Here's some sunshine on a rainy day.
Thanks to Candy ah este Belly, I came across Mr. B and his choir of 5th graders at New York's PS 22. They've made Suzanne Vega and Tori Amos cry. They've performed live with Crowded House. Private Universe! They recorded with Passion Pit. The kids singing in Little Secrets - that's them. Wow!
Mr. B is on a mission to keep music alive - and kicking and rocking - in US public schools threatened by budget cuts. Check out the kids' faces while they're singing. You just know none of them are going to get into any trouble. As Neil Finn of Crowded House says: it's the most hopeful sound on earth.
Here's their version of Fleetwood Mac's Landslide. Get the hankies out.
7 comments:
wow, chris martin, fleetwood mac, and the dixie chicks would be proud :) their head swaying can just get a little distracting...
Hi Giselle! I'm such a mushbag that even the head-swaying I find so endearing : ) heehee!
browsed through their other vids and loved eye of the tiger mostly because i remembered last year's Pups. :D how those 4-5yrolds memorized the lyrics is still beyond me. haha! :D pati kumukutikutitap!(which killed my fingers btw.)
thanks for this! :D
Like I said Mrs. B... bagay kayo ni Mr. B : ) Now I want to be a music teacher... just don't have the skills! Live the dream for me Mrs. B!!!
Man, I was tearing up the whole time. Now that's what you call a music class! And a music teacher! Wow, wow, wow!
So was I Barn. Tears! Bear and Chicha were riveted. I was so moved I actually wrote Mr. B to continue the fight for arts and humanities in schools blah blah.. Please watch them do Don't Stop Believing in Good Morning America... now I actually can appreciate Journey for heavens sake : D
Wow, tears here too. I'm speechless... These kids are absolutely amazing! Thanks so much for sharing! World needs more Mr B's!
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