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With any festival, you need good music! And since this is a summer festival, we need some good summer music! Let's put together a festival summer playlist.

The way that this will work is that everyone can submit songs to add to the playlist, but they must explain how it relates to summer...it has to be related to summer in some way, whether it's about summer or something related to summer, has a summer vibe, just reminds you of summer in some way, or anything other way that you can explain a relation with. When we have a few songs, I'll put them in a playlist (possibly in Youtube or Spotify) that we can all listen to and enjoy!

Let's get started.

I'll go with the obvious one:

Cliff Richard's "Summer Holiday."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zUeAaBGVTk

It used to be my family's tradition to sing this at the start of summer (usually with very mangled lyrics). I'd never heard the full song until five minutes ago.
It's so... cheerful. (dah dah-dah dah, dah dah dah...)

I'm going to contribute...

This is my go-to clip for peaceful, calming, relaxing music...when I listen to it, it makes me think of relaxing in a lush, green field while listening to the sound of a creek gently flowing. One of the few things I listen to to get a summer feeling. xD

I will share the Gloria from Street Requiem. Street Requiem has been written for all the people that die on the streets, often unknown and never missed.
I sing it frequently with my choir because we are one of the many choirs that come under the School of Hard Knocks banner, as do the composers of this piece of music. Much of the music in Street Requiem is sad or angry, but the one I will share is full of a kind of sad joy.

Here it is:
Street Requiem, Pt. 8 (Gloria) (Anthem of Empowerment) (Live) (feat. Danielle Matthews)