Recorded at Zoellner Arts Center on the campus of Lehigh University.

PBS 39 proudly presents Sonia de Los Santos and the Okie Dokie Brothers.

There's a Country Stomp Jamboree and a Country Stomp Jamboree every Friday night Jamboree dance around camp.

Don't look like mud Jamboree and it ain't no Joe Jamboree.

While that dance jamboree polished and flowing.

Play this song over at home.

We play the song Jamboree.

Jamboree.

Yeah!

Let's meet up, dancer and sing.

Yell it out.

There's a little lady jamboree.

There's a big old Mays jamboree.

The fans of me Jamboree, state Jamboree and the Guitar Bear Jamboree.

And I'm broken, strange heart and the Beatles.

Fly me.

Everyone say I play the song.

Almost donkey song.

We play the song Jamboree.

Jamboree I'm the all right.

This time we're gonna whisper as quietly as possible.

Please.

In your pants.

Jamboree clothes on the floor of Jamboree.

Suppose you can dance.

You can count to four.

Jamboree.

So grab you a partner.

And hold on tight.

Jamboree.

Cause we ain't stopping every season.

As I play this song.

We are, we, we play the song A jamboree.

Jamboree.

Oh.

Play the song way off me.

Play the song Starry Jamboree.

No.

Jamboree.

Jamboree, no.

Jamboree.

Jamboree I.

All right, give yourselves a hand.

Hi, everyone.

Ola know when I started this?

When I started.

So happy to be here.

We'll just get to singing this song called Alegria.

Can everybody say Alegria Alegre?

What does that mean?

Joy.

Happiness.

Right.

So that's the spirit of the song.

So if you're able to please put your hands up like this and repeat after me.

Alegria, Alegria.

Alegria alegre.

That's going to be your part in the song.

Sweet.

Sounds good.

You very nice, nice song I love it.

Well, I think we kicked it off with some good energy.

But you know what?

I just realized we didn't really introduce ourselves.

Oh, yes.

Yes, we should introduce ourselves.

So I would like to introduce you first to the amazing Sonya de Los Santos.

Everybody say hi.

Sonya.

Hi, Sonya.

Hola.

All right.

And, yeah, the other two guys up here.

We are, the okey dokey brothers.

So good to be here in Bethlehem.

Thanks for coming out.

And, I should introduce you to that guy over there.

I've known him since I was just three years old.

We grew up together in Denver, Colorado, and his name is Joe.

Everybody say hi, Joe.

Oh, hi.

Nice to meet you.

That over there is Justin.

Everybody say, hey, Justin.

Hey, hey, hey.

Justin's playing the five string.

What?

What's that instrument?

That's right.

It's a banjo.

Yeah, and this is the sixth string.

What guitar?

It's an acoustic guitar.

Right.

And we have Sonia playing the, Any idea, you know, here?

Ukulele.

Is that right?

Ukulele is a really good guess.

Actually.

It's kind of tuned like a ukulele, but this is a Mexican traditional guitar called Sadhana.

Can everybody say Karana?

Run.

Yeah.

And you get to hear it today in the show.

Yeah.

And what we're doing today is we're playing folk music.

Right?

These instruments with these melodies, you'll hear some old folk songs and some new original songs that we wrote.

But folk music is music of the people, right?

It's music that you can sing along to, that you can dance to.

Maybe you can sing it around a campfire and there's, Latin folk songs.

Sonia's from Mexico, so there's Mexican folk songs, and there's American folk songs that have melded to today for this show called, Somos Amigos.

Songs on common ground.

Right.

So we're kind of seeing how the different genres can mix together and the different languages can mix together.

Sonia is really good at English and Spanish.

Justin and I are are okay at English and very average at Spanish.

Yeah, but we're trying our best to kind of learn it and and to sing and it's super fun.

So if you're learning Spanish to join in with us, maybe you already know Spanish really well.

You can help us out.

So let's kick it off with a song about kind of being friends.

Yeah, this one's called Somos Amigos.

Does anybody know what that means?

Somos amigos.

We are friends.

Very good.

Yeah.

