Thank you for sharing your reaction to this piece which is very special to so many of us Stay at Home Choir members. This choir was a godsend, a life-saver, during Lockdown and has, thankfully, continued. It was a privilege to be a small part of this beautiful song, and still touches my heart.
Thanks, for playing this, I'm one of the Stay at Home choir singers and I still tear up when I hear it. We recorded this project during Covid lock downs, so it was very satisfying to sing during the pandemic.
This was also my first project with Stay At Home Choir, in my little thumbnail I'm even wearing the black dress shirt that I was going to wear to my in-person choir concerts that were sadly cancelled. Glad to add a track to this and I'm glad other folks got to hear it. 🙂
Grew up with my Scottish Granny (Murray Clan/ Highlands) singing this song to us like a lullaby….she always said “No matter where we wind up…we shouldn’t forget where we came from..”🎶🏴 Caledonia =Scotland♥️✨ Thank you for sharing such a beautiful rendition✨
Thank you so much! Caledonia was my first piece with the Stay At Home Choir, so it has a very special place in my heart. Tears alway come and I can see I'm not the only one. Thank you for your kind and gentle words.
Dougie MacLean wrote the song in less than 10 minutes on a beach in Brittany, France, feeling homesick for Scotland. He said: “I was in my early 20s and had been busking around with some Irish guys. I was genuinely homesick. I’d always lived in Perthshire. I played it to the guys when I got back to the youth hostel where we were staying and that was the final straw - we all went home the next day."
Jeff, That was a beautiful rendition of the Dougie MacLean song. There is a video here on UA-cam of Dougie performing it himself. You should check it out. I actually saw Dougie in concert several years ago in Cincinnati. It was fantastic. He plays small venues and comes to the US some. I actually got to meet him and had a couple of beers with him. A really great guy. I think you would like his catalogue. I highly recommend it.
I remember doing this project with SAHC and it was such an emotional piece to sing, it still gets me! But it was also a joy to record this and be a tiny part of this stunning performance with #Voces8 . What an amazing reaction!! 👏 ❤️🙏
So you think it’s okay that this guy steals it and reproduces it in its entirety? Seems like theft to me. Fair use? What a laugh. Too many people trying to cash in on other people’s work.
@@Nicksonian I for one would never had heard of voces8 or the Stay at Home Choir, but for this guy's tribute to their marvelous perfomance of Dougie McLean's masterpice.
That’s only beautiful 🎶🫶🏻, the best instrument will always be the human voice. Thanks for your emotional reaction 😢, it’s a sign of strength. This music is so powerful, so well arranged, so pure. Best greetings from Westfalia in Germany
Great reaction to a lovely song. Born and bred in Scotland (that is Caledonia) this song is special to me and moves me. Written by the Scottish mostly folk artist Dougie Maclean. A lot of Scots think this should be the Scottish anthem and not Flower of Scotland. He also wrote / composed the Gael which I believe was bought by a Hollywood studio and was adapted and turned into the theme for the movie Last of the Mohicans. Both of these songs sound great also in their original form sung and played by Dougie
Thank you so much for giving Voces8 and Stay At Home Choir your attention. Your comments are so touching. I've been a member of SAHC for the past 4 years. Caledonia with Voces8 was my first project and I've done every project since.I, too, am blown away, as you are ,whenever I hear this video. I can't say enough wonderful words about our founders, Tori Longdon and Jamie Wright.
Beautiful stuff. I've witnessed Voces8 doing this live a few times. Always magnificent. For those who don't know, the arranger, Blake Morgan, is the bearded tenor who had a brief solo towards the end of the song.
8:13 Ok, there’re a few things I’d like to point out - there were like 4000+ people singing in this, if the video I saw about how Blake put all this together is anything to go by, and the head of the choir mentioned at one point there were like 4300-or-something folks involved, a decent handful of them gave their stories about this song and their roots with it, where they first heard/discovered it, even Dougie Maclean joined in the Zoom chat and explained how it came about, and the things he imagines while he’s playing it. It’s totally heartwarming and adds so much depth after hearing it, I can’t recommend it enough! Jeff, thank you for checking out this song. I had a bit of difficulty choosing which song(s) should be my first coming back to the Patreon, but I realised when I was previously on it that this was one of the songs I was super eager for you to see 🥹💖 Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! 💖✨🫂
"This is what we hear when we pass on"...that was my EXACT words to my wife this morning when I heard this song for the first time. It's just WOW. Mind blowingly beautiful.
