🎤 Pop-Up Choir Princeton

The choir you didn’t know you needed.

Screen-free time to connect with your family and your community.

Pop-Up Choir Princeton: a planned monthly, all-ages community singing experience where families, neighbors, and music-lovers come together to sing pop songs in harmony — no auditions, no pressure, just joy.

  • Kids and parents sing side-by-side

  • Adults who “used to sing” feel safe to try again

  • First-time singers get to experience the magic of choir

Sing shortened versions of well-loved pop songs arranged with easy-to-follow harmonies.

Choose a Part: Low • Middle • High

Rather than being divided by age or gender, singers choose the range that feels best for their voice.

Families sit together and work as a team — either choosing to all sing the same part or challenge each other to sing in harmony.

There will also be moments where singers can volunteer to sing a short line of the melody on their own. If you feel inspired, just raise your hand when prompted and you can try the melody while the choir supports you.

CAPE HARMONY 2015

FIRST EVENT THEME

Songs About Friendship

A proposed schedule for the first Pop-Up Choir event.

Warm-Ups / Part Assignments

6:30pm– 6:40pm

Warm-Up Song:
I’ll Be There by The Jackson 5

6:40pm-6:50pm

Primary Song:
Lean on Me by Bill Withers

6:50pm-7:20pm

Goodbye Song:
See You Again by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth

7:20pm-7:30pm

A screen-free singing experience

PopUp Choir Princeton is intentionally phone-free and screen-free.

Instead of staring at iPads or projectors, everyone receives a simple lyric sheet and learns the music together by ear and by voice — the way humans have always sung. This keeps the focus on listening, connection, and the shared energy of singing in the same room.

Directed by Natalie Cardillo

Natalie Cardillo is a New Jersey–based music educator and vocal arranger whose work blends strong choral pedagogy with contemporary a cappella music. A former high school choir and a cappella director, she spent seven years teaching in Maryland and New Jersey, leading programs of over 100 students and directing award-winning competitive a cappella groups — including the Ridgewood High School AcaBellas, ICHSA Mid-Atlantic Champions and Finalists in 2024 and 2025.

Natalie is the founder of ChoralPop, a modern music education platform that helps choir teachers create engaging, meaningful, and musically rich experiences for their students. Through initiatives such as Let the Students Choose the Music and ChoralPop Classroom, she provides custom arrangements, classroom resources, and professionally recorded practice tracks that support student independence and musical growth. She also created the ChoralPop A Cappella Library, a searchable database of over 100 arrangements designed to help teachers and students discover and program a cappella repertoire more easily.

In addition to her work in education, Natalie performs with the Delaware Choral Scholars, currently ranked #1 in the world on Interkultur. The ensemble recently won the Tolosa International Choral Contest in Spain (2025) and is preparing for the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing in Slovenia (April 2026). She is also a former director of the professional all-female a cappella group Cape Harmony.