Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

It was so so so good to sing again yesterday! After a very long summer, members of the York Region Community Choir got together in a Newma...

Next weekend you'll hear lots of jazz "plus" lots of other great music at the Newmarket Jazz + Festival: the + means there...

If you're missing choir over the summer, like me, you can: go to our website and look at some photos of us on Concert Night, May 3rd...

We had another fantastic evening singing with seniors last night! What a great show! We all had fun and did a great job. It's so much ...

You can now see and hear how fabulous we were! Standing in the choir and singing, you don't get a good sense of how we sound. You'l...

Your Best Concert Ever!!! I can't tell you how many times I've heard this over the past few days. Saturday night's concert, Ta...

Mon April 21 6:30-Edelweiss was wonderful, This Land is Your Land was good and we will have our music, NWPassage was wonderful (memorizin...

April 14  Sandra and Michele were selling tickets 6:20 This Land is Your Land : We're working on memorizing, but trying words-only fir...

Monday, April 7 6:40: Edelweiss Northwest Passage had to cancel their early rehearsal, so only Edelweiss met. They were able to start a li...

Time to start promoting our show! Saturday, May 3rd at 7:30 in the evening. The show will be called: Take Me Home. Take Me Home...

In case you missed the rehearsal, or if you want a reminder of what we did: March 31st 6:20 This Land is Your Land 6:50 Northwest Passag...

The York Region Community Choir is planning a social event, a trip to the cinema, the SilverCity Newmarket Cinemas, to see the live broadcas...

March 24  6:20 Edelweiss- sounding excellent, adding flute 6:50 This Land is Your Land- very cool! Warm-ups included "washing away...

Kristen had mentioned that she found our version of We Rise Again on YouTube, so I went searching, and here are a couple that are the sam...

March 17 (St. Patrick's Day: we didn't have green beer, but several people wore green clothes) Northwest Passage met at 6:30 and ...

We Rise Again is a beautiful song made popular by the Juno-award winning Rankin Family, as Rise Again on their third album, North Country. T...

We're starting to get pretty good at recording and posting our music for extra rehearsal at home. It's a new thing for us still. I...

It's snowing and blowing like crazy right now, but Monday night was very pleasant, and yesterday was even nicer. We're lucky we don...

In case you missed it, here's what happened on March 3rd. We had a bit of difficulty at the beginning with the room having been set up...

I've reviewed my plan for the season and have decided that we'll do Moon River next year. We can also return Welcome, Welcome Winter...

The Newmarket Prayer Breakfast is Wednesday, March 26th, this year. A few years ago, the YRCC lead the singing of O Canada and performed a...

Robin asked a good question at rehearsal last night. She wanted to know about the time signature for Banks of Newfoundland. How does it wor...

After a weekend of Olympic excitement and Canadian national pride, we started our rehearsal off with our beautiful O Canada , a cappella. It...

I'm falling deep into the February Blahs today. The restless sleep from the storm last night is probably a big factor, the weather for...

Family Day was wonderful! We had delicious treats, but we're going to have to get a new coffee maker. Our old one decided to retire las...

Monday Feb.10 Aurora Resthaven went well- after we all got in and down to the activity room! Wow, was that room decorated! It was a fun ev...

Monday, February 3 1. All the Little Rivers : section E 2. Banks of Newfoundland : p3-4 by, p5 ahs, end 3. Hockey Song: section A, B ...

Tiara says 50 fabulous! Snow Day so I have my girls all day Long-stemmed roses from my husband. fabulous

A friend sent me a link to this article on Pete Seeger, an excellent obituary, knowing that I would like it, that I would be happy to have ...