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How about some good cheer and solidarity with your fellow Americans?

On Thursday evening, a sing-along took place in the Big Apple.

Peace of Heart Choir — which believes in “the healing power of music” — had posted to Facebook an invitation to New Yorkers to join them in song — a rousing quarantined rendition of “New York, New York.”

Here’s how they laid it out :

Join us to create a city-wide sing-along which will hopefully bring hundreds (dare we hope for thousands?) of New Yorkers to their windows, terraces, and more to sing “New York, New York” after the clapping and cheering of “Clap Because We Care” on Thursday, April 16. We’ll be coordinated with a Facebook Live feed from our New York Sings Along Facebook page. All you need to truly do is open a window and head to the Facebook page, And be prepared to clap, cheer, then sing.

At 6:45, before the Clap begins, we’ll launch a Facebook Live feed from the New York Sings Along page. We’ll use the feed to synchronize participation in the sing-along at the end of the cheer.

Two radio stations — WKCR 89.9 FM and WBAI 99.5 FM took part, broadcasting the song at 7:02 p.m.

Join "New York Sings Along" today 7pm ET visit https://t.co/4FLrQcrAyi or tune to radio #WKCR-FM NY 89.9 (89.9 FM) or #WBAI-FM (99.5 FM) for the first-ever, 100% social-distanced, city-wide sing-along #newyork #socialdistancing pic.twitter.com/FO8ac7I0lu

— Peace of Heart Choir (@peaceheartchoir) April 16, 2020

If you’re wondering which version they played, how dare you — it was, of course, Ol’ Blue Eyes:

Below the Facebook announcement, 6,400 people had marked themselves as “Interested,” and 7.1K “Went.”

The announcement got shared 2,300 times.

At the time of this writing, a few clips online had begun to surface. Here are a few participants:

When other New Yorkers did their sing along to “New York, New York” tonight, @yantidjani & I danced on the rooftop of our apart, in honour of NY’s amazing health workers

We are in this together & we need to stay strong together.

From an Indonesian 🇮🇩, with love#OneNewYork @NY1 pic.twitter.com/2zQthG2vqZ

— D.T. Djani (@DTDjani) April 16, 2020

https://twitter.com/JackiThrapp/status/1250937030764265472

In their advertisement for the event, Peace of Heart championed the power of music:

We believe in the healing power of music. We perform for free dozens of times each year in the city’s hospitals, nursing homes, shelters, and more. We’re hoping that singers from all across the city will join us for this new project. Just sing along out your open window when the track prompts you. Or sing from your, terrace, balcony, front yard or just in your living room. But do sing!

In a statement made to The Daily Wire, Peace of Heart said the event was the first-ever, 100% social-distanced, city-wide sing-along event” aimed to “to boost morale, honor New Yorkers on the front lines battling the COVID-19 pandemic, and allow more New Yorkers to experience the healing power of communal singing.”

As for the city’s front-line workers, if you weren’t aware, in late March, applause began across the metropolis at 7 p.m. nightly — residents clap, clang, applaud, and whistle to show their gratitude to doctors, nurses, and other medical staffers braving it amid the pandemic.

Now they can make a joyful noise in yet another way. Together. As a community, a city, a state, a nation.

In the FB Live video, a member of the Peace of Heart choir closed with this:

“That was amazing, everybody! … We hope you enjoyed singing with us today. Please join us next Thursday at 7, for another edition of New York Sings Along.”

What’s more American than this? Like most any family, we always come together in a crisis.

Good for those who took to their rooftops and windows and balconies to join one another — in praise of one of the greatest cities in the world, in the greatest country in the world.

-ALEX

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