Howling with the pack in Germany

If you can’t sing alone, sing along — that’s the spirit behind Germany’s Rudelsingen, literally “wolf pack singing”, in which hundreds or even thousands of the tonally challenged singers come together for mass karaoke events. It started as a trend in the 2010s, but now it’s a national tradition. Reporter Valerie Hamilton takes us inside the pack for the story.

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