That's right.

Yes we are.

And here's a song in Spanish.

In English.

Singing along.

If you know the chorus, we'll put the lyrics up for you.

It doesn't matter if you call it a Stetson or a sombrero.

It's a how that steers the herd.

Doesn't matter if you call them cowboys or by cattle.

The best ones eat their words.

Doesn't matter if you say them or send your reader when you're writing to be said and sung.

Doesn't matter if you call them Y por la verdad.

It's better when you're with someone.

Somos amigos.

Somos amigos.

amigos, Amigos.

Doesn't matter if you call it flag or Bandera.

It just tells you where you are.

Doesn't matter if you call it border or Frontera.

It disappears by strumming a guitar.

It's over.

Amigo.

Oh, no.

amigos.

Amigos, tenemos We're all amigos.

Each have a different song.

Amigos, amigos.

That's why we get along.

Let's get em all.

What do you want to be?

If you want a song, you want song.

You gotta sing.

You gotta say you are a song.

You want song you gotta sing.

You gonna sing this.

Once you find a song.

Then the world can sing along.

If you want a song, you want a song.

You gotta sing I'll sing.

If you want change, want change, you gotta change, you gotta change.

If you want change, you want to.

You gotta change, you gotta change.

Because once you change yourself.

Then you can change something else you want.

Change one, change you gotta change a change.

If not now, then when?

Not later, not then.

If not us, then who?

It's gotta be me and you.

If you wanna love you.

All the love I give it away, give it away.

If you want love.

You only gotta give away.

Gotta give it away.

And the best place to start is inside your little heart.

If you want love.

Give it away, give it away.

If you want a song, you want song.

You gotta sing, you gotta sing.

If you want a song, you want a song.

You gotta sing.

You got to sing.

Cause once you find the song.

Then the world can sing along.

If you want a song, you want song.

You gotta sing.

You gotta say.

If you are a song.

You want a song you gotta sing.

You gotta see.

You.

Need.

All right, well I've got a song.

Special song I'd like to share today.

You know, when I was just a little girl, I remember going to my grandmother's house.

We would sit on our porch.

And I love just watching this nest with birds that lived in the little corner there of the house.

One day I went back there and I asked, my grandma, where are the birds?

They were gone.

And she said, Sonia, don't worry, they will come back.

They are golden, swallow birds.

And that's when I learned about migrant birds.

Have you ever heard about migrant birds?

Some of you might.

Okay.

Migrant birds sometimes travel very long distances looking for better weather, among other things.

And then many years later, I was just thinking about the golden, as in my own journey migrating from Monterrey, Mexico, where I'm originally from, to New York.

And I wrote this next song called Largo Laundry.

Now, does anyone here know the Spanish word for up?

If you know it, yell it out.

Up.

Okay.

Here.

All right, everybody say arriba, arriba, and down is.

Everyone say our home.

By our arms.

In Spanish, we call them Brazos.

So if I say Brazos, can you put your arms up like this?

Abajo.

Arriba.

Abajo.

Oh.

All right, this is.

How are we gonna fly all the way to México?

All right.

Good flying everyone.

Now we're going to learn a rhythm called Cafe Companion.

Can you say cafe compan con band.

That means coffee with bread.

That's what the rhythm is called.

It actually sounds like this cafe compan cafe combined coffee.

Don't say it with us.

Cafe.

Now let's add some claps.

Cafe compan.

Combine.

Cafe.

Combine.

You can also play this rhythm with your feet.

Very nice.

Sonya.

Thank you.

I love that song.

Wow.

It's a classic.

Well, you know, a couple of years ago, Joe and I, we took a little canoe trip, and we went down the Mississippi River, and, we were out there trying to be inspired by nature.

You know, we took a 30 day trip.

We're camping on the banks of the river, and we're just seeing what we found out there.

Didn't know what we'd find, but we found a lot of river and water and a lot of friendship to.

So that's kind of what this song is about.

This one's called Can You Canoe?

That's right.

Get your paddles out like this.

I'm gonna do what's called the paddle dance.

Try it with me.

Ready?

