Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

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...

 I’m so sad that I missed this choir rehearsal; and, I’m so grateful that Lauren and Donna work so well together to lead you when I’m not th...

 It started off shaky, this rehearsal. We had tenors and basses sitting and waiting for Donna and me for 20 minutes or more, while we were e...

 6:30 Anthem Small Group met and sang beautifully. With the sections grouped together and standing together, it sounded excellent.  1. Thank...

 A choir is a team, a wonderful, excellent team. Melinda was away, so Lorraine carted the equipment around, and, as always, people helped to...

 It felt so good to be back together! Thank Heaven it didn't snow or rain or anything for a change! The small group singing Anthem (from...

 Looking forward to singing tonight.  6:30 Anthem Small Group 7:30 Rehearsal Start

 

What an excellent rehearsal! I had several moments of absolute bliss. The harmonies, the songs, the people... bliss. The altos met at 6:30 a...

 My birthday was yesterday, and it was wonderful. The joy started the evening before, Feb. 4th, at choir. My beautiful choir sang Happy Birt...

  We Walk February 22, 2025! The Coldest Night of the Year #CNOY is a winterrific family-friendly fundraising walk in support of local chari...

 

Sunday, January 26th, 2025 We had such a cool experience, singing O Canada on centre ice at a hocky game at Ray Twinney in Newmarket! Whoooo...

Wow! I'm very late with my rehearsal review. I do apologize.  We had a very productive rehearsal, even though we had to quickly add O Ca...

Tomorrow,  Sunday, January 26th, we meet at 3:30 inside the main entrance to find our rehearsal spot at the Ray Twinney Recreation Centre.  ...

It's my first rehearsal review of 2025! This is our 30th Anniversary year!  The YRCC was founded in 1995 as an inclusive alternative to ...

 I've started making a playlist every year so that you can find parts recordings or other choirs singing songs we want to sing, for insp...

 Just a quick note to remind you that we start next week. Stay home and rest up.  This season is going to be big: our 30th Anniversary! 30 Y...

YRCC chorister, have you considered joining the executive/board? We meet infrequently but also communicate via email and in person at choir....