Daily Antidote | Patricia Norton "I Am Listening" - 1/3/23
Daily Antidote of Song
[{'start': '5.672', 'end': '8.774', 'text': "Yes, hello again Facebook Live.   Hello, everybody here on Zoom.   Wonderful to be here with this   incredible musical program   hosted by the folks at Carpe   Diem Arts and Jayden is rocking   the tech today and I really   look forward to sharing with   you a friend of ours, Patricia   Norton in Burlington, Vermont.   But you'll hear more about here   shortly and right now, the   little tune that Dick is   playing on the piano is a nod   to a Canadian musical icon, Ian   Ty   some  of you may know that Ian   Tyson passed away last week but   we're going to welcome you into   the room with this beautiful   piece of music.  it's great to see you Jaden on   the tech and our musical guest   Patricia Norton hello Jojo we   know you're off camera but so   much here the creator of this   program hello  Berkeley hello Sarah in Texas   and Susan in Seattle hello Dory   and Ollie maybe hello Deli and   Bronwyn in Victoria great to   know you're here Lynn and Darla   probably somewhere hello Gary   Powsner hello Luda it's so   lovely how you consistently   send out so much love  it's great to see you cricket   and Sandy hello Jim in New York   City and Bonnie in Boise hello   Deborah in Kentucky hello Susan   G with all your fabulous quilts   she's amazing you've gotta   check her workout hello Amanda   and Miles hello Linda and Orcas   Island right over there I'm   waving can you see me hm hello   Storm good to see you  and Ruth in Birmingham, England   great to know you're not far   from us Hoda NBC hello Mabel   and the bears and I bet Bob   will show up sometime good to   see you Kevin on your flute   hello Jen Sawyn and Loriana and   Kacina and one other name I   can't see hello Jenny in   Suffolk hello Becky and I'm   switching screens and getting   reoriented here I am hello   Karen good to see you Kim in   New Hampshire hello Dan Walker   in Mienna I you're enjoying   your tea, Linda. Let's all   pause, take a breath, take a   sip,  Hello, Sheila in North Florida.   Hello, Kat. Hello, Caroline in   Boise. Look at that day. One   thousand and 3. Hello, Bob.   Hello, Caroline, Connecticut.   Ah, you are the Carol J, the   fabulous cool, creator of the   Crossword and the Word Search.   It's very much worth looking   into those highly recommended.   We'll say more later. Hello,   Ralph and Penny in Victoria.   Good to  in hello Isabel hello Kathleen   all the way in Albuquerque   great to see you Fred and Cathy   oh and Leah and Jane with your   camera on now in Texas hello   Anne in Silver Springs Sue Sean   and Ray  Nancy Regan Vermont is here   too. Hello. Oh, the curly tops   and your fabulous creature.   What is that? It kind of looks   from here like an octopus. We   have those in the Pacific   Ocean. Right out there. Where   did they go? I've got oh hello   Jamie in Victoria. Good to see   you Deli and Bob. I knew you'd   show up. Hello Jean in   Pittsburgh and Linda hello Lynn   Levine  is everyone on my screens we're   so growl at we're here singing   together in the fabulous Daily   Antidote of Song  Ah, what a joy to be here.   February. No, it's not   February. Where's my brain?   It's January. January 3rd, day   one thousand 3. Wow. And   celebrating new musical friends   this month and Patricia.   Patricia Norton. Um I met   Patricia back in the summer of   2019 when we both took an   online program with Lisa   Littlebird called Song Leader   Flight School. And while I'm on   the west coast of Canada and   Patricia's on the almost Well,   east coast of the US are close   to it. Just about New England.   Um we were we were partnered   and so we got to know each   other and Patricia is a a   choral director, songwriter,   singer, creator of an a   fabulous podcast and many other   things which we'll talk about.   But I'm so glad that we finally   got to have this happen here.   Welcome Patricia. Thank you so   much. What a beautiful group of   people. Yeah. Isn't it? Um a   lovely way to welcome everybody   in Hm. I love that. Yeah, very   associate. Different different   styles of doing it but yeah, we   we all show up with all of who   we are and it is all wonderful.   Well, we want to I really want   folks in this room to get to   know a whole lot more about you   but first, let's launch into   your song. Tell us why you   brought this song, what you,   what you chose, and will have   an experience and we'll chat   more about it later. Great.   