By John Faherty
CINCINNATI — Under an oppressive sun, a choir from China, the Shanghai Women Entrepeneurs Choir, was singing “The Rose,” sounding like an ethereal Bette Midler. Then singers representing the North Jersey Home School Association sang “Bonse Aba” a Zambian Christian worship song. All across Fountain Square, people chatted and smiled and ate Mexican food and ice cream.
There are really two World Choir Games. Inside music halls across Cincinnati, the competitions are formal and scripted and tense. But Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, from 11 to 1, at downtown’s Fountain Square, is something called the Global Village, where all are welcome, the music is free, and everybody is relaxed.
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