Feel Good Friday: The Cairo Choir

The video is colorful, the tune cheerful and the lyrics promise better times ahead.

“The day will surely come, near or far it will come,” the singers belt out in Arabic.

“A new dawn shall shine. Everyone shall rejoice. … That day shall be a feast. Hand in hand, we will return,” they sing, waving at each other from their on-screen tiles. In a corner of the screen, a sign language interpreter performs the song.

With their concerts on hiatus and their usual routine of rehearsals upended by the coronavirus, members of the Cairo Celebration Choir joined virtually with musicians and soloists to put out a hopeful message amid the virus gloom.

“The main comments we received: it’s joyful and it gives hope,” said choir founder and artistic director Nayer Nagui, who wrote the lyrics and had composed the music years ago for another project.

Read the full story at APNews.com, and watch the video above.