Sit back and enjoy some amazing people.

Five performances that convince me that mankind can be absolutely amazing.

I invite you to spend the next half an hour simply being entertained. Try to resist the temptation to click on further suggested links until the end of the post to keep the distraction down. This entire sequence should take less than thirty minutes.

Pentatonix - Evolution of music: an a cappella group, although that hardly does them justice. These people are radiant and  truly enjoy their craft. This is a joy to watch (4 min 29 secs).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lExW80sXsHs

Ben Lapps: Knock on wood. This teenager does the most amazing stuff with a guitar. Simply a joy to watch (2 min 23 secs).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnK6i_moz6Q

Michael Henry and Justin Robinett.
This was the first performance of theirs that I found. A version of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean (4 min 49 secs).

http://youtu.be/3qJW0CgP-bA

Rives: The 4 a.m. mystery. Rives delivers a wonderful spoken word performance (9 min 9 secs).

http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_on_4_a_m.html
His Def Jam performance had me misting up (3 min 15 secs).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbtVepS53t0

Please let me know what you thought of this collection. Did any of it move you?