Hope by Alex Bevan - performed by the Echo Women's Choir
Channel: Echo Women's Choir
Date: 10/11/2020

Hope, Words and music by Alex Bevan 
©2020 Fiddler’s Wynde Music BMI (all rights reserved)

http://alexbevan.com/
Virtual Tip Jar Paypal= alex@alexbevan.com 
Venmo = Alex-Bevan-4
Alex Bevan on Facebook -- for live @home mini-concerts, and live-stream events
 
Starting in mid-March, Alex sang a daily mini-home-FB-live-concert in his basement every day for at least 100 days. He was voicing hope implicitly right after the briefings from the Ohio Governor and Dr Amy Acton. And in April, he wrote and sang a brand-new song about the message on the sidewalk. (Our choir director grew up in NE Ohio in the 70s, listening to Alex when he was known as the Skinny Little Boy.)

Sept, 2020 – Echo Women’s Choir began a new season this fall, still staying home, still in isolation, and still meeting up weekly on Zoom for workshops and regular virtual meetups that aren’t quite the same as a rehearsal, but do have a bit of singing and camaraderie. 

We’re still learning how to present our work in virtual video form, as the achievement part of our season, which is paired with the learning we are doing from teachers far and near. We’re very proud to know our voices are still sounding together … though apart, with fewer singers, and all of us widely separated. Many thanks to the Echo Alumnae, guest artists and other singer friends who have joined us, virtually every week.

Recording © 2020, The Echo Women's Choir
Audio and video editing: Peter Turner

Echo 2nd-Wave Pandemica Singers
Alan Gasser, Artistic Director (and choral arranger)
Thanks also to section leaders Alida Doornberg and Susanne Maziarz

Lyrics:
On the space in the middle of the old sidewalk
(there was) Grace from a child with a chip of chalk
Only four letters were all she wrote
Just one word ... that word was “Hope”

The backstory’s not hard to understand
Her daddy drives a delivery van
Mommy works and prays for masks
It’s all about give and not about ask...

If you don’t get it .... then I don’t know
It’s not about the what... or the who you know
While political minds position and fuss
It’s not about them ... it’s all about us...

It’s the old ... it’s the homeless ... it’s the shut out crowd
The deplorables, adorables and “talks too loud!”
This wound will heal ... it will leave a scar...
It’s about you and me... it’s all we are

Echo Pandemica Singers Videos

1) Do Not Carry a Heavy Heart, by Alison Burns -- https://youtu.be/Poay7rLwtpQ
2) Fount, by Malcolm Dalglish -- https://youtu.be/52GRxvlMNAQ
3) Bird Song, by Heather Masse & Nicky Mehta https://youtu.be/5SowPDbmqEk
4) Big Sky, by Seth Houston -- https://youtu.be/vnpuc-5afto
5) Hope, by Alex Bevan -- https://youtu.be/o1jq9V0SHyQ
6) Better Times Will Come, by Janis Ian -- https://youtu.be/Cee4H6VoTfg
7) Holding You in the Light, by Kathy Reid-Naiman -- https://youtu.be/pAUF6nHw-9U
8) Green Shadows, by Malvina Reynolds  -- https://youtu.be/Kh9xIGfchM4