A wonderful set of five folksongs with French lyrics, your choir will find these easy to learn and your audience will find them a pleasure to listen to!1. Pitit an moin (My Little Child): When my child asks me to give him milk, I give him something good to eat. Sleep, little one; your father is gond. Your lonely mother is in misery... Your lonely mother must hurry now.2. Dou manman (Dear Mother): Dear mother, do you remember when you hugged me? Every night the good Lord made me fall asleep. Father is leaving with his canoe to fish in the blue sea of Miquelan. The radio has announced a cyclone.3. Vakans' rive (Vacation is Starting): This song tells of the children (Ro and Fanot) flying a kite, hiding behind a tree, betting marbles, eating sugarcane juice, looking for firewood, walking on stilts, and cooking mollusks.4. Papillon vole (Fly, Butterfly): The carnival has come. Everyone hurries to see the masks. The dance will be starting soon with the first sound of music. We will f

Arranger: Electo Silva

Five delightful and accessible folksongs with French lyrics are to be sung together as a set any choir would enjoy singing these!1. Ti zuazo (Little Bird): A little bird, on her way to Mrs. Lal's house, warns the children not to go there because Mrs. Lalo may try to eat them. However, the song is quite playful because the nightingale eats only fruit.2. Muen soti nan vil Leogan (I Come from the Town of Leogane): This slow, soft song tells how the singer hears that his mama is sick. He is sad that he cannot be at her bedside.3. Feill oh (Leaves, Oh!): The singer hopes that a good healer will be able to save a sick little boy. The words are repeated rhythmically as part of the healing charm.4. Dodo Titit (Sleep, Little Child): The child must fall asleep before a crab comes. The second verse tells that the child's parents are away at the river.5. Frere Jacques Kilik Kilik: Brother John, are you sleeping? The little bells are ringing. Kilik, kilik, give me a piece of banana; give

Arranger: Electo Silva

This exciting work is based on two sources: a traditional Spanish song and a traditional Creole-Argentenian song. The opening has a slow tempo and wimple rhythms, followed by a lively, celebrative dance. The percussion builds throughout, beginning with a triangle and tom-tom, then adds tambourine, and ends with everybody's favorite - the vibraslap.

Arranger: Oscar Escalada

The highly anticipated treble arrangement! Astor Piazzolla is known around the world for his creative works incorporating the traditional sounds and rhythms of the Argentinian tango. Oscar Escalada masterfully uses nonsense syllables to give singers the opportunity to lend their voices to this delightful work. A guaranteed audience pleaser!

Arranger: Oscar Escalada | Composer: Astor Piazzolla

The malambo is an Argentinean gaucho dance. It is performed only by men. The gauchos were of mixed Spanish and Indian heritage. They worked as cattle herders and are still celebrated by stories and songs because they were the heroes of the Pampas, the grassy plains around Buenos Aires. Gauchos were very honest and independent men. The two dancers perform a kind of fight: the first dancer "draws" a figure with his feet that must be repeated by the second one. When it is the second dancer's turn, he will draw another figure which must be duplicated by the first dancer. The figures are called mudanzas. The dance is over when one of the dancers cannot repeat the drawing of the other or cannot think of a new drawing.

Arranger: Oscar Escalada

Pueblito mi pueblo (O Village So Lovely) is a warm and elegant melody for unison, solo voice, or two parts with solo. Guastavino has cleverly given each part a nice melody, even though one is the main melody and the other is accompaniment.