I’m in this video :) such a fun project and absolutely magical to sing with Voces8. I’m currently trying to upload my part for Bach’s Komm Jesu Komm. My first SAHC project was the kings singers “and so it goes”.
What is there that the human voice can’t do? And then so many voices coming together… I also loved the way the choir image merged Into the nature one. Beautiful project 💛
Yes Jeff, Voces8 really are quite outstanding, I've been a fan for years. May I recommend their arrangement of Phillip Stopford's Lully.Lulla.Lullay and Paul Smith's Edo lullaby.
Thank you. Wonderful to hear someone react like I did and do. It just never fails to make me cry, the beauty just slays me. Night after night with my good quality headphones on. Thanks
Hi Jeff, I accidentally deleted my comment about how amazing it is that three of your patrons love Voces8, and how I wish all of it were under happier circumstances. I SO much appreciate finding this community of people who love great music irrespective of genre, and I am very grateful that you made this channel for all of us! (I need to start using my computer instead of my phone for writing comments. I’m sorry for the goof up, my friend!) Your friend, Brian
Thank you for showing this I am Scottish and was deeply moved by this .I can understand why the tempo was slower than normal because of the number of folk involved .
Song resonates with anyone whos had to leave for better or worse from any country in any situation.. nothing tugs on your heart like home..even when you had to set up home elsewhere to better yourself or whatever the case is.. home always is in the back of your mind.
10:37 Thanks for saying that man, I always find it hard to bite my tongue, but there’re certain situations where the music needs to speak for itself, and that wins over every time! 🥹💖
Another beautiful piece by Voces 8. When I consider the work it took to meld all the video and audio together, i am over whelmed! Blake Morgan arraigned this piece, as well as singing in it. Blake Morgan is the lead tenor as well as doing fantastic arraigning and writing for Voces 8. In this video he appears with long hair and a beard. He is from Michigan, and has been a member of Chanticleer. When it comes to Voces 8, at a rate of two requests a month, it will take a LOOONG time to have you hear them all. Blake Morgan's work will play a big part of the list.
Watching again because i needed to 😢 i don't wanna sound weird..i wish i could give you a hug for some reason..or even a manly high five..am in that mood.. this is a superb real reaction n it's why am talking gibberish tight now... I wanna hig everycnt right now n i don't really know why .i just do
Inarticulate clickbait theft. I hate channels like this that steal content from other channels and justify their theft with lame fair use claims by offering inarticulate commentary…all as clickbait to benefit off other people’s work. This kind of video should not be allowed. Now if you were someone like Rick Beato who always has something intelligent to offer, that would be different, but Rick doesn’t play entire pieces either.
One of the best love songs ever, and its not even written about a person, but a country! Makes me so proud to be scottish when i hear this
👏👏👏🫶
Im scottish and this bought tears to my eyes.❤
If anyone needs a definition of “music” this is it. I listen to this every day.
Thank you for sharing your reaction to this piece which is very special to so many of us Stay at Home Choir members. This choir was a godsend, a life-saver, during Lockdown and has, thankfully, continued. It was a privilege to be a small part of this beautiful song, and still touches my heart.
Thanks, for playing this, I'm one of the Stay at Home choir singers and I still tear up when I hear it. We recorded this project during Covid lock downs, so it was very satisfying to sing during the pandemic.
It was my first project with SAHC. I’ve been a huge VOCES8 fan ever since. 😀
This was also my first project with Stay At Home Choir, in my little thumbnail I'm even wearing the black dress shirt that I was going to wear to my in-person choir concerts that were sadly cancelled. Glad to add a track to this and I'm glad other folks got to hear it. 🙂
Grew up with my Scottish Granny (Murray Clan/ Highlands) singing this song to us like a lullaby….she always said “No matter where we wind up…we shouldn’t forget where we came from..”🎶🏴
Caledonia =Scotland♥️✨
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful rendition✨
It was a great honour to work with VOCES8 and Dougie MacLean at SAHC once again.
Thank you so much! Caledonia was my first piece with the Stay At Home Choir, so it has a very special place in my heart. Tears alway come and I can see I'm not the only one. Thank you for your kind and gentle words.
It’s such a beautiful piece 🥹
Dougie MacLean wrote the song in less than 10 minutes on a beach in Brittany, France, feeling homesick for Scotland.
He said: “I was in my early 20s and had been busking around with some Irish guys. I was genuinely homesick. I’d always lived in Perthshire. I played it to the guys when I got back to the youth hostel where we were staying and that was the final straw - we all went home the next day."
