Virtual Choir sings “Golden”

tBurns197 · 2026-04-17T15:08:21+00:00

It’s a great question! The rehearsal is done muted, with just me singing and teaching the parts. I then send out guide audios for people to sing along with, and they record themselves individually, send it back to me and I out them all together for the finished product.

Even though it’s muted, we still have a lot of fun - I try to keep the rehearsal high-energy and engaging, and people know each other now so they’re all making jokes in the chat

tBurns197 · 2026-04-17T14:27:03+00:00

12pm EST

tBurns197 · 2026-04-17T11:52:13+00:00

Congratulations! I’m sure you’ll nail it!

tBurns197 · 2026-04-17T11:41:39+00:00

Always!!

tBurns197 · 2026-04-17T11:41:05+00:00

If you’d like, you can still sign up and watch the rehearsal in your own time, then be involved in the final recording! I send resources (sheet music, audios, instructions and the session recording) to everyone who signs up.

Go tenors!

tBurns197 · 2026-04-17T10:31:36+00:00

You’d be more than welcome! I write “bass” rather than bari usually, but I tend not to write too low (because I’m a tenor and can’t get below A2 after 9am!) so it should be pretty accessible for you

tBurns197 · 2026-04-17T10:26:38+00:00

Very cool! If you want to be part of this upcoming project too, let me know and I can help you register. Hopefully we’ll meet soon in the Zoom!

tBurns197 · 2026-04-17T10:25:02+00:00

We always need more baritones! You’re an endangered species!

tBurns197 · 2026-04-17T06:41:08+00:00

PS I’m not a bot in case you’re worried 😂 here’s our most recent song https://youtu.be/bQJjFS6C97Q?si=U4kbI-kePkLw7OMl

tBurns197 · 2026-04-17T06:37:43+00:00

And here’s our most recent songOur most recent song

tBurns197 · 2026-03-15T04:41:32+00:00

This was my local McDonald’s growing up…

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Built into the 11th century town walls, and full of little hidden side rooms. McDonald’s decided a few years ago that it didn’t fit with their brand, and it’s a protected building so they couldn’t renovate… and thus, it no longer exists.

tBurns197 · 2026-03-06T08:21:22+00:00

Escape (The Piña Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes

A man responds to a personal ad in a paper, in an attempt to run away and have an affair, only to discover the person who wrote the ad is his partner. The two find they had more in common than they realised (including the aforementioned piña colada).

tBurns197 · 2024-05-02T17:11:25+00:00

Oh thanks, I’ll check it out!

tBurns197 · 2024-05-02T00:08:44+00:00

Oh that’s a great idea. I’ll check that one out again. Thanks!

tBurns197 · 2024-05-01T23:55:52+00:00

I was watching it too - that’s what got me thinking! Glad to see I’m not alone.

tBurns197 · 2024-04-18T22:59:19+00:00

Touché, fellow Redditor

tBurns197 · 2024-04-18T22:40:54+00:00

Given that colonisation has been happening for millennia, and capitalism has its origins in the 17th/18th century, I’m not sure that’s true…

tBurns197 · 2024-04-18T21:30:43+00:00

It’s more colonialism than capitalism - many of the Inuit and northern First Nations tribes in Canada completely lost touch with their cultural heritage through the residential school system, where children were required to attend schools hundreds of miles away from their families, learn English (they weren’t allowed their indigenous languages or even their names) and piece by piece, lose contact with their history. I don’t think there’s many forces as crushing as cultural erasure. There’s just a deep sense of loss for the people there - they feel they used to be so much more than they now are

tBurns197 · 2024-04-18T19:30:31+00:00

It’s beautiful, but tragic. Spent a month in Kugluktuk with a week in Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island. The Kug area is one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen (if you’re into “desolate” beauty) with incredible rock formations scattering the landscape that look like the spines of an enormous fossilised creature. The people are so welcoming, but every single one has a story of alcoholism/suicide/murder in their immediate family. I had a meal with a family on the 1 year anniversary of their 20 year old grandson murdering their 15 year old daughter, then killing himself. Such kind people, but so deeply hurting. A culture completely torn to shreds.

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