Well, the song is called I am   listening and it's a song that   I wrote this after having 20 22   was a tough year for me. Um we   lost both of our fathers, my   partner, and I lost our   fathers. We lost both of our   pets. We moved from one place   to another. We lost two close   friends. It was one of those   kind of earthquake years. And   towards the end of it, I got   quite sick for quite a while.   And it kind of felt like my   body was just saying enough.   Enough. Enough. You need to   stop. You need to grieve. You   need to do whatever. And I was   frustrated. I was kind of like   really do I have to shut down?   I'm not you know do I have to   pay attention to all of this?   You maybe know how it goes.   Maybe you don't. Maybe you are   far wiser than I am. But there   it was. So I ended up writing   this song about listening to my   body. Um in November. And   shortly thereafter actually   things kind of turned around   for me. And then come Christmas   time you know eating all the   butter and sugar and coming out   of the holidays and kind of   feeling a little disconnected   from my body again. I thought   well this is a really a good   song. Um to be singing right   now. it's a call and response   song plus. It has other parts   too. So, what I'm going to do   is just kind of teach you   really quickly how it goes. So,   you can sing it with me because   I would be really nervous if I   was singing alone. Um so,   knowing that you all are   singing with me is very   comforting to me. So, please   sing along. It starts by just   you echo me back. Are you   crying to be heard? Are you   crying to be heard? I am   listening I am listening are   you needing to be known are you   needing to be known I'm   attending to you I'm attending   to you we'll just do it again   are you crying to be heard are   you crying I am listening  are you needing to be known  unattending to you too and we   can make that sort of harmonize   if we hold out each of the last   words while the other person   sings. So, I'm going to hold   out my part now and just let   you respond to me and then, you   hold out your last word while I   sing and we'll harmonize   together that way.  I am listening  are you needing to be known  I'm attending to you  Yeah? How'd that go? I want to   see thumbs. Yes, okay. good.   Good, good, good, good. Um so,   there's another part that comes   in later, that's another kind   of response. Um, that I wrote a   little bit later. Um,  your cry  ending  you're trying So, this last   little part has flexible words   that you can think about. What   is it that you're doing? Um and   I was thinking also about   sometimes when we care for   people who are dying or pets   who are dying or you know, that   they are both ends of life and   I was thinking about my   three-year-old granddaughter   and how I listen when she   cries, all of those sorts of   things and how I attend when   she's trying new things like   trying, singing, and stuff. So,   you can put in any words you   want. I'll probably use trying   Um I don't know for sure. But   you can use any words you want.   So so this part stacks up   harmonies on top of it. And I'm   not going to teach those per   se. I'll just add them in in   the looper as we go. So we can   sing. Okay? That's the whole   outline of the song. I'm   going to put it in my looper so   I can sing both parts. But you   can start singing as soon as   you want.  are you crying to be  I am listening  are you needing to be known  I'm attending to you  are you crying to be  listening to each other.   Beautiful. Ah. Wow. And usually   I did this little cymbal crash   at the end. I lead an online   group called Pocket Songs.   Pocket Song Singers. And at the   end because I'm not always   great about ending songs with a   looper. Um you know sometimes   it's a little chaotic going   out. We always do a cymbal   crash. Yay. Wonderful. To   emphasise. Fantastic. And that   is such a sweet experience like   that and you mentioned pocket   songs. So tell people about   Pocket Song s and how people   want to experience more of your   singing. How do they do that?   Well Pocket Song s is this   online group that I do twice a   week. The same set of songs   twice a week. We do six or   eight songs in a session, an   hour long session. Right. And   you can find it Juneberry   Music. com. Yeah. Um and it's   it's a lovely lovely group of   people and we do we do lots of   different songs. I like it ends   up being 60 to 80 songs over   the course of a 14 week term.   