Women’s choir sings at Brooklyn federal courthouse despite Boston bombings
After she heard about the bombings in Boston last week, the Willow Interfaith Women’s Choir’s director Farah Chandu said the group never had second thoughts about performing in the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse because, as they say, the show must go on.
So with just a slight bit of anxiety, the women’s choir performed three songs during the courthouse’s naturalization ceremony to commemorate New York City Immigration Heritage Week on Friday morning as scheduled. It proceeded to serenade the 272 freshly sworn in American citizens as they left the building onto the streets they had previously only known as foreigners.
“What happened in Boston was so tragic and emotional and I think it hit hard in New York because 9/11 is still so fresh in our minds,”Chandu said. “We didn’t give much thought to not performing because there is nothing more beautiful and healing than music and we felt like it was needed now as much as ever.”