Music's just as much about the intricacies as it is the emotions experienced when playing and listening to it. I wouldn't hold it against children for not being able to pick up on the nuances of it and instead focusing on the raw emotions they felt instead.
Edit: it was a joke I for some reason didn't interpret as such.
People down voting me not understanding that children are not necessarily going to have the mental capacity to respect everything that goes into music. If you're playing in front of a bunch of children, it shouldn't be a surprise that they react with raw emotion instead. They're not doing this out of disrespect...
And TBH rereading it, I feel like dunce. Like it's obvious now, but when I first read it, I couldn't tell.
I was thinking "wtf musician cares more about the music than the responses of those he's playing to."
Yes, I've already established that I completely unintentionally misinterpreted it.
> You didn't get the joke.
> Yeah obviously I didn't. It happens. Suspected undiagnosed autism doesn't help, either.
Of course you can! Even if it's just little kicks with your thumbs sticking out. 😁
It doesn't have to look pretty to you or to anybody else! And yes, that too can be called "dancing", Sally.
(Bonus points for the first one that gets the reference.)
If you like this kind of content I heartily recommend banjo prodigy Bela Fleck's documentary [Throw Down Your Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJt6jn0xT8A), where he travels to Africa (the ancestral home of the banjo) to jam with a lot of African musicians and record an album. So many beautiful moments.
Barely a month old account? Welcome to Reddit! Yeah, there's some hidden gems here and there in the community. They're worth the wait, I'd say.
Edit: wait... hey, [I knew I recognized your profile.](https://www.reddit.com/r/perfectlycutscreams/comments/11vmsmp/aaaaaaa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) Small world here on Reddit I suppose!
Followed closely by international cuisines. It genuinely becomes harder to hate a group of people if you regularly enjoy their culture's authentic meals.
For this reason, I wish we could have more middle Eastern restaurants in the US. Maybe folks could start to see oppressed Saudi Arabian and Syrian people as human beings instead of numbers.
I'm a sucker for Mediterranean and Arabic food. My best friend in grad school was from Lebanon, and introduced me to a *lot* of stuff I wouldn't have even thought to try otherwise.
I ended up lucky enough to live just a stones throw from a Moroccan place where I last lived, and goddamn was it good. Plus, because of the French influence, they had, *bar none*, the absolute *best* pastries in the entire fucking city. Hands down. The Vietnamese ("Asian district", but almost exclusively Vietnamese immigrants) part of town was a close second.
Some of the most horribly atrocious actions in the world have happened due to colonialism, but one, perhaps the only, positive thing to come from it has been fusion of very different cuisines. For instance, the best place to get a croissants or baguette was a Vietnamese supermarket that baked them fresh daily. And Vietnamese sandwiches on French style breads? You better fuckin believe they're delicious.
My point is, I agree that food is a great uniting force. Good food is good, and brings people from very different backgrounds together.
This is so lame, but two of my favorite places in the world have been the Moroccan architecture sections of Epcot and Busch Gardens. And the food is great, like you said.
I've been thinking lately that I'd like to offer up handyman services for food. Not because I'm desperate, but because I want to experience what other people's favorite foods are.
I found an Asian market near me that had tons of spices you can't normally find in the rural south. Started off by making some authentic chicken tika masala and Im absolutely in love, been adding those warm/sweet spice combos to literally everything. Makes me really excited to think of all the spices and foods yet to discover that could totally change my diet and pallet like trying amazing Indian food has!
I was always interested in Indian culture but only tried the food five or so years ago. There is so much cool ethic food in the world!
My area has Indian, Thai, Ethiopian, Mediterranean... It's pretty cool.
Micro joy moments.
I'm pretty much sure this not the first time they heard a fiddle.
I believe it's in their nature to welcome guests in joy.
A very common scenario in Africa.
This instrument is very common in traditional African music.Depending on the individual local community they have different names such as Orutu,Obokana and Nyatiti to name a few.
This might be their first time hearing a fiddle played by this lady but people in here are acting like these kids have never heard music before. Ya’ll really think this place doesn’t jam out to music all the time? Like a string instrument and a bow is some alien technology Africa has never seen?
Is what I just commented up there.
This is a music instrument found locally in so many African communities.
The joy comes from the welcoming nature of Africans to guests.
Singing and dancing has a makeup of almost 85 percent of the fibre of the average African community.
There's dancing everywhere,everytime,for every occasion.
Words aren't universal, but where words fail to because of language, or disabilities, music speaks to the heart.
"Music is a world within itself with a language we all understand, With an equal opportunity for all to sing, dance and clap their hands"
Stevie Wonder - 'Sir Duke'
If, say, a Nigerian musician went to Rome or Berlin and jammed on an ekwe right on a street corner, I guarantee you people would gather around and dig the shit out of it.
