light Beams * You Winter’s Harvest * When I Saw the Hawk * Our Whole Lives Long * Clearing Sit By An Apple Tree * Trust * Cheerful Song* singalong Over The Rainbow
FALL 2016 w/ Susan Dedell At Centre Church and All Souls Church Well May The World Go Cradle Me * Peace Is * Cool of the Day * Going to the Mountains Like A Mountain * Ola Mama * Wangari Matthai * Well May the World Go Great Trees * River * Deep Peace * Hakuna Mungu Ka Ma Ye Ye singalong Row, Row, Row Your Boat
SPRING 2017 at the Latchis Theatre With Ben James, Cathy Martin, Julian Gerstin, Lisa Newell Lisa McCormick and the Ukulele Orchestra, Tim Ellis and Rob Freeberg Sing, My Sister I Am Determined/One Foot in Front O’ The Other * I Have A Million Nightingales I Am A Song * From Way Up Here * Dig Down Deep * Unity * Thulele Mama Ya Good Mothers * I Come From Women * Sing, My Sister, Sing Don’t Worry, Be Happy * Over the Rainbow, Iz style * I’ll Fly Away
FALL 2017 at the Baptist Church With Cathy Martin, and Lisa McCormick and the Ukulele Orchestra Singing in the Light of Love Got To Love * Kinder * Shine On Me/Standin’ in the Light of Love * This Ancient Love Storm Comin’ * Wood River * When I Hear Music * Plovi Barko * A New Year * Amovolovolo * singalong What the World Needs Now
SPRING 2018 at Centre Congregational Church with Cathy Martin; also special guests Big Wood Voices trio (Amanda, Will and Becky) singing Fiddler’s Hymn by Pete Sutherland Made in Vermont And Singrony (Andy, Beth, Carrie, and Ruth) Lazy, by Irving Berlin, arr. Anna Patton The Vermont Farmer’s Song * Maple Sweet * These Green Mountains * Jubilee (Last Night I Had The) Strangest Dream * Wayfaring Stranger * Freedom Singalong Moonlight in Vermont * Voice Among Voices * Hope Lingers On Sisi Ni Moja * The Art of Disappearing FALL 2018 at the Brick Church With Cathy Martin, Julian McBrowne, and Lisa McCormick and the Ukulele Orchestra Keep Hope Alive Holy Ground * Deep Down in My Soul * Falling Leaves * Crossing the Bar Let the Life I’ve Lived * Strength to Go On * Circle Me Sisters * I Am Light * With Great Love * Walk My Own Revolution * Time Has Made A Change Stand in that River * Finding My Way/ Oh River * Keep Hope Alive
SPRING 2019 at Centre Church With Cathy Martin Walk With Me The Little Road * I Arise Facing East into Walk With Me * I’m Gonna Walk It With You Different Ships * Give Me Wings * Happy Wanderer (singalong) * The Road Home People Get Ready * A Garden of My Own * Winnebago
FALL 2019 at Epsilon Spires With Cathy Martin, Lisa McCormick, & the Ukulele Orchestra Love Changes Everything Now Let Us Sing * When Love Had No Road/In Dangerous Times * If You Love Me Ain’t No Mountain * Change of Heart * On Children * Lullabye (Like A Ship) Lullabye (Good Night, My Angel) * Love Is All You Need, Beatles Medley * One Day All I Have To Do Is Dream * Love Changes Everything
SPRING 2020 on line using tracks from earlier concerts First Ever Zoom Concert! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wiEALllS5w “Prelude” with welcome sign, all from A Garden of Our Own, CD When We Sing Together, Shosholoza, Wanderin’, A Girl’s Garden, You Gotta Eat (What’s On Your Plate), Our House (removed from youtube video for copyright issue), Oh, the Comfort, Trouble Fly, When Harvesting Arugula, A Garden of My Own Guest techies: Jacob Ellis, Erin Pesut Readers: Maryann Parrott, Betsy Williams, Elizabeth Pittman, Terry Sylvester Welcomes: Zoom Welcome, Ruth Wilmot; Welcome, Muriel Taylor Opening poem: Girls from Latchis concert Fall 2000 * Light * This Little Light of Mine Peepers/Froggies * Winds of Change Suffrage Song Singalong Tim’s new words, Hallelujah (backed up by Ellis-Grabers) * There’s A Light I’m Gonna Lift My Brother Up * Woyaya * Feel Like Going On * Dona Nobis Pacem Ain’t No Mountain
FALL 2020 on line Zoom singalong concert! Lisa McCormick, guest, 25th celebration! I Step Into the Flow * There’s A River (BWC recording, Fall 2015) * Right Place, Right Time * River of Grace (with Becky Reardon’s recording) * The River (with Coco Love Alcorn’s track, slide show) Wood River (BWC Fall 2017 recording, slide show) * Breaths and Walk With Me (BWC recording, Spring 2019) slide show, * If I Had A Hammer, singalong * Standing in the Light of Love (BWC recording, Fall 2017) (spotlighting) What the World Needs Now (BWC recording, Fall 2017) (spotlighting)