“Flash Mobs” – the new holiday tradition!

Has it become the newest tradition for the holidays?  I think it has.

It’s the 21st century version of singing carols throughout the neighborhood.  Get a bunch of your friends, plan a secret rendezvous at a shopping mall or public park, and then all of a sudden – it’s a group performance.  A flash mob.  The crowd doesn’t expect it, but within moments everybody’s pulling out their iPhones and recording the moments.

So as my special gift to you, my beloved blog readers and friends, I present to you a collection of flash mob Christmas performances.

Let’s start with this one, from an organization called Journey of Faith as they performed in 2010 at a shopping mall in California.

And then I found this flash mob video of a drum-and-bagpipe orchestra invading a shopping mall at Christmastime 2012.

This year, Thomas Aquinas College students “flash mobbed” a series of Christmas carols at a shopping mall. Awesome stuff.

Also in 2014, the United States Air Force band showed up to perform “Greensleeves” at, of all places, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

And just for the hell of it, here’s a “flash mob” from August 2014, as they perform songs from “Les Miserables” at a shopping mall in Orlando.  Yeah I know it’s not a “holiday” performance, but for crying out loud, it’s Les Miz!

How would you like your Christmas service to turn into a flash mob that performs the show-stopping song from Disney’s most profitable motion picture ever?

Here’s a holiday flash mob in Lancaster, Pa. Thankfully, no scenes of Lebanon Levi or the rest of the Amish Mafia anywhere…

And don’t think you can get away from the flash mobs at the supermarket… ha ha ha ha ha…

Wow, I didn’t think I would have found a Hannukah “flash mob” in my searches – but oy gevalt, I found one!!

And I couldn’t complete this list until I added the awesome 2010 “flash mob” that performed the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah at Crossgates Mall in 2010.

Whether these are totally independently inspired bursts of musical creative energy, or carefully created orchestrated, initiated, radiated, satiated and in excelsis deo-iated, these are fun to watch and they will make you feel good this holiday season.

Season’s greetings, everyone.