Meet the Quarantined Quartet family who stream daily concerts online

Meet the Quarantined Quartet - a family of four who have spent every day of lockdown strumming guitars and streaming concerts on Instagram. Dad Jason, mom Elysa, and their sons Joseph and Noah Hochman have played beautiful Spanish-inspired songs together for the last 90 days in their home in Brooklyn, New York. Jason, 41, and Elysa, 39, who own the New York Guitar Academy in Manhattan, came up with the musical project to bring some creativity and unity to the family's quarantine. Jason said: "We were always playing guitar in the house but our schedules would never allow for us to be together as a quartet. "We had this unique opportunity to be together as a family."We gave ourselves a cute name - the Quarantined Quartet - and the goal of posting one or two videos a day."It definitely kept us busy and sane for the most part. "It also gives us family time. "When you are in quarantine, a lot of people just do their own thing - the parents have work, the kids have school. "But our practice is a time in the day when we all come together and make music together." Jason, Elysa, Joseph, 10, and Noah, eight, spend an hour daily playing their Spanish-inspired songs as a quartet. They practice in different spots around their home including the bedroom, backyard, staircase and living room. The family prefer to write their own music but have added arrangements of songs including Hotel California and the Godfather theme tune to their repertoire. "We rehearse all our songs, we repeat them, we try to perfect them and then I share about two or three videos a day from those practice sessions on Instagram."It's funny, looking back on those videos you can see the children's hair getting longer as they haven't had a hair cut since lockdown began."The Quarantined Quartet has been a hit on social media. "We started with 50 followers and now we have 13,000 people following us," Jason said. Joseph came up with the idea of streaming a concert on the app every ten days with up to 5,000 people watching the quartet. "We celebrate every milestone day in quarantine - the 10th, 20th, 30th day and so on - with an Instagram Live concert," Jason said."Our concerts are about 40 minutes and we have a halftime show where we invite someone else to show their talents."Jason added that even when he and Elysa return to work and the children go back to school, they will remain the Quarantined Quartet. "We are definitely going to keep going after quarantine. "There are lots of negative aspects about quarantining but this is a huge positive. "It gave us something to do as a family and it gave us an opportunity to come together."

Meet the Quarantined Quartet - a family of four who have spent every day of lockdown strumming guitars and streaming concerts on Instagram.

Dad Jason, mom Elysa, and their sons Joseph and Noah Hochman have played beautiful Spanish-inspired songs together for the last 90 days in their home in Brooklyn, New York.

Jason, 41, and Elysa, 39, who own the New York Guitar Academy in Manhattan, came up with the musical project to bring some creativity and unity to the family's quarantine.

Jason said: "We were always playing guitar in the house but our schedules would never allow for us to be together as a quartet.

"We had this unique opportunity to be together as a family."We gave ourselves a cute name - the Quarantined Quartet - and the goal of posting one or two videos a day."It definitely kept us busy and sane for the most part.

"It also gives us family time.

"When you are in quarantine, a lot of people just do their own thing - the parents have work, the kids have school.

"But our practice is a time in the day when we all come together and make music together." Jason, Elysa, Joseph, 10, and Noah, eight, spend an hour daily playing their Spanish-inspired songs as a quartet.

They practice in different spots around their home including the bedroom, backyard, staircase and living room.

The family prefer to write their own music but have added arrangements of songs including Hotel California and the Godfather theme tune to their repertoire.

"We rehearse all our songs, we repeat them, we try to perfect them and then I share about two or three videos a day from those practice sessions on Instagram."It's funny, looking back on those videos you can see the children's hair getting longer as they haven't had a hair cut since lockdown began."The Quarantined Quartet has been a hit on social media.

"We started with 50 followers and now we have 13,000 people following us," Jason said.

Joseph came up with the idea of streaming a concert on the app every ten days with up to 5,000 people watching the quartet.

"We celebrate every milestone day in quarantine - the 10th, 20th, 30th day and so on - with an Instagram Live concert," Jason said."Our concerts are about 40 minutes and we have a halftime show where we invite someone else to show their talents."Jason added that even when he and Elysa return to work and the children go back to school, they will remain the Quarantined Quartet.

"We are definitely going to keep going after quarantine.

"There are lots of negative aspects about quarantining but this is a huge positive.

"It gave us something to do as a family and it gave us an opportunity to come together."