This week in our online class we take a well-deserved breather between seasons. For the last three months we’ve been on an epic journey, learning about enough countries and cultures to make our heads spin. Next we’re going to start another three month voyage to do the same. So in this class we take a break from our deep-diving and sing songs drawn from many seasons.
This week, after singing hello in Egyptian, we go first to western India to sing “Walhav Re Nakhwa,” while we row a boat out onto the Indian ocea. Next we land in Southern Italy – Sicily, to be exact – where sing “Zumba Lariula,” a playful song, in an old Sicilian dialect, about about the machinations around a wedding. From Italy we go to to Egypt, as we become animals traipsing through the Sinai desert, (“Drink the Water”), bounce all the way to Scotland, where we sing “Chi Mi Na Morbheanna” a loving song about our homeland, and end, before singing goodbye in Nubian, we visit Egypt’s working class communities and sing the Shaabi love song, “Wala WaHed.” Non-stop singing, non-stop fun.
