In an earlier episode, the director of a women’s choir in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, wondered what to call it when her group gathers to sing together for the sheer joy of it. Listeners responded with many suggestions, including songfest, enchanted evening, choral fellowship, song circle, singamajig, and sing-along. A listener in Toronto, Canada, suggests an even simpler solution: Just call it a sing, as in we had a good sing or I’m looking forward to next week’s sing. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “What Shall We Call Joyful Singing Together?”
Grant, you remember that call we had from Jane in Cape Cod, Massachusetts?
She’s the one who directs a women’s choir called Common Voices, and she was looking for a word for what their group does when they gather to sing just for the joy of singing and community rather than working toward a rehearsal.
Right.
So so it was nothing official.
They just came together.
Wasn’t a performance.
Wasn’t practice.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean it’s funny, I I always say this, but we get so much response.
We get so much response to questions like this.
We had a lot of good ideas.
We had a ton of them.
People really stepped up to help.
And it’s a long list of suggestions that they offered.
Among them were Songfest, Enchanted Evening, Session, Choral Fellowship, Song Circle, like a knitting circle, or a sing along and actually Jane wrote us after that with a list of words that she’s thought about since she talked with us and that list includes the words singamajig and synchronize.
Oh nice.
Those actually sound like the names of a cappella groups though.
They kinda do.
They’re always very punny, aren’t they?
Singamajig.
But you know, there’s one other one that we got from Sandy Jones.
She lives in Toronto, Canada, and she noted that in the same way we say I had a good think about something.
Maybe the choir could just call their time together a sing, as in I’m looking forward to next week’s sing, and I really like that.
Oh, I particularly like it if you put the adjective good in front of it.
Let’s have a good sing.
We had a good single.
Nice.
We’ve got a good sing scheduled for next week.
I like that.
Well if you want to have a good chat with us you can call or text anytime.
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