For the longest time, joy felt like a ghost of the past, writes Nina Sharma. Then we took a collective deep breath, and began to sing.
Singers gathered for Gaia Music Collective's One Day Choir, singing Maggie Rogers'"Light On" at a park in Brooklyn, 2024.
Music directors Matt and Kenter seemed to realize that nearly all 400 of us kindred spirits had shown up alone. After a call-and-response vocal warmup, they focused on hot-wiring connections between strangers with a game of rose, thorn and bud . There were shouts about springtime and falling in love, whispers about anxiety, depression and mourning, and the universal bud that we had all showed up today, ready to sing.
Eventually our analysis go to the lead into the chorus, which repeats:“You should be so happy now!’” Eye roll. Might as well have told me to smile. Off we trekked, a giant band of merry music-makers, filling Bushwick’s sidewalks and turning heads in the otherwise quiet neighborhood. We filtered into a park and stood around the mosaic circle in its paved middle, kids on skateboards visibly annoyed that we were interrupting their tricks. Another call-and-response announced us to the crowd, and promised that we’d only sing one song, once.
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