community singing

British  

noun

1. singing, esp of hymns, by a large gathering of people

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Example Sentences

Carter — whose roots were in participatory community singing and who produced an open-air sing at the nascent Bowl in 1920 that attracted a crowd of 2,000 — believed in the amphitheater as a place where tickets could cost as little as a quarter and that would be welcoming enough to make great art available to and representative of all.

From Los Angeles Times

Singalong event in support of the Seattle Labor Chorus with musical guests leading a community singing of songs of labor, peace and social justice at 5 p.m.

From Seattle Times

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the city was “sandwiched” between two realities: the thousands seen yesterday in a peaceful rally with members of the Native American community, singing and dancing in protest, and the people who woke up Sunday morning and came out of their homes to help clean up businesses destroyed by rioting.

From Fox News

In 1923, prominent Los Angeles music booster Artie Mason Carter, known as the “mother of the Hollywood Bowl,” made a grand declaration on the city’s future: “It is impossible to sing and frown, and there is no better way of molding this city, with its continuous influx of strangers, into one solid mass of fine citizenship, than through community singing.”

From Los Angeles Times

SAT Community singing with house band, silent auction, homemade treats, nonalcoholic beverages, 7 p.m.

From Seattle Times