Video Information

• Choir: The Girl Choir of South Florida
• Piece: Famine Song
• Composer:  VIDA
• Arranger:  Matthew Culloton
• Conductor:  Wallis Peterson
• Voices:  SSAA
• Sheet Music:   www.sbmp.com/SR2.php?Cata...  
• Genres: A cappella, Folk/Ethnic
• "Famine Song" by VIDA, arr. Matthew Culloton.
  
  Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Ar...  more"Famine Song" by VIDA, arr. Matthew Culloton.
  
  Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson.
  
  Written by the women's quartet VIDA and inspired by the stories of Sudanese basket weavers who expressed the pain and hope experienced by those in the famine of the 1980s.
  
  Ease my spirit
  Ease my soul
  Please free my hands from this barren soil
  Ease my mother
  Ease my child
  Earth and sky be reconciled
  
  Rain
  
  Weave my mother
  Weave my child
  Weave your baskets of rushes wild
  Weave my mother
  Weave my child
  Weave your baskets of rushes wild
  
  Under the sun comes the hunger to everyone
  
  Famine's teeth
  Famine's claws
  On the sands of Africa
  
  Rain
  
  Weave my mother
  Weave my child
  Weave your baskets of rushes wild
  Weave my mother
  Weave my child
  Weave your baskets of rushes wild
  
  Rain  less