'You could feel her presence': Halifax's Big Sing honours Ethiopian Airlines victim

Friends of Danielle Moore gathered in Halifax this week for an event dedicated to a person being remembered as full of light.

"She just beams light with her smile and her energy and her kindness, and when she was singingthat just came out in full force," Big Sing facilitator George Woodhouse told CBC's Information Morning.

When the Big Sing started hosting biweekly public singing events in Halifax in 2017, Moore was among the first people to get involved. She was a regular while attending Dalhousie University in Halifax.

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Moore was one of the 157 people killed when Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday.

On Monday night, facilitators dedicated the performance of Sam Smith's Stay with Meto Moore's memory.

"It was something beautiful and powerful and I think really helpful for everyone just to be there and help each other just by singing from the heart," Woodhouse said.

Woodhouse said that members of the Big Sing team were unsure about whether they should go ahead with the week's event, given how news of Moore's death was affecting the team and the broader community. But they concluded it would be Danielle's wish that they proceed.

Woodhouse said though the choice of song wasn't a deliberate attempt to mark the occasion"it really seemed to fit the energy of the evening" and that the act of singing rekindled, for an evening, some of Moore's light.

"I think you could really feel her presence there, you know, in that loving way the way it always would bewhen she would come."