Yes NYC!

Our friend Alexander is member of the Big Apple Chorus that sings barbershop harmony. Yesterday we used the last chance to see him sing at the Christmas Tree at the South Street Seaport. It was a fun event where great a Capella singing of well known songs was combined with show elements. Here are some more pictures from the Seaport.

After that we went to Unsilent Night, an event that the artist Phil Kline has been doing for the last 15 years. He made tapes with ambient sounds that include bells and Christmas-like sounds and asked people to bring boom boxes and come to Washington Square park. He distributed the tapes and asked all to press play at the same time. Several hundred people came and we walked between the quiet music to the East Village for an hour with the police closing of the crossings. It was a very nice atmosphere with the tracks fitting perfectly together and making one body of sound. It was also nice that people of every age went along and onlookers always asked what was going on.

On and with all this we missed Santacon - a day of people dressing up as Santas and going from one bar to the next and drinking. But here is a picture from flickr (by urbanblitz):