There's drop in. People can   just come and drop in anytime.   We love new faces. Yeah. Okay.   Well I can speak from personal   experience having been able to   attend some of your sessions   early in the pandemic. That   it's just really sweet and   wonderful. And you have such a   way of using but if you're   still still doing this,   opportunities like in breakout   rooms during the session. So,   just that the connecting with   other participants and feeling   like you're really getting to   know people. Yeah. Yeah. We do   that occasionally. Yup. And we   also do, one of the things   people love is that we do a   sing-along song that's sort of   from the 70s usually. It's   kind of like from my era of the   songs that I know by heart   still because I learned them   when I was a teenager and so   sort of seventies, 80s,   sixties, huge songs and we just   sing along. I play piano and   sing long. Those are fun too.   Because sometimes your brain is   tired after an hour of of   learning new songs or you know   songs that are maybe some   familiar but. I remember back   in the early days of the   pandemic the the sonic   landscape of our house changed   a lot when I would hear from   the next room next to my office   the sound of Welsh singing. It   was lovely. And and the sound   of flamenco body percussion. I   understand you're responsible   for a lot of this. No it's a   What is he talking about? We   did this. Um I was during the   pandemic as a choral director,   you know, gathering a bunch of   people in a room to breathe on   each other. Didn't seem like   such a clever idea and so, I   couldn't meet with my my big   community chorus anymore and so   I thought, well, what could we   do that would be unique to what   we can do right now and I   thought, well, we could learn   we could do body percussion   with an expert from New York   City, Claudia Rajanoto, came   and worked us. We could learn   Welsh and partner with the   Welsh Choir. Um so we did we   learned this Welsh song and   they are still working on   putting together our videos to   make a virtual choir of our   choruses combined. Um you know,   things that we could do that   that we could experiment with   that we couldn't do meeting in   person. And so I created this   project called Zoomberry. And   Cathy was one of the people.   There were people from all   around. Um it was really really   exciting. And I was so honored   that so many people were   willing to make such an effort   to sing Um because it matters,   right? When we sing, it makes a   difference to us. The Welsh   song was composed for the   occasion, am I right? It was   composed for the Welsh Choir   working in the pandemic for   their first virtual choir   piece. So, it was composed for   the occasion of the pandemic.   Right. Yeah. And then they put   out an invitation for other   choruses to join them. Mm hmm.   So people wanted to taste of   what you did, we understand   there is a documentary was made   and you worked with a young   filmmaker. Yeah. And I think   yeah and there's all kinds of   yeah great links being put in   the chat. So yeah a link to   that documentary. People can   people can see that. Yep. So   you may you may you may look   around and you will recognize   people. You'll at least now   you'll recognize at least two   possibly more if you're from   the from that area of the world   because of course Patricia is   in it and I'm in it somewhere.   No Absolutely. It was a lovely   experience. And you have   there's friends of the DAS room   who have been part of your   podcast. Of course Leah Morris   and Wendy Luella. Tell us about   your gorgeous and wonderful   podcast to help people can find   that. Well this was another   pandemic project. You know I I   started doing this these pocket   songs online and I loved them.   