He joined in singing "Song for the Mira," a Cape Breton folk song arranged by a boychoir alumnus, Stuart Calvert.
Female singers, who are almost as important as the puppeteer, respond to requests and gifts of money by singing song after song and virtually stopping the play.
Ms. Zollar's "Hand Singing Song" has sassy women strutting on the balls of their bare feet and men in berets giving the black power salute.
In "Hands Singing Song," an excerpt from "Give Your Hands to Struggle" (1998), Marjani Forté paid sculptural tribute as a list of recorded names reverberated in the theater: Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass.
Males generally are spotted singing from March until the mid-summer, excluding instances of singing song snatches periodically to balance the year.
Think of all the self-made stars on Youtube, who started off as total unknowns posting videos of themselves singing song covers or baking weird foods, and now have millions of followers.