You.

Shoo shoo shoo.

Otherside.

Shoo shoo shoo shoo.

It's very relaxing.

Dance.

All right, so just sit back.

Relax.

Pretend like you're floating down a river.

And sing along.

We don't need a motor.

We don't need a sailing.

We don't need no fins or gills.

And we don't need a tail.

Let's just keep it simple.

We'll each get unknown out loud to No Man's lake.

And float till we can't.

No more.

And you canoe long a little boat built for two.

Can you, can you?

I'll be a captain.

And your crew.

Can you canoe?

If there's nothing better to do.

I wanna float down a river with you.

Sing that part I wanna float down a river with you.

Very nice.

All right, get those paddles out.

Let's see that paddle dance.

There it is.

Looking good.

We don't need no outlets.

We don't need no wires.

Primetime entertainment.

I'll be lightning bugs and fires.

Let's just keep it simple.

Unplugged and outside.

Sound waves on the water.

Don't need to be amplified.

In you canoe on a little boat built for two can you can do.

I'll be your captain and your crew.

And you canoe.

If there's nothing better to do.

I wanna float down a river with you.

Sing it again I wanna float down a river with you.

I'll take the bow.

Brother.

You can take the stern.

I'll move us forward.

And you choose when to turn.

Let's just keep it simple.

We all need a friend in this current moment.

Instead of looking around the band.

Here we go.

Can you canoe?

Long little boat built for two.

Can you canoe?

I'll be your captain and your crew.

Can you canoe?

If there's nothing better to do.

I wanna float down a river with you.

Sing it again I wanna float down a river with you.

One more I wanna float down on a river with you.

You see me?

I love that song.

I think that's a good one.

It's a good one.

What do you say we, get em up and dance in a yes?

Yeah, I have a song just for that.

Okay.

You're able to on the count of three, would you please stand up?

One.

Two.

Three.

Stand up.

All right, stretch out.

Maybe you can find some room.

Yeah.

Do they need to.

Do they need to find a partner?

Yes.

So let's do that.

So where you are, please find yourself a partner.

There could be groups of 2 or 3, right?

Or four, if you really want to stay together.

The main thing is don't leave anyone alone who doesn't want to be alone.

You know, invite them to your group.

And in the song, we're going to give you some specific moves we can do all together.

This song is called Tan Feliz, and it's about just having a good time with our friends.

The chorus of the song goes like this.

So you're going to point to your partner just like this demonstration here.

all we're saying is I have you and you have me.

Good.

Then it will start.

We have everything, so stretch your arms wide.

What else can we ask for exactly, then?

We have time.

So your pointer, your imaginary watch.

two.

Share.

Open your hands with gratitude on the last line.

You can spin around in a circle.

Yes.

The rest of the song.

Why don't we do wild free dancing?

Free dance?

Yeah, I know the wild kind.

Yeah, the wild kind.

The one.

Would you make each other laugh, you know.

Oh, yeah.

It.

I know that guy.

I'll try my best.

Are.

We'll walk together.

Together.

All around the neighborhood.

Neighborhood.

Looking for friends to join us on this afternoon afternoon.

When we do our dances, it'll be so fine under the sun.

You and me, we're gonna shine, one more time That's some good stuff.

I got some dancing now that feels good.

Nice.

Just think maybe if you were a bird, When the shadows of this have gone up.

Fly away like a bird from prison walls and snow up.

Fly with.

My, I will fly away.

Oh, glory, fly away in the morning when I die.

Hallelujah by am I.

Fly away.

I will fly away.

Oh, glory fly away in the morning when I die.

Hallelujah by my Fly away.

There.

Nice today.

Everyday I jump out a bit.

Smashed water all over my head.

Brushing my my teeth.

And make sure my ears are clean these days you gotta be strong.

So I do a push up and sing a song and pick on the guitar.

Stand by the tambourine.

Always good to change my socks.

No, the tools in my toolbox.

Learn people good I learn myself the best.

Don't get lonesome, stay glam.

Take a bath and wear some bad work when I can work.

But don't forget my rest and drink good, good all night long.

