--- title: String Quartet Plays on M5 Motorway: Video description: String quartet plays on motorwa canonical: https://time.com/4034801/string-quartet-motorway/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-15T15:40:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:08.029Z og:title: String Quartet Plays on M5 Motorway: Video og:description: String quartet plays on motorwa og:url: https://time.com/4034801/string-quartet-motorway/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: String Quartet Plays on M5 Motorway: Video twitter:description: String quartet plays on motorwa twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a String Quartet Perform on the Side of the Road for People Stuck in a Traffic Jam ## Video: Six Ways to Save Money on Your Energy Usage [Watch (HLS stream): Six Ways to Save Money on Your Energy Usage](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/JzB6L38R.m3u8) (2:57)  _Published 2014-07-16. Six strategies to save you money on your monthly energy bill._  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 15, 2015 3:40 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 15, 2015 3:40 PM UTC The sounds of a traffic jam are not usually music to anyone’s ears. But over the weekend, a string quartet performed for passengers in cars that came to a halt because a runaway horse shut down a section of the English motorway, M5, on the border of Devon and Somerset, according a video of the scene first posted to Facebook by Helen Delingpole, 45, of Ferndale, Wales. In her clip, the musicians can be heard playing Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” in a roadside concert. A cellist in the group, Alison Gillies, 37, from Bristol, [told ](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11863426/String-quartet-performs-for-motorists-in-M5-traffic-jam.html)[_The Telegraph_](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11863426/String-quartet-performs-for-motorists-in-M5-traffic-jam.html)that she and her fellow performers had been coming from a wedding. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4034801/string-quartet-motorway/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4034801/string-quartet-motorway/"},"headline":"Watch a String Quartet Perform on the Side of the Road for People Stuck in a Traffic Jam","datePublished":"2015-09-15T15:40:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:08.029Z","description":"Putting the jam in \"traffic jam\"","url":"https://time.com/4034801/string-quartet-motorway/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4034801/string-quartet-motorway/","name":"Watch a String Quartet Perform on the Side of the Road for People Stuck in a Traffic Jam"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Six Ways to Save Money on Your Energy Usage","description":"Six strategies to save you money on your monthly energy bill.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/JzB6L38R/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-07-16T19:27:35.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/JzB6L38R.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4034801/string-quartet-motorway/","duration":"PT2M57S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4034801/string-quartet-motorway/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```