Bird Song - performed by Echo Women’s Choir
Channel: Echo Women's Choir
Date: 2020-08-27

Bird Song 
music by Heather Masse (of The Wailin' Jennys)
lyrics -  Heather Masse, Nicky Mehta 
http://www.thewailinjennys.com/

Here’s some three-part singing from the Wailin’ Jennys that seems perfect for our choir. Thanks to our Assistant Conductor Tahirih, for bringing them into our circle.

May, 2020 – Echo Women’s Choir was preparing to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day with a spring concert on Mothers’ Day at Holy Trinity Church in downtown Toronto, where we usually sing. And then … we began a different program, of staying home, in isolation, and meeting up weekly on Zoom for something that wasn’t quite a rehearsal, but did have a bit of singing and camaraderie. 

These videos are the small part of our season that we thought we could manage to knit together out of our disappointment. We’re very proud of the effort we put out, and happy to sound virtually as good as we “really” do, only with fewer singers, and all of us widely separated. Many thanks to the Echo Alumnae, guest artists and friends of Emma who joined us.

Recording © 2020, The Echo Women's Choir 
Audio and video editing: Peter Turner and Emma Whitla
https://www.echowomenschoir.ca

Echo Pandemica Singers
Alan Gasser, Artistic Director
Tahirih Vejdani Lopez, Assistant Conductor
Thanks also to section leaders Alida Doornberg and Susanne Maziarz

Lyrics:
I hear a bird chirping up in the sky,
I'd like to be free like that, spread my wings so high.
I see the river flowing, water running by,
I'd like to be that river, see what I might find.
I feel the wind a-blowing, slowly changing time,
I'd like to be the wind, I'd swirl and shape the sky.
I smell the flowers blooming, opening for spring,
I'd like to be those flowers, open to everything.
 
I feel the seasons change: the leaves, the snow and the sun.
I'd like to be those seasons, made up and undone.
I taste the living earth, the seeds that grow within,
I'd like to be that earth, a home where life begins.
I see the moon a-rising, reaching into night,
I'd like to be that moon, a knowing, glowing light.
I know the silence as the world begins to wake,
I'd like to be that silence as the morning breaks.

Echo Pandemica
1) Do Not Carry a Heavy Heart 
https://youtu.be/Poay7rLwtpQ
2) Fount
https://youtu.be/52GRxvlMNAQ
3) Bird Song
https://youtu.be/5SowPDbmqEk
4) Big Sky
https://youtu.be/vnpuc-5afto
5) Hope
https://youtu.be/o1jq9V0SHyQ
6) Better Times Will Come
https://youtu.be/Cee4H6VoTfg


License
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)