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Where amateurs discover that earnestness covers more octaves than talent ever could.
means A casual gathering where a group of people sing songs together, usually for the sheer joy of it rather than for any audience.
from A transparent compound of "song" and "-fest," the latter borrowed from German "Fest" meaning a festival or celebration. German handed English a whole family of these jolly "-fest" words in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — gabfest, slugfest, songfest — each promising an abundance, even an excess, of whatever sits in front of it. So a songfest is, quite literally, a festival of song.
- campus staple
- Greek-life competitions pour months into one performance
- fest fever
- German -fest suffix turns anything into an event
- choral roots
- Originally just informal community group singing
world choir games — international choral competition held every 2 years in different cities, with thousands of singers competing
eurovision song contest — annual televised competition since 1956 featuring singers from 40+ countries performing original or national songs