Aside from the occasional car ride or shower, I didn’t sing much. But on a whim, I joined a secular community choir without knowing how to read music or having any real expectation beyond wanting to try singing under the guise of anonymity.
People have been singing together since the beginning. Early humans employed coordinated rhythmic chants for hunting and socializing. Oral storytelling was often delivered through song, whether via Greek chorus, work songs, or sea shanties. But this age-old tradition of communal singing saw a steep decline over the last century as the advent of radio, television, and recordings encouraged a passive, often individual consumption of music. Aside from religious settings or concerts, many Americans only experience group singing briefly and sporadically. Maybe while singing “Happy Birthday.”
Why the choir camaraderie? One reason: singing together is a low-cost, inclusive activity. Plus, recent studies show that singing with others helps bolster social cohesion, as well as providing numerous physical benefits, from lowering blood pressure and cortisol levels to bolstering lung health. Group singing is on the rise, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.
“Thousands of people who may never have met are synchronizing their voices, movements, and attention around a shared identity. For a few minutes, they behave almost like a single coordinated social unit,” he says, explaining that by singing together, fans bolster their connection and collective identity. “People sing because they feel united, but the act of singing may make them feel more united.”
One of the co-founders of the Twin Cities Resistance Singers, Partridge’s musical path began when she was an elementary school teacher and noticed that if she had her classes sing, “It transformed them from a group of nervous kids into a community.”
When Renee Good was killed by ICE, that toolkit was put to use. “It was unclear how to organize big actions because people were really afraid,” Partridge says. “But a big group of people singing is so much safer. It helps people feel safe, and I’ve observed singing to be literally disarming.”
To be sure, group singing has long been a successful resistance tool, from protests against Apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa, to the marches for Civil Rights in Selma, Alabama. For instance, in 1989, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia helped overthrow the Soviet occupation after 2 million of their citizens joined hands to create an approximately 430-mile-long human chain spanning all three nations. They sang together for 15 minutes.
This is exactly why more people should consider joining a choir. The 2025 World Happiness Report ranked the United States with its lowest score ever, citing cost of living and political uncertainty. More than half of young Americans struggle with climate anxiety. A Pew Research survey found that 69% of Americans are dissatisfied with the state of their country.
But last month, I piled into an Elks Lodge with my beloved Choir League on a sweltering Denver evening as smoke blanketed the Rocky Mountains. I clutched a cold drink and laughed with people I’d gotten to know over the last year. Accompanied by a local band, we sang four songs from the 90s, just for fun.
Singing together is an embodied, experiential way of understanding that nothing must be endured alone. And in that moment, joyfully vulnerable with folks who were no longer strangers but favorite new friends, everything was okay.
Relief was not only in sight—it was in sound.
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