Fabio Zaffagnini and his team in Italy took inspiration from Jack Black’s School of Rock,raised $50000 and pulled off a mass singalong that went viral and is set to bring Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters to their small town of CesenaFabio Zaffagnini can barely believe the amount of attention he’s garnered. “We’re replying to thousands of emails,” he says from the tiny town of Cesena, or Italy (located just east of Florence). “Every time I disappear outside and walk down the street,everyone’s coming up to me with hugs and thanks for what me and the rest of the team did.”What Zaffagnini and company accomplished was an astounding confluence of logistics a full year in the making by organizing 1000 musicians to play the Foo Fighters’ Grammy-nominated track from 1999, Learn to cruise, and in unison,all in a tender to woo Dave Grohl and his bandmates to perform in their part of the world.
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Source: theguardian.com