Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

Another big, beautiful choir rehearsal! What an amazing job you're doing learning this season's music!  The Mele Kalikimaka small g...

 I just copied and pasted this old post so new members can get some extra music theory and everyone can remember that breathing in choir is ...

Wow! What a big, wonderful sound we had! Some moments took my breath away.  6:30: the Small Group was Mele Kalikimaka, and they got through...

We made joyful noise with percussion instruments for our small group song African Noel! It's coming along nicely. We added Sharon and Lo...

Wow! That was fun! We started with a bang, and a boom-boom-boom. African Noel, the small group that met at 6:30 is going to be excellent. We...

It was a grand night for singing, despite the rain. We got all the equipment and stuff inside, not too wet,  except for my ‘riser’ which I l...

Friday's Theatre outing.  This past Friday, a bunch of us went to Theatre Aurora on Henderson Drive just west of Yonge Street to see A G...

Woo-hoo! We had a bunch of new people come to sing with us. It was great. I love sharing our wonderful thing, our choir (therapy) evening, t...

I'm so happy to be back at choir!!!  It was wonderful to see so many of my choir friends again after a long hot summer. It was a good su...

  This is a fantastic opportunity for young people in Newmarket, Sharon, East Gwillimbury, Queensville, Aurora, Bradford,... Sharon-Hope Chu...

 Next week! We meet again starting next week. Yay! I hope you all enjoyed the summer, and you're all ready and excited like I am, ready ...

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

Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 10th will be the last meeting of the York Region Community Choir until September 9th, 2025.  We're singing at Ma...

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, a...

Here's a link  to the video of the whole concert. It's huge, so it's not easy to save or share, but I've added it to my YouT...

 I've been putting off reviewing the concert because we had someone create a video of the whole thing (yes!) and we're figuring out ...

   This concert sounds amazing! There will be dancers. Our experience performing with the Newmarkst Citizen's Band was so cool, and we l...

We had our first seniors' performance last night.  It was wonderful, such a joy! Here's a bit of my concert script, from our May 3rd...

Our last rehearsal was fantastic. You sound beautiful.  Wasn't the flute amazing?! There will also be a song with guitars, so our concer...

We're almost there! It was not perfect being in that space, but we did good work. 1. Canon of Joy : remember to bounce the long notes, e...

I'm feeling very good after last night's rehearsal. Lots of gold stars would have been handed out.  The small groups, Anthem, and To...

 Support Trinity United Church: Tickets $25.00 10-year-old Angel's playing is astounding.

 Oh, how I love my choir! What a beautiful evening we had, what a joy to hear our songs coming together so wonderfully!  First, at 6:30, Mel...