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Sing-along Café Thursday, January 29th, 2026

What a lovely time we had! 

I love when we go off topic and search for songs that mean something to us at the moment. We did that a couple times today. Our theme was winter, and I have tons of songs on my list, but the world is a little distracting these days. 

We had a good strong start with Let it Go, from Frozen. We watched a video with lyrics instead of just having the song play with lyrics on Apple Music. It was fantastic. I love that scene in the movie. So powerful. The song alone is powerful, but the beautiful animation and the icy scenery, the dress, the movement, gestures, everything was excellent. I was reminded of the song Golden from K-Pop Demon Hunters, so we watched the official lyric video of that song too. 

While we did sing a few winter songs, and talked about the wonderful feeling of flying weightlessly that we get when we're skating (like River) or skiing, or swimming. That wonderful feeling of being free and apart from our worries and our everyday lives also comes when we sing in our choirs, or at church sometimes. Singing is uplifitng, and a little getaway, much cheaper than a cruise. 

We talked about protest songs, with visions of wintry Minnesota in our thoughts, those strong Americans singing their sadness and hope together in the steets. We went to Facebook to sing along with protesters. I'm looking forward to hearing Bruce Sprinsteen's Streets of Minneapolis.

I've started a playlist called Songs of Resistance, for protest and peace songs. We'll look at that on a future Thursday afternoon (or maybe a little each week if we feel the need). Next week is my birthday, so I'm going to have a list of some of my favourite songs to sing. After that, we'll need to do Love and/or Family and Home, because it will be just before Family Day weekend, which coincides with Valentine's Day. 

Here's a sample of what we did today:

  • Let it Go, from Frozen by Idina Menzel 
  • Golden, from KPop Demon Hunters by HUNTR/X 
  • Grow Old With Me by John Lennon
  • River by Sarah McLachlan
  • Still the One by Orleans
  • When I'm Sixty-Four by the Beatles 
  • Walmart by Jesse Welles
  • Join Ice by Jesse Welles 
  • Hold On by Heidi Wilson 
  • Imagine by John  Lennon 

If you select and copy one of the titles, you can paste it in the search bar of your browser, and you'll probably get to a recording of it somewhere.  

feel that positive wintry power

 

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