Jeff, That was a beautiful rendition of the Dougie MacLean song. There is a video here on UA-cam of Dougie performing it himself. You should check it out. I actually saw Dougie in concert several years ago in Cincinnati. It was fantastic. He plays small venues and comes to the US some. I actually got to meet him and had a couple of beers with him. A really great guy. I think you would like his catalogue. I highly recommend it.
I remember doing this project with SAHC and it was such an emotional piece to sing, it still gets me! But it was also a joy to record this and be a tiny part of this stunning performance with #Voces8 . What an amazing reaction!! 👏 ❤️🙏
So you think it’s okay that this guy steals it and reproduces it in its entirety? Seems like theft to me. Fair use? What a laugh. Too many people trying to cash in on other people’s work.
@@Nicksonian I for one would never had heard of voces8 or the Stay at Home Choir, but for this guy's tribute to their marvelous perfomance of Dougie McLean's masterpice.
That’s only beautiful 🎶🫶🏻, the best instrument will always be the human voice. Thanks for your emotional reaction 😢, it’s a sign of strength. This music is so powerful, so well arranged, so pure.
Best greetings from Westfalia in Germany
Thanks Olaf!
Great reaction to a lovely song. Born and bred in Scotland (that is Caledonia) this song is special to me and moves me. Written by the Scottish mostly folk artist Dougie Maclean. A lot of Scots think this should be the Scottish anthem and not Flower of Scotland. He also wrote / composed the Gael which I believe was bought by a Hollywood studio and was adapted and turned into the theme for the movie Last of the Mohicans. Both of these songs sound great also in their original form sung and played by Dougie
Absolutely gets into the soul. Thank you so much. The sound engineering was delicate yet definitive. Soft tears remain in my eyes.
Thank you so much for giving Voces8 and Stay At Home Choir your attention. Your comments are so touching. I've been a member of SAHC for the past 4 years. Caledonia with Voces8 was my first project and I've done every project since.I, too, am blown away, as you are ,whenever I hear this video. I can't say enough wonderful words about our founders, Tori Longdon and Jamie Wright.
This is the first video I've seen of someone reacting to SAHC, my mu is apart of the choir and this is one of her favourite pieces they've done.
Thanks Jeff and thank you Matthew. That was beautiful and emotional. ❤❤❤
Thank you for being here! 🥹💖
So touching indeed. The Celtic vocal bends are so heart tugging
Beautiful stuff. I've witnessed Voces8 doing this live a few times. Always magnificent. For those who don't know, the arranger, Blake Morgan, is the bearded tenor who had a brief solo towards the end of the song.
8:13 Ok, there’re a few things I’d like to point out - there were like 4000+ people singing in this, if the video I saw about how Blake put all this together is anything to go by, and the head of the choir mentioned at one point there were like 4300-or-something folks involved, a decent handful of them gave their stories about this song and their roots with it, where they first heard/discovered it, even Dougie Maclean joined in the Zoom chat and explained how it came about, and the things he imagines while he’s playing it. It’s totally heartwarming and adds so much depth after hearing it, I can’t recommend it enough!
Jeff, thank you for checking out this song. I had a bit of difficulty choosing which song(s) should be my first coming back to the Patreon, but I realised when I was previously on it that this was one of the songs I was super eager for you to see 🥹💖 Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! 💖✨🫂
Lovely said Matthew
@@peterkoeppl1186 Thank you! 🙏🏻
I as the same ….. when I was singing with it in the Stay At Home Choir 8-)
"This is what we hear when we pass on"...that was my EXACT words to my wife this morning when I heard this song for the first time. It's just WOW. Mind blowingly beautiful.
👏👏👏
That is Johnnie, the BASS singer doing the opening intro.
I’m in this video :) such a fun project and absolutely magical to sing with Voces8. I’m currently trying to upload my part for Bach’s Komm Jesu Komm. My first SAHC project was the kings singers “and so it goes”.
Awesome ❤️ I loved this one and hope we will do more of these collaborations !
What is there that the human voice can’t do?
And then so many voices coming together…
I also loved the way the choir image merged Into the nature one.
Beautiful project 💛
Yes Jeff, Voces8 really are quite outstanding, I've been a fan for years. May I recommend their arrangement of Phillip Stopford's Lully.Lulla.Lullay and Paul Smith's Edo lullaby.
May the Lord be watching over you Steve whether on this limited dimension or beyond.
