Toward the end of this gathering, the singers delivered their version of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean".
It is also why a gathering of singers performing his work feels like a colloquy of intellectuals letting their hair down.
"VOCAbuLarieS" is a madly elaborate virtual gathering of singers from all over the world: some 1,400 vocal tracks layered and edited into a chameleonic chorus that alludes to Western and non-Western traditions, sings in more than a dozen languages and still swings most of the time.
The documentary watches as the tight-knit gathering of singers goes from finding enrichment and each other onstage to facing the looming closure of Café 322.
But when I watch the gathering of singers on my computer screen, and then peek out the window and see my charges-from-afar make their careful way to and from the park, I feel as if the stakes are even higher.
Old Bahian matriarchs, like the famed healer Tia Ciata, hosted huge musical gatherings, where singers and songwriters experimented with new forms - never imagining that the sound to emerge would one day become a great legacy of Brazilian music.
During one gathering, a singer of jihadi songs named top political and security officers on a hit list.
Choir! is exactly what its name sounds like: a gathering of enthusiastic singers.
It's not everyday that one gets to witness a spontaneous gathering of artists, singers, musicians, and dancers performing a perfectly rehearsed mass performance piece.
Channeling this collective outrage, energy, and demand for change, four ambitious organizers came together to plan a gathering of folk singers, world leaders, activists, and thousands of fired-up youth demanding change.