And I was building up all of   these wonderful songs that I   wanted to remember. I wanted to   keep singing And I started to   think I really should make a   library out of these songs for   myself. And it just seemed like   an overwhelming project. There   were so many songs. And then I   thought well what if I did it   as blog posts Mhm. And then   tagged the blog post. So it was   searchable. And then I would   just have to deal with one song   a week. And then I thought well   it's a song. What if I made it   a podcast so one could actually   hear it. And then I was also   thinking about breathing. how   much breathing was mattering to   me and I was doing actually a   breath project with a Danish   song leader who was leading   guiding people through   breathing exercises and it that   was such a beautiful exercise   and I thought what if I   combined breathing just a   little bit of just touch base   kind of breathing with singing   and also made a searchable   archive of these songs. So,   what I love about this podcast   is not only that I've gotten to   feature all these like Leah   Morris and Wendy Luella Perkins   absolutely and all these   wonderful singers, songwriters,   and works of theirs and all my   favorites. You know, I don't   put up any song that I don't   absolutely love. But I also got   to they're all grouped. So, now   I can go on that website and I   can just click, I can go down   and I can search by songs about   darkness or songs about light   or songs about trust. Or in   three, four, or Dorian mode or   so I got to tag them all. So, I   was looking to make a resource   both for myself and for other   song leaders. Mm hmm. Um and   that's one of the things that's   a huge honor about this this   podcast is that the people who   people who subscribe to the   newsletter, the the weekly, you   know, announcement, the blurb   that goes out when a podcast   goes out. They receive the   people who are on that list   includes so many song leaders   and that's an honor and it also   includes so many people who   just sing to take care of   themselves Mm hmm. And that's   an equal honor. So, I'm I'm   just I I love watching that   grow and I got to partner with   an artist, Patty Piotrowski,   creates an unique piece of art   for each episode. So, it's   beautiful. Mm hmm. To me  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A gorgeous, a   gorgeous collection. So, highly   encourage people. Sort of like   people who know the the Daily   Antidote, know you want to tell   everybody about it, right? And   you know you want them to be   here because it's going to be   meaningful, enriching, and and   fantastic. Well, I would like   to say the same thing about   Patricia's Breath of Song   Podcast that it's you know,   typically, you know, they'll   range anywhere from 15 minutes,   you know, to 20 minutes if if   if Patricia is teaching one   song but there might be like   lovely conversations and you   you can see when you search   them if if their conversations   with with with the composers.   An easy way to find those   conversations is there are   always multiples of five. Five,   15, 20, twenty-5. Those are all   conversations with with song   leaders, songwriters. Great.   Well. And I'm hoping that Cathy   and Dick are going to be on it.   We are in conversation. That's   right. That's good. Yes. Yeah.   Yeah. Great fun. Well, sure   there's I'm I'm so glad that   people are getting you know a   little glimpse into who you are   and what you offer in the world   and I I I hope you'll be seeing   you know more of this wonderful   nourishing cross fertilization   that happens with people   starting to show up more in   your spaces and there's so many   exciting things we could talk   about but I would love it if we   could reprise your song again.   Absolutely. And I know it's   it's so flies when we're   singing delicious songs with   wonderful people. Doesn't it?   So I have it on the looper   already. So, maybe we'll just   use the version that I've got.   Sure. Um. And maybe we'll add   more percussion as we go.   Because. You can't. Because we   can.  Remember that melody? You can   echo back to me? Here we go.   One more time. Are you crying   to be heard?  I am listening  are you needing to be known  I'm attending to you are you   crying to be heard are you   crying to be heard  So if people want more,   Patricia, you could go straight   from here to her podcast and   you know, have a listen and   learn something new today. Uh   so many, so many wonderful   offerings and we do want to   give another plug for something   created by Carol Johnson which   we know can be found on the   Daily Antidote Facebook group   and many of us would have   received it. I will move it   very slowly across the screen.   There is this fabulous word   search. There is a fabulous   crossword puzzle which we have   both of them. Oh my goodness.   