Join opera singer Measha Brueggergosman on a personal journey as she explores the music of her ancestors and performs a powerful selection of freedom songs that came from Africa to North America via the slave trade. Songs of Freedom offers a dynamic stylistic blend of historical documentary, personal quest and musical performance as we follow Measha from her home on the East coast of Canada to the country of her ancestors on the West coast of Africa. Songs of Freedom presents 18 well-known freedom songs including Amazing Grace, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Go Down Moses - all arranged with flare and originality by composer/pianist Aaron Davis. Also featured is the Nova Scotia Mass Choir conducted by Marko Simmonds, the Ebenezar Choir of Cameroon and the charismatic young Cameroon vocalist, Sanzy Viany.
Disc 1
01 Ride on King Jesus - Measha Brueggergosman
02 Wade in the Water - Measha Brueggergosman
03 This Little Light of Mine - Measha Brueggergosman
04 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Measha Brueggergosman
05 Motherless Child - Measha Brueggergosman
06 Partons, La Mer est Belle - Measha Brueggergosman
07 Blessed Assurance - Measha Brueggergosman
08 I Surrender All - Measha Brueggergosman
09 Off to Cameroon - Measha Brueggergosman
10 Amazing Grace - Measha Brueggergosman
11 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Measha Brueggergosman
12 Go Down Moses - Measha Brueggergosman
13 Deep River - Measha Brueggergosman
14 He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - Measha Brueggergosman
15 Go Tell It On The Mountain - Measha Brueggergosman
16 Credits - Measha Brueggergosman