---
title: "Quarantined Italians Are Singing, Playing Music on Balconies"
description: "Videos from Italian cities currently under lockdown show neighbors entertaining each other by singing and playing music from their balconies."
date: "2020-03-16"
modified: "2020-03-16"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/quarantined-italians-singing-playing-music-balconies"
categories:
  - "Developments"
  - "Health & Medicine"
tags:
  - "coronavirus"
  - "covid19"
---

# Quarantined Italians Are Singing, Playing Music on Balconies

![Videos from Italian cities currently under lockdown show neighbors entertaining each other by singing and playing music from their balconies.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/quarantined-italians-singing-playing-music-balconies.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: @leonardocarella via Twitter\</em\>*

Right now, Italy is facing the most severe outbreak of COVID-19 outside of mainland China — and video shows that the populace is going to unusual lengths to keep itself entertained while in quarantine.

The entire country [is currently under lockdown](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/italy-nationwide-travel-restrictions-death-toll-soars>), with thousands of casualties and tens of thousands infected. So residents of a number of Italian cities have taken to keeping each other amused by holding impromptu concerts, either singing or playing music [from their balconies](<https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1238511612270690305>).

https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1238511612270690305

In one [video from Turin](<https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1238511958116175879>), people can be heard joining in as Maracena is blasted from a nearby home.

It's an unusual moment: Uplifting moments of community action and solidarity in the face of a [viral pandemic](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/coronavirus-outbreak-officially-pandemic>) that has residents stuck in their homes for the foreseeable future — and a reminder that people hit by quarantines and lockdowns need to find ways to cope and continue living.

https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1238511958116175879

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
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