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songfest

[ sawng-fest, song- ]

noun

  1. an informal, often spontaneous gathering at which people sing folk songs, popular ballads, etc.
  2. an informal gathering at a studio, concert hall, or the like, in which people participate by singing along with the performers.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of songfest1

First recorded in 1915–20; song + fest
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Example Sentences

In June she returns to Seattle to sing in Leonard Bernstein’s rarely performed “Songfest” with the Seattle Symphony and Marin Alsop.

On Saturday, they had ridden a wave of popular support to win the annual songfest in the northern Italian city, giving their compatriots a much-needed morale boost after almost 12 weeks of war.

From Reuters

Kalush Orchestra this week was one of the entrants advancing to the finals of the wildly popular European annual songfest, whose winner will be decided on Saturday.

Dave Malloy’s “Octet,” an a cappella songfest, turned the exhilarating, exhausting, clarifying and degrading world of the internet into the kind of music previously reserved for reaching out to God.

In that, it resembles David Byrne’s “American Utopia,” the beautifully upbeat Broadway songfest about a fallen world and how we might yet survive it.

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