Summer Singing Opportunities 2025

While we’re not singing together in July and August, please find opportunities to sing in other places and with other people. 

You can always sing in your car and in your kitchen.

You can accept all invitations to cottages, camping, and beach days, and do some campfire singing. Or, sing while you paddle around in a lake. Sound carries over water, so have some buddies join you if you’re not comfortable with a solo performance. 

Orchestrate some backyard sing-alongs if you can. 

Singing outdoors in the summer is an opportunity you don’t want to miss.

I’ve enjoyed the free concerts in Aurora and Newmarket in the past. They have ‘tribute bands’ who perform all the hits you know, and you’ll want to sing and dance along. I’ve added these concerts to our YRCC Calendar to encourage you to go. I’m definitely going to the first Newmarket one, on July 3rd, although I’m probably going to be late. I hope you find me there. I hope we run into one another during the summer, and this is my way of orchestrating some opportunities for us to casually get together to sing. 

Here’s a link to the calendar. Wednesdays are at Town Park in Aurora, and Thursdays are at Riverwalk Commons in Newmarket.

YRCC Annual General Meeting and Party tomorrow

Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 10th will be the last meeting of the York Region Community Choir until September 9th, 2025. 

We're singing at Mackenzie Place from 6:30-7:30, and then we'll head over to our room at the Administrative Centre on Yonge Street for a short meeting, the once-a-year meeting of the choir membership to do a little necessary business, and then we eat and chat and hopefully do some fun singing.

 If you're not planning to sing at the care home, then go straight to our room. You can help set up and start socializing. 

Bring something sweet or savoury to snack on, party snacks. We'll have tea and coffee, and maybe cool beverages? 

You'll have an opportunity to influence the choice of music for the fall/winter season. You had an email with attachments, and one was a list of songs. Choose your top 3, and we'll create a 30th anniversary winter concert of our favourite winter and Christmas songs. 

Please bring your binder and all of our music to return it, if you haven't already done so. After tomorrow, you will have to deliver it to Peggy's or Anne's house. All music must be returned before the end of June. 

Peggy and Anne, and the music selection committee, and the executive will be working over the summer to prepare the next season. 

Don't stop singing. Every chance you get, sing. Sing at summer concerts. Sing at bonfires. Sing in the car on roadtrips. Sing in the kitchen. Sing, sing, sing. 

 

Thursday, June 5th Sing-along Café will be Outdoors

You might want to join my Sing-along Café this Thursday! 

We're going to be outside, singing along with a cover band, Telltale Sounds, at the 2025 Newmarket Music Series Lineup Launch Party! Then, we'll sing and dance to Glenn Marais and the Mojo Train! 

I think we'll want to bring lawn chairs, and maybe a snack and a beverage. There will be a food truck there if you want to get something fun. 

We are asked to bring a Food Bank Donation.

We'll meet at Trinity United Church. We'll head down together on foot from the Park Street entrance at 6:15. Hopefully that will be early enough to get parking behind the church or at the library and get a spot to sit at Riverwalk Commons. 

We'll walk across Main Street, down the stairs to the parking lot, and across towards the community centre- unless some of us have issues with stairs, then we'll go down the ramp at the next block that ends up just behind the community centre. 

Wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather (should be perfect, not too warm, not too cool).

I'm a big fan of these free summer concerts. Can't wait to hear what bands are coming!

This sign will be on the Park St. Door