Each year, thousands of high school students from across the state of Kentucky audition for the renowned Kentucky All-State Choir Conference. About 500 hopeful students are usually selected to join.
The singers always put on one final performance to mark the end of the three-day conference, but it’s another tradition that has taken the internet by storm.
Every night of the conference at around 11 p.m., students from various high schools gather onto the hotel balconies to sing The National Anthem. They pack into nearly 20 levels as their booming voices fill the hotel lobby — dazzling the guests and passers-by who come specifically to listen.
The performance you’re about to hear took place at the Louisville, Kentucky Hyatt in February 2013. The hotel’s incredible acoustics make it the perfect setting for the singers’ haunting rendition of our country’s anthem. They may be teenagers, but it’s pretty clear through their pronunciation and sheer talent that these kids really deserve to be in their state’s official choir.
Garrett Mager was staying at the hotel when he heard some strange sounds outside his room. “I was sleeping in my room and then all of sudden I’m woken up by this racket and a bunch of kids,” he told Courier Journal. “I went outside on the balcony and asked them what they were doing and they said they were getting ready to sing the national anthem. So I watched and it was incredible.”
Source : https://www.littlethings.com/choir-students-hotel-balcony/