Rise up and sing your song.

They say life is hard and there's not wrong.

So keep that hope machine running strong The plan what you can plan.

Dance when you can.

Can laugh at yourself and make up your own jokes.

A little bit of fun, a little bit of growth.

Hopefully a little bit of both.

Love your mom, love your pie.

Love all kinds of hope.

Talk quiet and listen loud.

Teach humble and learn proud.

Scuffle with the struggle and wrestle with the pain.

Open homes, open blinds, open hearts, open minds.

And in the sunshine.

Let in the rain and dream good all night long.

Rise up and sing your song.

They say life is hard.

They're not wrong.

So keep them.

Oh machine running strong.

You gotta keep that hope.

Machine running strong All right.

Are you guys ready for a fast bluegrass song?

Wait.

They're ready for it.

Justin, wait.

We crossed this one off the set list.

We said no fast bluegrass song.

Oh, you're right, I'm looking.

I'm looking at my cellist.

It does say no fast bluegrass song.

It's got a big X on it, but it seems like you already started it.

I did I right that the train has left the station, as they say.

Justin.

So I think we got to play this.

Are you guys okay with us playing it even though we crossed it off?

Well, let me explain why we cross it off.

It's a song.

Yeah.

Hasn't been written yet.

Okay.

It's true, it's true.

Yeah.

It makes Justin a little nervous because, well, it makes me a little anxious, to tell you the truth.

Doesn't make you nervous.

I don't know this out.

Oh, you don't understand.

Okay.

Yeah, well, we got to make it up.

Okay, so we've got, Let's see.

What do we have?

Oh, we have a chorus.

Okay.

But we don't have a verse or any verses, so we got to make those up.

Okay.

It's a song we think about traveling around the world.

Okay.

So do we have any songwriters in the audience?

Any poets?

Anybody know how to rhyme?

Anybody know how to volunteer and help us out a little bit?

Okay, okay.

Very few hands and not looking good.

Yeah.

Now I think you guys could do it.

All right.

You'll help us when we need it.

Yeah.

You guys ready?

Let's go.

Here we go.

I'm going around this world, baby.

Five.

I'm going round this world.

They remind I'm going round the world I'm a banjo picking girl.

I'm going round this world, baby mine.

All right, that's the chorus.

It's a good chorus.

Now we need a verse.

Yeah.

I'm going to Carolina, baby mine.

All right I'm going to Carolina, baby mine I'm gon Carolina.

Because there ain't no place that's finer I'm going to Carolina, baby mine.

See what I did there Justin?

Yeah.

That's good.

You made up a rhyme.

I sure did in a spot.

Oh.

Okay, I'm going to do one, two and to get a little more local.

Here we go.

I'm going to Pennsylvania, baby.

My.

Yes, her.

I'm going to Pennsylvania.

Baby.

My God, I'm Pennsylvania.

What rhymes with Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania.

Like with a pencil.

But it's no, I think I understand Sylvania.

Oh I got I'm going to Pennsylvania and then to Transylvania.

I'm going to Pennsylvania.

Make a life that's good.

Where are you going?

So.

Yeah.

There you go.

Okay.

All right.

This is hard, but I'm going to try to go, somewhere in South America.

Let's see.

Help me out.

Correct.

What?

Oh, good good good good good.

Get him!

Come on around the world, baby.

I come around this world I'm a banjo picking girl I'm known around this world.

Baby mine Oh, what do we do now?

Oh, we need some help.

Oh, we need volunteers.

Where else can we go?

Other cities, other states, other countries.

Ideas.

Raise your hand.

Anybody out there?

Yeah.

You right there in, like, the one, two, three for third row.

Yeah.

Yell it out.

Go out.

Oh, I'm going over China baby, you know.

Oh hey China baby.

mine Over China.

Oh what rhymes with China.

Any ideas.

What.

Oh okay.

We're going over to China and then to South Carolina.

I'm gonna go to China, baby.

My first circle.

That's good.

Good, right.

All right, where else can we go?

I need some help.

I'm going to New York, baby.

Make it go to New York.

