Viral Sessions - Lark In The Morning / Out On The Ocean

VIRAL SESSIONS - Lark in the Morning / Out on the Ocean (pandemic online St. Patrick's Day Session)

VIRAL SESSIONS is a spontaneous initiative started by Jan Gałczewski (Beltaine, Sprinkle Blizzard Ariadne's Thread, Duo G2) and Jakub Goldfinch Szczygieł (Beltaine, Sprinkle Blizzard, Balsam, Balonique), Polish folky musicians, to bring their Irish Trad artists friends together, professional and amateur alike, to record home videos of playing music collaboratively.

In this case it is about two Irish jigs that form a mighty collaborative work for the virus-troubled St. Patrick's Day 2020! As it all started from a video call of Jan and Jakub, the concept of playing together online grew larger and larger by the hour. As most of us are now quarantined and out there in countries under pandemic lockdown, we figured we need some project to cheer people up and, most of all, bring us all together. To make it even more challenging, the idea arose in about 48 hours before St. Patrick's Day. The participants had about 24 hours (!!!) to make the videos, which were then edited and mixed into this mighty project.

We are blown away by the people's enthousiasm and input! This is terrific! Thank you so much from our hearts! Enjoy the togetherness! Next time we should make it even bigger, don't you think? ;)

Jan Gałczewski, Jakub Goldfinch, Ewelina Grygier, Katarzyna Sałapa, Adam Rorian Kryński, Anna Kopec, Martyna Golińska, Alexander Dmitriev, Łukasz Potoczny, Liz Jones, Krzysztof Rogulski, Adam Sznabel, Doro Habasińska, Olena Yeremenko, Michał Górka, Aneta Dortová, Michał Zajączkowski-de Mezer, Anton Korolev, Vanessa Medecin

Special thanks to Vanessa Medecin for extraordinary help and support!