The innocence and exuberance of children is a miraculous and wonderful thing. A subway full of people was treated to that exuberance when a little girl stopped to enjoy the music. Coyote and Crow, a subway band took to a Manhattan subway to cover Grateful Dead songs.
Most people walked by without noticing the music, but one little girl really felt the music. She stopped her trek to the L train to dance to the tunes. Then something amazing happened, strangers joined in and a dance party erupted in the subway station.
The little girl, who has not been named, looked thrilled when strangers joined her party and danced along with her. A large, non-dancing crowd also formed to watch the little girl get down with the music. Several people stopped to take videos of the exuberant party, and videos of the cheerful child and her new friends has gone viral. The video has been viewed over 5 million times in just 4 days.
It has also been shared hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook, Twitter and other social media websites. Coyote and Crow is a NYC cover band. They play around the boroughs and through Upstate, New York. Since the video first hit the internet, the band has received offers for several shows.
They have also been featured in major news publications, and gained thousands of followers on their Facebook page. As for the little girl in pink who got the whole party started, she remains anonymous, for now.