Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:
Monday Morning Breakfast Blend with Carol
A tribute out to the #RVA protest organizers who are keeping the force going. Your requests embedded in a show highlighting primarily black women musicians (a couple men show up per request) writing songs and singing from medieval to metal, from American, European, and African continents. I ease you into your day and push the energy halfway through. Follow along with me celebrating black women and non-binary folks saving the world.
Show Archive
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Susanne Norin, Barbara Thornton & Sequentia, “O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti”
from Hildegard Von Bingen - Canticles of Ecstasy
deutsche harmonia mundi - 1994
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Janet Youngdahl, Barbara Thornton & Sequentia, “Quia Ergo Femina Mortem Instruxit”
from Hildegard Von Bingen - Canticles of Ecstasy
deutsche harmonia mundi - 1994
"The Women is Dead Set" 1098 – 17 September 1179 Hildegard was one of the first persons for whom the Roman canonization process was officially applied, but the process took so long that four attempts at canonization were not completed and she remained at the level of her beatification. Hildegard used her voice to amplify the Church's condemnation of institutional corruption, in particular simony.She has been considered by many in Europe to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. There are more surviving chants by Hildegard than by any other composer from the entire Middle Ages, and she is one of the few known composers to have written both the music and the words
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Jessye Norman, “Amazing Grace”
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American opera singer - died last year.
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Bessie Smith, “Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out)”
from The History of Blues: Two
Orange Leisure - 2010
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Amine Bouhafa, “Timbuktu Fasso (feat. Fatoumata Diawara)”
from Timbuktu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Universal Music Division Decca Records France - 2014
The song is written and sung by Fatoumata Diawara , Malian actress and songwriter. Diawara sings primarily in Bambara, the national language of Mali, and builds on the tradition of "songs of advice" from the culture of her ancestral Wassoulou region
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Fena Gitu, “Save the World”
from Unleashed
Fenamenal Entertainment - 2019
Fena Gitu, aka Fenmenal Woman is a Kenyan music artist
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Titi Lo'kei, “Where Is Our 10% (Oxfam Ambassadors) [feat. 2Baba, Sound Sultant, Baaba Maal, Smarty, Lami Phillips, Daara J Family, Ceepee & Danny Lee]”
from No Boundaries
N.I.N.A.A - 2018
Chigerian Titi Lokei is a Nigerian heritage, Chicago born hiphop artist. As an Oxfam Ambassador, she has teamed up with African artists such as Baaba Mal and 2Face Idibia to call on African heads of state to keep their promises when they signed the 2003 Maputo declaration — where African leaders promised to spend at least 10 percent of their national budget on agriculture.
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Donny Hathaway, “Someday We'll All Be Free”
from A Donny Hathaway Collection
Atlantic Records - 1990
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Donny Hathaway, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”
from A Donny Hathaway Collection
Atlantic Records - 1990
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Noisettes, “Don't Upset the Rhythm (Go Baby Go)”
from Wild Young Hearts (Bonus Track Version)
Virgin EMI - 2009
Shingai Shoniwa is the founder of the Noisettes. She has a history of singing in different genres and fun fact learned circus skills as a teen.
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![The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Version]](https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/v4/db/b2/07/dbb2071e-51a8-6735-2106-8779b8b3b682/source/150x150bb.jpg)
Noisettes, “Sister Rosetta (2011 Version)”
from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Version]
Chop Shop/Atlantic - 2011
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Big Joanie, “Crooked Room”
Sistah Punk Records - 2017
Big Joanie is an all black women punk band: Steph, Chardine, and Kiera. Crooked Room talk about self esteem issues black women face in a world that looks down on them.
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Brittany Howard, “History Repeats”
from Jaime
ATO Records - 2019
Brittany Howard is an award winning musician, the guitarist and lead vocalist of Alabama Shakes and Thunderbitch.
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Straight Line Stitch, “Black Veil”
KOCH Records - 2008
Alexis Brown headlines this band. One of the most popular musicians in the heavy metal scene.
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Militia Vox, “Born out of Darkness”
from The Villainess
Militia Vox - 2018
Militia Vox is the vocalist for Brooklyn's Judas Priestess, she is also the founder, lead singer and songwriter for Swear on Your Life and was the lead vocalist for Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider's heavy metal orchestra, Van Helsing's Curse.
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Carol Olson Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution June 22nd, 2020
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: black women, carol olson, medieval to metal, mondaymorningbreakfastblend