Toronto-based choir-starters Choir! Choir! Choir! are at it again. Their past stunts include leading a 1,999-voice singalong to Prince's "When Doves Cry"; now, they've brought 1,500 singers to a decommissioned power station to sing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," with Cohen's fellow Canadian Rufus Wainwright on lead vocals.
The singalong was part of the Luminato Festival in Toronto last month. The venue has an interesting history: built in 1951, the Hearn Generating Station stopped operating in 1983. It was preserved initially with the thought that it might be reactivated for power generation in some capacity, but that hasn't come to pass and the plant's future is now uncertain; there have been proposals to turn it into a film studio or performance arena.
Watch video of the Choir! Choir! Choir! performance below, and you may conclude that you haven't really understood love until you've heard fifteen hundred Canadians singing about being tied to a kitchen chair.
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