{"id":51940,"date":"2020-08-26T17:20:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T23:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bayfield-woman-sings-in-grassroots-joe-biden-campaign-song\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T23:20:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T23:20:30","slug":"bayfield-woman-sings-in-grassroots-joe-biden-campaign-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bayfield-woman-sings-in-grassroots-joe-biden-campaign-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayfield woman sings in grassroots Joe Biden campaign song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a50a5558-930a-4f19-92a6-838a8c2fc8f3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1700\" height=\"952\" alt=\"In a grassroots project, 69 singers from around the country, including Shannon Winkelman of Bayfield, sang \u201cCountin\u2019 on Joe,\u201d a campaign song for 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">In a grassroots project, 69 singers from around the country, including Shannon Winkelman of Bayfield, sang \u201cCountin\u2019 on Joe,\u201d a campaign song for 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Shannon Winkelman of Bayfield joined the grassroots \u201cCountin\u2019 on Joe\u201d virtual chorus for the fun of it and found a sense of countrywide unity along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Winkelman joined 68 other singers from 39 states to create the campaign song video, organized by Carol Dunitz of Michigan. The song, while not an official song for Biden\u2019s campaign, follows a string of political videos made by Dunitz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really good to sing with people together when we\u2019re so far apart,\u201d Winkelman said. \u201cI hope that the country can come together as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7EcPLhryiV8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In July, Dunitz set out to assemble a virtual chorus of singers to produce the video. Each person would listen to an audio recording of the song, then film themselves singing over it. Winkelman, who sings in the Durango barbershop group, A Woman\u2019s Prerogative, thought it was a fun way to show support for Biden\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was a really fun thing to do, especially with COVID and everything,\u201d Winkelman said. \u201cIt was nice that I got to sing with 60 people I didn\u2019t even know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The melody for \u201cCountin\u2019 On Joe\u201d comes from an old Irish folk tune, which was also used for a campaign song for Abraham Lincoln, Dunitz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI generally write my own music, but the appeal of a melody that had previously been used with success in the political arena was too much to resist,\u201d she said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The song hits on political topics, like a \u201ccracking\u201d democracy and Biden\u2019s experience, and lines like, \u201cA president needs to have morals to harvest the seeds that he\u2019ll sew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dunitz has also created political parodies, such as \u201cThings Now Have Gone to Hades,\u201d which criticizes the Trump administration to the tune of \u201cWe Didn\u2019t Start the Fire,\u201d by singer Billy Joel.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:smullane@durangoherald.com\">smullane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iVU4BA4WQ94\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>features 60-plus singers from around the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1167],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-exclude-homepage-video"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51940"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}