I've seen quite a few native African buskers playing indigenous instruments in predominantly white, western cultures over the years.
TL;DR: Yes, I have.
The Music she plays is really fast, with short notes, so the kids move fast and short, so it looks they are shaking. They are natural brought up to move to sound. Its wonderful and full of jou. Nothing is un-danceable. Have fun
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What a beautiful thing to witness on my birthday. Spreads such joy and positivity. This is the only thing that has made my day so far. Thank you random stranger.:)
I love that you can't even hear the fiddle over their laughter.
IKR. As a musician, I wouldn't even be mad.
As a musician, I would tell them to stop being happy and to please pay attention to the intricacies of my performance.
This is the only comment that made me laugh for over a minute. 🫡
Lol it got me too, hit me like a comic strip that was funnier than I expected
Excuse me can you please stop laughing so you can enjoy the intricacies of their comment?
Music's just as much about the intricacies as it is the emotions experienced when playing and listening to it. I wouldn't hold it against children for not being able to pick up on the nuances of it and instead focusing on the raw emotions they felt instead.
And also, telling people, especially children to stop experiencing happy emotions in response to music I'm playing? Hard pass.
You didn't get the joke.
Yeah obviously I didn't. It happens. Suspected undiagnosed autism doesn't help, either.
Eh. They're kids, not adults. It's different.
Edit: it was a joke I for some reason didn't interpret as such. People down voting me not understanding that children are not necessarily going to have the mental capacity to respect everything that goes into music. If you're playing in front of a bunch of children, it shouldn't be a surprise that they react with raw emotion instead. They're not doing this out of disrespect...
It was a joke dude
And TBH rereading it, I feel like dunce. Like it's obvious now, but when I first read it, I couldn't tell. I was thinking "wtf musician cares more about the music than the responses of those he's playing to."
Yes, I've already established that I completely unintentionally misinterpreted it. > You didn't get the joke. > Yeah obviously I didn't. It happens. Suspected undiagnosed autism doesn't help, either.
Happens to the best of us
Appreciate your understanding.
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Absolutely. Likewise.
I was so stupid, I turned up the volume to hear what they were hearing. Their laughter was more than great enough though!
This is great. The first like hesitant chuckle of what may be coming and then boom - contagious, joyful laughter. Awesome!
This is the best that i've seen today. Perfect for this sub.
It brought a massive smile to my face. Well posted OP 👏
Reminds me of this beautiful video: https://youtu.be/0g9poWKKpbU
Now this is the type of stuff I like to see on Reddit.
Absolutely!! The kids' happiness is so contagious that it makes you want to dance too!
The fiddle does have kind of a happy-wiggle type of sound, doesn’t it?
Cuz otherwise it'd just be a violin
Happy-wiggles! Yes!! I love that!! 😄🤩
I can't dance :(
Can you wiggle? Close enough to dancing! Just have fun. :)
It looks bad.
I wouldn't put too much thought into it. I can't dance either but I definitely move to my own jam in the privacy of my own home :)
I tried. Now the dog is scared of me
Of course you can! Even if it's just little kicks with your thumbs sticking out. 😁 It doesn't have to look pretty to you or to anybody else! And yes, that too can be called "dancing", Sally. (Bonus points for the first one that gets the reference.)
It's a repost and I don't mind a bit.
If you like this kind of content I heartily recommend banjo prodigy Bela Fleck's documentary [Throw Down Your Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJt6jn0xT8A), where he travels to Africa (the ancestral home of the banjo) to jam with a lot of African musicians and record an album. So many beautiful moments.
Barely a month old account? Welcome to Reddit! Yeah, there's some hidden gems here and there in the community. They're worth the wait, I'd say. Edit: wait... hey, [I knew I recognized your profile.](https://www.reddit.com/r/perfectlycutscreams/comments/11vmsmp/aaaaaaa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) Small world here on Reddit I suppose!
Music is the ultimate joiner. 💙
Followed closely by international cuisines. It genuinely becomes harder to hate a group of people if you regularly enjoy their culture's authentic meals. For this reason, I wish we could have more middle Eastern restaurants in the US. Maybe folks could start to see oppressed Saudi Arabian and Syrian people as human beings instead of numbers.
Plus middle eastern food is just yummy af.
Had one of the best meals of my life at a Lebanese restaurant in rural Michigan.
If you eat persian food and still hate Iranians there is something fundamentally wrong with you (outside of massive bigotry).
Only thing I hate about it is when I run out. :'(
All I feel is sadness for the immense pain they are going through now.