And great fun. Thank you Carol   for your yeah for your   brilliant cleverness. Also, if   I am not incorrect, Carol   created a spreadsheet, right?   Yes. Carol said behind the the   spreadsheet which archives all   the Daily Antidote sessions.   So, if you're finding. The   guest was what the song title   was? Yes. If you find that   you're stuck and can't get all   of the answers to the the   crossword, you might be able to   scan through and see some names   forgotten that might be in the   crossword. There you go. I'll   tell you that. We needed that   to get our the last few clues   done. So. Hm. Yes. Ha ha. Very   clever indeed. So I wanted to   say if there are people who are   brand new to the room today be   sure to put your names in the   in the chat and where you are   from and Joe will probably   connect with you. Jojo Rassi   the the creator of this whole   thing. Um will connect connect   with you. We'll be saying   goodbye to people on Facebook   live. Thank you so much for   being here and know that the   Facebook live sessions, they're   all archived online too. So,   you can sing all of these songs   again that way. And There's a   link to the spreadsheet. I just   put it in the chat. Oh, wow.   Aren't you clever? I   understand. So, thank you   everyone for being here. Dude,   make a point of looking around   your your device and you know,   making eye contact with all   these beautiful people and   names in bright, bright, white   lights and we will sing you out   of the room again and we know   that was for some that was the   first time they'd heard the   news about Ian Tyson. Mm hmm.   Um So, we'll sing you, sing you   out with this. Jaden, anything   we're missing? Nope. We covered   it all. Wow.  Thanks, Patricia.  thank you Patricia. I'm so glad   that people got to know you   here. There's so much that you   offer to this world. Thanks to   Jayden who rocked the tech. as   usual  glad you're here Jojo even   though we can't see you it's   hard to imagine you ever being   scary goodbye Arlene and   Berkeley goodbye Bronwyn. Right   here in Victoria.  goodbye to Dory and your   beautiful black cat. Is that   Ollie? It was so sweet to see   you attending to each other on   that song. Goodbye to Sarah in   Texas. goodbye, Lynn, and to   Darla, give her a scritch   behind the ears for us. Goodbye   to Gary with all the solutions.   Goodbye, Luda, also in   Victoria, goodbye to cricket,   goodbye today brain Kentucky   goodbye Susan  oh it's so sweet to see it   together Miles and Amanda   thanks for being here all so   diligently goodbye Linda on   Orcas Island goodbye Storm I   know we'll probably see you   Wednesday night with our   singing Goodbye to Aloysius   goodbye to Hoda goodbye Mabel   and Bob and the bears in the   same square goodbye to Kevin   and your flute I'd love to you   life someday  goodbye to Jen saw one in   Maryland goodbye Jenny and   Suffolk UK goodbye to Becky   goodbye Karen glad you were   here Kim Wallace in New   Hampshire goodbye Dan Walker so   sorry to be the bearer of that   news goodbye to Sheila in North   Florida goodbye cat [ __ ]   goodbye to Caroline you're so   helpful it's amazing Carolyn   helps us with the GHC by   posting lyrics and scores and   so many other other wonderful   things and we met her here   goodbye to Bob goodbye Carol J   you're creativity and your tech   skills are impressive we'll   talk about spreadsheets we   changed my screens are goodbye   to Penny and Ralph we're glad   you're here great to see you in   Toronto goodbye Isabel Kutz and   goodbye Kathleen in Albuquerque   goodbye Fred in Silver Springs   goodbye Leah in Illinois   goodbye Jane in Texas goodbye   Anne in Silver Springs goodbye   Sue goodbye Nancy in Vermont oh   goodbye hello curly tops I kind   of thought that was a cool   octopus I'll have to know what   it was another time goodbye   Jamie goodbye Deli thanks for   being here goodbye Linda   goodbye Jane goodbye Annette oh   goodbye and hello Kevin Ennis   we're so glad you're here   sending you all the love   goodbye to Diane in Puerto Rico   I've got that right and will   possibly see you Wednesday   night as well I think that's   everyone here in this room so   glad we had this morning   together  a wonderful way to be together   in musical community and   supporting each other in this   wonderful daily it out of  Mwah. 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