Community Chorus Project's Director Lauren Hodge gathered 32 local high school kids and formed a chorus in the summer of 2011. With the music department at the University of North Carolina, the chorus worked with teaching artists for two weeks to learn more about singing.

At the end of the workshop they went into Manifold Studio and recorded this versions of REM's "Everybody Hurts" with local band The Beast and Mallarme Chamber Players -- arrangements by Eric Hirsh and Shana Tucker, filmed by Scott Rucci.