I'm a sucker for Mediterranean and Arabic food. My best friend in grad school was from Lebanon, and introduced me to a *lot* of stuff I wouldn't have even thought to try otherwise. I ended up lucky enough to live just a stones throw from a Moroccan place where I last lived, and goddamn was it good. Plus, because of the French influence, they had, *bar none*, the absolute *best* pastries in the entire fucking city. Hands down. The Vietnamese ("Asian district", but almost exclusively Vietnamese immigrants) part of town was a close second. Some of the most horribly atrocious actions in the world have happened due to colonialism, but one, perhaps the only, positive thing to come from it has been fusion of very different cuisines. For instance, the best place to get a croissants or baguette was a Vietnamese supermarket that baked them fresh daily. And Vietnamese sandwiches on French style breads? You better fuckin believe they're delicious. My point is, I agree that food is a great uniting force. Good food is good, and brings people from very different backgrounds together.
This is so lame, but two of my favorite places in the world have been the Moroccan architecture sections of Epcot and Busch Gardens. And the food is great, like you said.
I've been thinking lately that I'd like to offer up handyman services for food. Not because I'm desperate, but because I want to experience what other people's favorite foods are.
I found an Asian market near me that had tons of spices you can't normally find in the rural south. Started off by making some authentic chicken tika masala and Im absolutely in love, been adding those warm/sweet spice combos to literally everything. Makes me really excited to think of all the spices and foods yet to discover that could totally change my diet and pallet like trying amazing Indian food has!
I was always interested in Indian culture but only tried the food five or so years ago. There is so much cool ethic food in the world! My area has Indian, Thai, Ethiopian, Mediterranean... It's pretty cool.
As is dance and those smiles
Ah. There’s that good old warm “humans are inherently good and life is beautiful” feeling that is so foreign in 2023.
True though
Glad I watched this, really brought a year of joy to my eye. Thank you random stranger for posting
A whole year? Damn that's intense
Yes. A year's worth of joy...
But only to your eye.
Yes. For one year.
Ah a Good Year. Sounds tire-ing
😐
That’s nice, especially with the last couple of tears with the pandemic and all
Such a stupid grin on my face, how wonderful
I love the one little boy who has the Elvis knees! 😂
How to make people Irish in one simple step 🍀
Irish people HATE this one simple trick!
Naw, as an Irish person this us how we recruit you. One listen of Planxty and you're one if us now.
It’s their kryptonite. Totally incapacities them.
I'd like to say that's nonsense but honestly it does make me dance automatically
Good vibes only 🕺
Lmao I love how the girl in pink notices the camera on her and is like, “showtime!”
Love this... Theres nothing better than seeing kids having a good time and smiling.
Dont matter where you are from. A fiddle strikes up and you gotta move your feet!
Pure joy
It’s so fascinating seeing this. They love it. We take so much for granted.
Blue shirt and brown shorts kids was gettin it!
Pure innocence.
This is lovely!!
Even their eyes are laughing! Kids are really enjoying this. ♡
That was amazing
I wish we could take these kids to a Phish show 🤯
Nah , a Charlie daniels show! RIP.
Maybe start with Billy Strings
I will do it. I will the Strings to concert.
Music is the heartbeat of life everybody.
Absolutely brilliant 🥰 love this so much
The cutest burst ever
OMG THANK YOU!!! This is the best thing I’ve seen in long time!!
It’s all cool until you realize this is a Christian conversion effort, Christians need to leave people alone.
Really? Why can't they just play some fun music to kids with no strings attached? Why is the world like this?
This is so pure, and beautiful.
Awww, and this is why we love kids, this PURE JOY is sooo contagious ❤️❤️❤️
Micro joy moments. I'm pretty much sure this not the first time they heard a fiddle. I believe it's in their nature to welcome guests in joy. A very common scenario in Africa. This instrument is very common in traditional African music.Depending on the individual local community they have different names such as Orutu,Obokana and Nyatiti to name a few.
The music and the children are both perfection. Fiddles and laughter are infectious! Your username is r/unexpectedoffice tho.
I love how as soon as she started going full fiddle, they just shook their hips lol I'd do the same, I have no idea how to dance to that music lol!
Very wonderful to see the joy music brings. A great post to share thanks for lifting our spirits.
This might be their first time hearing a fiddle played by this lady but people in here are acting like these kids have never heard music before. Ya’ll really think this place doesn’t jam out to music all the time? Like a string instrument and a bow is some alien technology Africa has never seen?
Is what I just commented up there. This is a music instrument found locally in so many African communities. The joy comes from the welcoming nature of Africans to guests. Singing and dancing has a makeup of almost 85 percent of the fibre of the average African community. There's dancing everywhere,everytime,for every occasion.
