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23 Dec 2024

How Choir! Choir! Choir! grew out of a living room gathering into 2,500 strangers singing Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' in Montreal

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JL;DR SUMMARY Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman co-founded Choir! A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Leonard Cohen  Hallelujah  Community Singing  Toronto Music Scene  Communal Experience  Choir! Choir! Choir!  Nobu Adilman  Daveed Goldman  Spirituality Through Music  Vulnerability In Art 

Places mentioned

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"Title: How Choir! Choir! Choir! grew out of a living room gathering into 2,500 strangers singing Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' in Montreal"
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"And so then that sort of became this running joke with my friend Amanda, Bert and I, we would just come up with choir names, you know? So it's like you manifest these things. You kind of like, it's always a joke until it's reality, you know? Then it becomes something else. And then because I was talking about, a friend asked if we would put together a choir for a mutual friend's birthday as a surprise. And so that's when the sort of first seed came into it, where David was brought over by Amanda to play guitar. I didn't really know him that well. I'd never hung out with him outside of the restaurant that he managed Aunties and Uncles, which was a real landmark in the city for a long time in Toronto."
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
"I kind of only saw it as a one-night thing. Maybe we'd do it, you know, every once in a while. But it was purely kind of born out of my definitely born out of my Halifax days, which I spent, you know, nine years in and around the Maritimes, going to school and then working in television."
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Retrieved 2025-04-08 05:30:18 UTC
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