Apartment complex sings 'I Still Call Australia Home' from balconies
Public Group active 3 years, 1 month agoAn apartment block joined together to perform a moving rendition of ‘I Still Call Australia Home’ as the country grapples to deal with the outbreak of . Residents throughout the complex in Waterloo, in Sydney’s inner city, stood on their balconies and joined in after an opera singer in the block started singing on Tuesday night.Homeowners shone torches from their phones and cheered before the whole complex chanted ‘Aussie!
Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!’. One of the residents who filmed the sing along said the man leading the group was a professional singer.’He did some warm ups yesterday and got a bit of a response, I guess that spurred him on to put on a performance tonight,’ he said on Reddit. ‘You couldn’t see it in the video but someone got a laser machine out, and plenty of people had their phones out with torches waving.
It was awesome to see us all come together… while practicing social distancing.’ RELATED ARTICLES
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The video was flooded with responses with some saying it brought them to tears as many Australians are forced to self-isolate amid the outbreak of the virus.’You got the tingles, I got the tears…’ someone commented.’Phenomenal!
got a bit emotional #straya,’ another wrote.’Amazing, i’m not even Australian and that gave me goosebumps,’ someone said.’That’s beautiful. Can you holler across we think he’s amazing? He deserves many beers when life is more normal again,’ another Reddit user said. Residents of the Waterloo apartment block stood on their balconies and sang along to ‘I Still Call Australia Home”Thank you for sharing.
First time this week I have cried happy-tears instead of stress-tears,’ one commented.It comes after residents in Italy played music and sang along to one another from their balconies after the country was placed into lockdown.Videos circulated online with Italians singing and sinfras.com dancing as music flowed through their apartment blocks.Similar moments have been captured in Lebanon, Spain and China.
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