This video is the happiest thing I have watched or blogged in a very long time.
Pub Choir is a musical act founded in Brisbane, Australia, directed by Astrid Jorgensen. At each Pub Choir event, Jorgensen arranges a popular song and teaches it to the audience in three-part harmony, concluding with a performance that is filmed and shared on social media. There is no formal recurring membership; participants purchase tickets to attend each individual production, which is usually held at a licensed venue...Jorgensen created a form of musical notation incorporating colour-coded contoured text and comedic visual cues to teach at Pub Choir, so that musical literacy is not required for audience participation...
As Miss C notes at Neatorama -
At every Pub Choir show since 2022, one of the things they did was record all the participants singing at least one line from Queen's operatic anthem "Bohemian Rhapsody" for a project almost three years in the making. Now all those shows have been compiled into one video. The participants totaled more than a hundred thousand singers!
This video is a convincing reminder of the truth of the old axiom that "nobody cares if you don't know how to dance - just get up and dance," substituting "sing" for "dance."
Unity through music...always joyful.
ReplyDeleteTwo years ago, I went to a Barenaked Ladies concert, and they had Five for Fighting as one of the support acts. So Five for Fighting did their thing, and ended with the note that it was their job to get everyone in the mood for BL. They had decided to go out with a massive banger, and asked people to sing along.....
ReplyDeleteAnd then he starts playing Bohemian Rhapsody - which is not what anyone had expected - because this is not FfF music. And sacrilege. But surprisingly, they pulled the solo parts off pretty well, and let the audience do the chorus parts, and it was sooo much fun. Incredible. Almost more fun than seeing Queen (and Adam Lambert) doing it themselves. Ballsy move, but goal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bqmie89vbA
DeleteAdd another to the count - I was singing right along with them. Thanks for these moments of joy. I think we all need them.
ReplyDeleteWe Aussie know how to have a good time :)
ReplyDeleteVery nice
ReplyDeleteSo very cool!
ReplyDeleteMagnificent! Thanks!
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