Carpe Diem Arts - DAS Artist Quotes

Song Leader Quotes

Jo Rasi [founder/Director of the Daily Antidote] is a national treasure.
-Peggy Seeger, UK

We are inspired, supported, healed… you feel a sense of community here.
- Carol Maillard (of Sweet Honey in the Rock), NY

Thank you for leaning into music and helping other people…to find some solace amidst this pandemic.
I’m so grateful to you for this community.
- Crys Matthews, TN

Daily Antidote of Song — a consistently delightful daily hour where voices from around the world
unite in diversity, creativity, and unfiltered joy, proving that music connects, heals, and soothes
beyond all borders. I just love being part of this JOY ❤
-Matlakala Bopape, South Africa

This is an amazing, amazing experience. I seriously don’t know how I would have made it through the pandemic without the Daily Antidote, it was truly a life saver when I desperately needed a place to sing and to be with people. I think the Daily Antidote really saved lives. It saved my life, it saved spirit, it saved good mood, it saved graciousness, and I am very very happy to be a part of it.
- Ysaye Barnwell (former Sweet Honey in the Rock), DC

Thank you so much for welcoming us into your circle and sustaining our family.
Thank you beautiful, amazing community-family… empowering, strengthening — music is medicine.
- Clayson Benally, Dine (Navajo) Nation

Being a part of the Daily Antidote of Song community brought the power and energy of song alive in a whole new way. Gathering, looking into each other's eyes and singing... even for a few minutes each day, sparked feelings of love and connection that got us through the hard days of the pandemic. It set us up to move forward in a shared commitment to courage and hope.
- Reggie Harris, MI

Such an amazing and well-orgainized project you've maintained for so long! You are blowing wind in the sails of humanity, helping us to reach a brighter shore!
- Paul Tinkerhess, Singing Resistance Ann Arbor, Pod 2

Steven and Jo, I need to go,
but I don’t I don’t wanna go home.
Shine like I’m supposed to do,
even through the Zoom, I still feel close to you.
- SaulPaul, TX, improvising "Banana Boat Song"
Daily Antidote Archive Challenge Week partnership with American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

The Daily Antidote is truly a wonder in the range, dedication and scope of joy it offers to SO MANY.
- Moira Smiley, VT

This changed my life in many ways… now looking at a family that has been created from all across the world. Especially in the last year, when there was a lot of difficulty and a lot of pain going throughout people’s hearts... and through that time, we were able to create such a beautiful imagination.
- Chinobay, NC

I have met so many inspiring songleaders and learned so many songs that I use in my own song circles. The Daily Antidote has been medicine for not only my soul, but for the soul of our community!
-Elise Witt, GA

This has been something that has brought hope in so many people’s lives.
I know that for so many people, this has been an extraordinary anchor.
- Joe Jencks, IL