Ed Sheeran Joins Sydney Bourbeau for “Thinking Out Loud”

Ed Sheeran joins Sydney Bourbeau for ‘Thinking Out Loud’ at West Edmonton Mall. The shared performance places the song within a public shopping-centre setting, with the two singers at close range and onlookers gathered around the occasion.

Bourbeau’s own upload preserves the duet and identifies the song directly. The recording was published in June 2015, keeping this performance connected to a particular public appearance rather than presenting it as footage from a later Sheeran concert.

Contemporary reporting locates the event at the Alberta shopping centre, where Bourbeau was performing for a fundraiser. That setting helps explain the scale of the scene, with the familiar song already underway in a space used by shoppers and passers-by.

The musical connection is immediate because both singers share the same melody. Sheeran enters the performance of his song while Bourbeau remains part of the occasion, giving the arrangement a duet shape within the continuing public presentation.

The complete video below preserves that sequence. Watching it through gives the arrival, shared singing and surrounding audience their proper context, allowing the musical handover to be followed as part of the event rather than only a brief recognisable moment.

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The shopping-centre environment creates a different frame from a theatre stage. Retail displays and nearby people remain part of the visual scene, with the close distance between the performers and audience giving the recording its particular public character.

The melody provides a clear thread through that environment. Returning phrases allow listeners to follow the song while the scene changes around the singers, keeping the musical material familiar even when the setting is less formal than a conventional concert.

The shared microphone performance puts the voices in direct relation. The singers take part in one continuing arrangement, and their different vocal tones become part of the song’s texture while the accompaniment supplies the framework beneath the melody.

The recording also keeps the encounter at the scale of the room. Its sound and camera position belong to a public performance viewed from nearby, preserving the people and surroundings that make this appearance distinct from a studio version.

The song’s phrasing matters within that setting just as it does on a larger stage. A clear entry and continuing melodic line help the performance move forward, connecting individual vocal moments to the shared arrangement that carries the duet.

Bourbeau’s upload is especially useful because it comes from a participant in the scene. It preserves the performance’s own context, allowing the viewer to return to the actual duet instead of relying on an unrelated montage of Sheeran appearances.

The event is a specific recorded encounter, and its details should stay attached to that occasion. Bourbeau’s first name identifies the singer; the performance took place in Edmonton, with the mall setting providing the location around the shared song.

Sheeran’s official ‘Thinking Out Loud’ video below offers a companion version of the composition. Its produced setting differs from the mall performance, making the familiar song available for comparison without suggesting that the footage comes from the same event.

A separate street-performance recording featuring Sheeran provides another public musical context. The place, participants and occasion differ, so it is best approached as companion material that extends the viewing rather than another angle on Bourbeau’s duet.

The central recording remains the shared song at West Edmonton Mall. Its interest comes from the way a familiar composition connects two singers within an everyday environment, with the surrounding audience witnessing the musical partnership at close range.

Bourbeau and Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ gives the melody a distinct public setting. The full video preserves the song and encounter together, allowing the voices, accompaniment and nearby listeners to remain part of one complete recorded occasion.