Story via David Menconi, Down on Copperline, Orange County Arts Commission
Photo courtesy of Erin Olivia Media
Lauren Bromley Hodge, driving force behind PopUp Chorus for more than a decade now, calls herself its “founder, owner, organizer, program director, comrade and dog’s body” (the latter phrase being British slang for one who does menial labor). But as someone whose household she jokingly likens to “a bad-singing version of the Von Trapp family,” she’s perfectly representative of an egalitarian group where the point is to just show up and sing.
“I am my own test subject because I don’t have a good voice and my kids have told me as much,” Hodge says with a laugh. “But I love to sing, howling about in the shower and the car, and I’ve become much better and more confident with PopUp Chorus. So has my husband, who used to not even open his mouth. Now he does.”
Photo courtesy of Erin Olivia Media
PopUp Chorus events are come-one-come-all affairs in which a crowd of singers convene, rehearse, perform and record a couple of songs. The group’s videos then go out over social-media channels, and they’ve attracted favorable attention from many of their cover subjects.
In large part that’s because of Hodge, who has worked in a range of capacities across the music industry and uses her connections to get PopUp Chorus into prominent artists’ field of vision. Duran Duran, David Bowie and Zooey Deschanel are among those who have responded positively. Speaking of PopUp’s 2015 cover of his group’s “Birdhouse in Your Soul,” They Might Be Giants co-leader John Flansburgh said it “defines joy.”
“I’m not easily starstruck, but when I saw that David Bowie had posted something about our version of ‘Let’s Dance,’ I thought I was going to faint dead on the floor,” Hodge says. “My legs got wobbly.”
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