Word: songfests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shedding Vatican rhetoric, he spoke to the people in folksy Polish, just as he sang folk songs and ballads and made bad jokes. One night in Gniezno, after an open-air Mass for 100,000 young people, he began to lead them in a songfest of popular tunes, starting the huge crowd into favorite after favorite. The youngsters pressed him into encore after encore, and would not let him go until finally he picked up the microphone and half sang to them: "Your buses
They are making a joyful noise unto the Lord at Broadway's Lyceum Theater. But the revivalist songfest is only half the show. The other half is a bacchanalia, a swinging, stomping dance orgy...