Thanks, Jeff. Luscious harmonies. ❤
Thank you. Wonderful to hear someone react like I did and do. It just never fails to make me cry, the beauty just slays me. Night after night with my good quality headphones on. Thanks
Hi Jeff,
I accidentally deleted my comment about how amazing it is that three of your patrons love Voces8, and how I wish all of it were under happier circumstances. I SO much appreciate finding this community of people who love great music irrespective of genre, and I am very grateful that you made this channel for all of us! (I need to start using my computer instead of my phone for writing comments. I’m sorry for the goof up, my friend!)
Your friend,
Brian
Thanks for reposting!
I love this love my gorgeous caladonia (scotland)
Thank you for showing this I am Scottish and was deeply moved by this .I can understand why the tempo was slower than normal because of the number of folk involved .
Song resonates with anyone whos had to leave for better or worse from any country in any situation.. nothing tugs on your heart like home..even when you had to set up home elsewhere to better yourself or whatever the case is.. home always is in the back of your mind.
Beautiful. Thank you.🙂
10:37 Thanks for saying that man, I always find it hard to bite my tongue, but there’re certain situations where the music needs to speak for itself, and that wins over every time! 🥹💖
🥺🥹💝💖🫂🫂
Beautiful! I sang tenor on this, and feel very emotional watching / hearing this again. Thanks for sharing 🙏❤
👏👏👏🫶
Thanks Matt
Another beautiful piece by Voces 8. When I consider the work it took to meld all the video and audio together, i am over whelmed! Blake Morgan arraigned this piece, as well as singing in it. Blake Morgan is the lead tenor as well as doing fantastic arraigning and writing for Voces 8. In this video he appears with long hair and a beard. He is from Michigan, and has been a member of Chanticleer. When it comes to Voces 8, at a rate of two requests a month, it will take a LOOONG time to have you hear them all. Blake Morgan's work will play a big part of the list.
Thank you for the background info . I enjoy learning about the creative process about as much as the creation itself.
Makes me want to go home to Scotland everytime I here this my love for my country will burn in me till my last breath so proud to be a jock
Third listening ....thank you Matthew. Sharing this like crazy
Can’t stop listening to it, this song’s a healer! 🥹💖 Glad you’re enjoying it!!
Matthew, you outdid yourself on this one
@@peterkoeppl1186 this is hard to top hahaha!! 🙈
@wilksy2008 I don't think Lise replied yet...she is always good for emoji responses
@@peterkoeppl1186 She’s not called “emoji queen” for no reason haha!! 💖😂🤩✨🙏🏻🎉
Ooooh, ‘ello!! 👀
Jeff, in an attempt to honor questions about the Voces 8 singers, Blake Morgan joined Voces 8 in July 2016.
i will be laid to rest while this plays
Thanks!
Thank you Peter! 🫶
@StrateleStudios thank you for giving so much happiness to us Jeff.
Watching again because i needed to 😢 i don't wanna sound weird..i wish i could give you a hug for some reason..or even a manly high five..am in that mood.. this is a superb real reaction n it's why am talking gibberish tight now... I wanna hig everycnt right now n i don't really know why .i just do
Brother, your hugs and high fives are most welcome. Stay in this beautiful place as long as you can. 👏🥹🫶
@@StrateleStudios it's reactions like yours that keep me in that equilibrium... It's a beautiful eco sphere. Thank you x
@@martinmillar7137 totally understand…and thank you.
@@StrateleStudios thank you 🙏
You didn’t have to say word of comment Jeff. The song stands as a comment itself
I think Steve is smiling right now
I’d hope so! 😔💖
🥹
Impossible for me to find the words …. you guys 🥺🥺🥺🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂💝💝💝💖💖💖💗💓💜🙏🏼……..
Voces8 are incredible Lise!! 💖
@@wilksy2008 They sure are!! 💖 And so are you and Jeff! 💖💖🫂🫂
Beauty, Love & Light to Steve 🥺🥺🌈💫🌟✨🌈🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️💝💖💗💜💛🤍
@@lisedonsgrnning6518 wherever he is, still in this world, or not… Love ya brother! 😭💖
Love ya Lise
Just to think it's not a love for a person it's for the love of your country Caledonia (scotland)
Thank you for posting this, however, your comments, albeit brief, are distracting.
Inarticulate clickbait theft. I hate channels like this that steal content from other channels and justify their theft with lame fair use claims by offering inarticulate commentary…all as clickbait to benefit off other people’s work. This kind of video should not be allowed. Now if you were someone like Rick Beato who always has something intelligent to offer, that would be different, but Rick doesn’t play entire pieces either.
Awww tell it to your one subscriber, hahaha. No one cares what you have to say buddy.
Inverness . Scotland.. we love it.