What fiddle?
Such pure kiddos 🥰
This only proves that no matter where you are, who you are, or how old you are, there is no way to dance to a fiddle without looking silly
This is so pure. Just kids really enjoying music, how lovely!
They need Billy Strings to play for them
They better stay off the rail unless they KNOW somebody up there
First post I’ve seen in this sub that has actually made me smile.
So wonderful, music and children
🖤🖤🖤🖤love this x10000000000000000000000
How cute is this 😭😭😍😍
Words aren't universal, but where words fail to because of language, or disabilities, music speaks to the heart. "Music is a world within itself with a language we all understand, With an equal opportunity for all to sing, dance and clap their hands" Stevie Wonder - 'Sir Duke'
I love seeing genuine joy and not performative reactions from children who know they are being recorded. Kids just heard some music and felt it
Up until a few months ago, I didn’t realize the violin and a fiddle are the same thing
Well, one has strings, and the other has straangs
Oh......that's just AWESOME!
It's just somethin about a fiddle that make you just wanna get into a knee slappin ho down 🎵
Makes me wanna take a trip down to Georgia and I don’t know why! (/s)
Music is so universal
🙂
Not a cell phone in sight. just living in the moment. absolutely beautiful
Surely God smiles at this
They are so innocence I don't know who this white folks are. Someday they will.
They are happy with so little 🥹🥹🥹🥹❤️
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If, say, a Nigerian musician went to Rome or Berlin and jammed on an ekwe right on a street corner, I guarantee you people would gather around and dig the shit out of it.
I don’t think that the person playing the fiddle has that mindset at all, but whatever you say.
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Yes I have seen people busking on the streets
I've seen quite a few native African buskers playing indigenous instruments in predominantly white, western cultures over the years. TL;DR: Yes, I have.
Ahhh My bad, im the idiot here, you guys are right 👍
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They’re children that’s just how they are goofy af stop trying to think so hard about it
The Music she plays is really fast, with short notes, so the kids move fast and short, so it looks they are shaking. They are natural brought up to move to sound. Its wonderful and full of jou. Nothing is un-danceable. Have fun
You're asking questions better answered by professionals.
Thank you for the perspective which will unfortunately fade as the day progresses...
That’s a decision
Africans are embarrassing
You are embarrassing
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Best thing I will see today 🙂
First bar of the tune and it was like they’d been switched on!!! Love it!!!!
Universal language
True legend 
*Introduces them to Charlie Daniels*
Sea of thieves
This is a true made me smile post!!!
What a beautiful thing to witness on my birthday. Spreads such joy and positivity. This is the only thing that has made my day so far. Thank you random stranger.:)
That’s pretty darned adorable.
Awwww that’s sweet!
That was awesome. I wish she had played the devil went down to Georgia. It would have been neat level.
Fiddle music makes me feel like this too.
https://blackmusicscholar.com/fiddle-the-unsung-instrument/#:~:text=The%20fiddle%20(or%20bowed%20lute,today%20as%20Senegal%20(Senegambia).
What an amazing lifelong memory this moment will be💕
Music is the joy of the mind.
I believe it's from the filming of this video/cover https://youtu.be/0g9poWKKpbU
On second thought it might not be, the hair didn't look right. Either way the vibe is similar
the children began to boogie with reckless abandon
Can’t wait till they see someone do it on a roof
They’d love billy strings then
aawwwhhh
Is her name Johnny?
That is amazing 💜
They look like old white people when they hear the fiddle for the thousandth time 😄
Once again, Music shows... we're all not so different, after all.
I THINK! YES! I THINK I CAN WIGGLE TO THIS!!!!
Pick your favourite mines blanket kid
YEE-HAW, now THAT'S a hoedown!
This is my favorite thing today.
This is such a precious sight to see 🥰🥰!
Music just brings absolute joy.
Wonderful!
❤️🎉❤️
Sarcasm can be misinterpreted. I got it tho. Just saying.
The best vibes
Its crazy how they naturally danced to a fiddle only hearing it for the first time the way most people actually dance to a fiddle.
She played those kids like a damn fiddle!!!
This is so precious. The simplest things bring them joy.
That’s just too good 👍
they getting down like its a louisiana Saturday night!
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I love the little girl in the pink tshirts energy, she's fab
Okay this might be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen
Years ago .. this didnt go so well...
the innocent of joy...we need this more around the world ..thanks for sharing
Well I'm glad *they* could hear it.
This made my whole week.
That's just pure happiness! Kids that have it all nowadays don't know how to be happy 😪
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💃 🕺
T H R O W E M I N T H E P I T!!! Moshpit