Thank you all for the kind words! And for the negative comments, no offense taken - life’s too short. I remember singing it like it was just yesterday. Second from the right! The cantor is Tony Araujo - complete legend. At the time he was actual our choral instructor that taught all the gents in that video (and 1000s more) everything they know about singing.
14 years on and I still watch this. A friend started singing it canoeing by Atikokan, Ontario, in 2007. I found your choir's version shortly after. Now I'm in Antarctica, thinking about exploration and what it all meant, what it still means, how we're all inexorably tied to the land and each other, how context changes. Thanks for posting this, and even more, thank you for singing.
Never seen so many young japanese men singing so beautifully, and doing such incredible justice to a canadian folk classic. Edogawa highschool should be bursting with pride.
Well done. And on an unrelated note - Hakodate is the twin city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. I visited Honshu and Kyushu in 2016 but hope some day to visit Hokkaido.
