Viral Sessions: Chapter 2 - Earl’s Chair/Sporting Paddy/ Silver Spear - grand Irish session

United despite the distance, above borders and differences, Viral Sessions is a collaborative folk music and dance project, an inclusive, informal gathering of artists from all over the globe. It is an undertaking unique in its plurality, playfulness and a universal goal - to warm people’s hearts, lift their spirits and cheer them up in the troubling moments of isolation caused by the global pandemic. It all started as a spontaneous intiative to bring performers together for the St. Patrick’s Day 2020. As the first video went viral, we (Vanessa Medecin, Jan Gałczewski and Jakub “Goldfinch“ Szczygieł) received an astonishing response from all over the world. Out of this unbelievable enthousiasm and the apparent global need for genuine human connection we decided to try something really crazy and to coordinate efforts in creating Viral Sessions: Chapter 2, in which every volunteer could participate. A total number of 141 amazing artists, 5 cats and 1 parrot from 6 of Ea