sing-a-long

Question

Does anyone have any suggestions for translating "sing-a-long?"

The context is that instead of having a music program performed by students this December at my school, we are going to host a multi-cultural holiday sing-a-long. I want to avoid using the words posada or Christmas caroling, because we are a public school and also a very diverse school. We are planning to sing songs in both Spanish and English, and also possibly include music from Hannukah, Kwaanzaa, and Diwali. And also include some songs that are just about spreading Peace and Love. We want total audience participation.

Thank you in advance for your suggestions. Also if you have suggestions of songs, music, ideas of how to explain holiday traditions in different countries, I would welcome them as well.

Answer 1

It depends of the idea that you want to express:

1) Cantando en grupo: If you only want to say that is people singing together.

2) Cantando alrededor del mundo (or something similar): If you want to show that you are going to sing songs from differents countries.

I have a free translation that maybe doesn´t respect the original english name, but in Spanish could mean the different languages of the songs:

Canciones de Babel or Cantando en Babel

It is a stupid name, but is deducted the language variety.

Thank you for your suggestions. - sagiia, Nov 21, 2014

Answer 2

A song about creating a better future that I expect many to able to sing along with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWf-eARnf6U

If your school consists of children under the age of, let's say, 7? Maybe they'd like this one at the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpTR1wF4M6k

Could you give us the age category so that we have something to work with?

Well, we are a k4 through 8th grade school, but it is for a family night event so it will include people of all ages. - sagiia, Nov 21, 2014

Could you give us the ages, though? I don't know what country you're from and which grade system they use there or if it's primary, secondary, something else entirely... - Suzanne_Romijnders, Nov 21, 2014

Answer 3

I think you can also say: cantar a coro (in unison, literally: like a choir)

you can also use the verb of this: http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/corear hope it helps!

Answer 4

Hi Saglia Here is something from Word Reference

word reference - sing-a-long