Baby mine I'm going to New York.

What do we got?

What rhymes with New York?

Oh.

Okay.

All right, I'm going to New York.

Going to eat pork with the fork.

I'm going to New York, baby, I wanna let you know you should eat pork with a spork.

Oh, boy, that is better.

Okay.

All right, I'll take one.

One more idea.

One more place where they get.

Oh, that's, that's a hard one there.

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

I'm going now to Bethlehem, baby.

mine.

I'm going to Bethlehem, baby.

mine.

I'm going out to Bethlehem.

What rhymes with Bethlehem?

Rhymes.

Any mayhem?

Hey.

Pretty good.

Okay, I'm going out to Bethlehem.

I'm going to start out up mayhem.

Yeah, I'm gonna have a Bethlehem baby.

Oh, my God, I'm here so not fair.

It's not fair.

I'm going round this world, baby mine.

around this world.

Baby mine I'm going around this world I'm a banjo pickin girl I'm going round this world.

Baby I'm born round this world, baby.

Mine.

Cuckoo.

Give it up for all those songwriters out there.

Yeah.

All right, well, there's something called, Fandango in Mexico, but it happens all over the world.

And to me, that it's like folk music at its best.

Why?

Because it brings people together.

It builds community.

You don't have to be a professional musician to join the musicians and the party.

And, I just love that about music.

Bring people together.

So this song is, is, honoring Fandango.

So it's kind of like a jamboree.

It's kind of like a jamboree.

Yeah, the Mexican version.

There's a lot of this instruments called Corrales.

Okay, okay.

Someone, somewhere and someone said, okay.

So, to dance and sing along to this one, please put your hands down here to your right and say fun.

Fun.

Okay, everybody.

One, two, three.

Fine.

Switch sides and say done, done.

Go, go.

Okay, Fandango.

Now let's do it in the right key.

Bam!

No, no.

You're pretty close.

Pretty close, pretty close.

All right, one more time, Fandango.

One more time.

Found down a little bit faster.

Fandango.

Okay.

All right.

That's going to be your part.

This one's good for dancing.

So if you feel like getting up and dancing.

Yeah.

You can do that.

Cuando para el fandango.

Siento una motion conmigo.

Arana yo canto e viva la tradition en woo.

And for these next ones.

For this next one in particular, we're just going to kind of, relax a little bit, and we're going to take a deep breath before we sing it.

Okay?

So everybody, on the count of three, let's take a deep breath in.

Ready?

One, two, three.

In.

Hold it and let it go.

Feels good.

Let's do it one more time.

One, two.

Three.

In.

Hold it out.

Let it go.

That's good.

Yeah.

This next song, you know, talks a little bit about that getting on the same page.

You know, we take a deep breath in like that and we feel a little more connected to everybody in the room.

Right after we're singing and dancing together, we feel a little bit more connected to.

Right.

And so, we were working on an album the last couple of years.

Justin and I called, Bramble Town about some critters in the woods that, you guys have heard Bramble Town before.

Maybe a couple people.

Yeah.

They're going through a time of separation and they're working their way back to connection, and community.

So this is one of the last songs on the album about how when we look around this beautiful planet full of life, that we can see this, light that connects us right?

And that we're all just one big super organism here, and we're little cells as a part of that.

So maybe think about that a little bit as we sing this song together.

Have you ever heard the way that the trees talk to one another.

Through the soil and the breeze.

Have you felt the light under the ground.

Weaving the earth to life all around the rain grows.

The grass on the grass feeds the herd.

The herd feeds the plant.

The plant feeds the bird.

The bird drops the seed.

The seed grows the trees.

The trees give the air.

The air that we breathe.

You and I are just one part of one big life.

One beating heart.

Because the life that's in you is the life that's in me.

And the life in the bird is the life in a tree.

And if we can believe in one thing that's true.

It's the life that's in me.

It's the life it's in you.

If we listened to the forest, we'd hear that it spoke.

And there's a message blowing through the maple and all that.

If we tried to pick something out by itself, we'll find it's connected to everything else.

The plant and the animal, the predator and prey.

The prairie and the fire.

The night and the day.

Love and grief, life and death are all bound together by the very same breath.

Because the life that's in you is the life that's in me.

And the life in a bird.

It's the life in a tree.

And if we can believe in one thing, it's true.

It's the life that's in me.

It's the life that's in you.

You who, who.

The life that's in you is the life that's in me.

And the life in the bird is the life in the tree.

And if we can believe in one thing that's true.

It's a life that's in me.

It's the life it's in you.

Thank you very much.

All right.

Yes.

I think we should do one more song.

Yeah.

All right, let's go out with a bang for this one.

If you're able, we need everybody standing up on the count of three.

Ready?

One.

Two.

Three.

Stand up.

Yeah.

Find a partner for this one to stretch out a little bit.

Find some room.

We're going to be linking elbows with our partner.

Swinging them around and round.

Going to have a little freeform square dance.

All right.

So find a brother sister mom dad and uncle.

Kids convince the grown ups to stand up on this one and dance with you.

Yeah.

For this one.

Got it.

Yeah.

All we need from you is to yell out the words hi ho.

Hi.

Okay.

When does that happen?

That happens in the chorus.

Throw up our fists again and.

Oh, nice.

Yell it out.

Let's try.

All right, let's try it.

You're going to play a different instrument.

Oh, we got the tambourine coming out for now, we're gonna have some fun.

All right, let's try it.

Hi ho!

On the count of three.

Ready?

One.

Two.

Three.

Hi ho!

Hi.

See?

And swing your arm in.

Swing.

Dance, dance, dance.

I see dance boats and dance, dance all night for the break.

They hope and dance.

Bouncing home and do most anything.

When the boat making short runs.

But out on the dance floor.

Hi ho, the bouncing pro floating down the river on the Ohio.

Hi ho them up and running up and down the river on the Ohio.

Oh yeah.

Oh well, grab your partner by the hands.

I'm not saying grab that guy by the hand or swing.

Or rather, not into the break.

Dance found the same thing in most anything.

When the ball gets your load out on the dance floor.

Hey ho ho.

And float on the river on the Ohio.

I hold an open road.

Up and down the river.

On the Ohio switch.

Partners.

Cause you know.

Ain't Abraham heel over heels.

Oh, you dance better.

You feel better if I swing my partner around?

Around swing around I say swing that gal up and down.

Running is another.

Come on down around the break, babe.

Both names and singles you most anything for when the boat man gets your rowboat out on the dance floor I hold on and roll down the river on the Ohio hi ho, the rope comes down.

The river's on the other side.

Oh oh.

Oh, hey whoa whoa whoa.

Before.

Hey, thanks so much, everybody.

Everybody appreciate you coming out today.

Well, thank you, thank you.

You know what I was thinking?

Was it okay if we go right?

It's just, Okay.

Yeah.

You know, we just had a little band meeting here.

I know it's getting close to naptime, but we got one more song for you, okay?

Okay.

We are not going to go off and come back on.

We're just going to sing a special song that Sonya translated that it feels like the right thing to sing right now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I did not grow up to the music of Woody Guthrie, but I learned to love it along the way.

So this is a song by Woody Guthrie.

He wrote many important songs for his time, but also for our time.

I feel like songs that talked about social justice and building a better world, taking care of our world.

And, this is a song I love called This Land Is Your Land.

And I'll tell you why it's special to me.

I hear this song as a welcoming song and it's so nice to feel welcome, but sometimes it's even nicer when you do have the opportunity to make others feel welcome.

So in that spirit, we're going to share this song.

Woo!

Yeah.

All right.

I followed my footsteps through the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts.

And all around me a voice was sounding singing.

This land was made for you and me.

This land is your land.

This land is my land.

From California to the New York I live from the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters.

This land was made for you and me.

And as I travel this land, I met some friends like Joe and Justin.

We sang in English and in Spanish and learned that music can give a voice to the voiceless and that this land is truly made for all of us.

This land was made for you and me.

Whoo!

All right.

Thanks so much, everybody.

Thanks for coming out.

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