Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

Warm-ups were different moves done as we sang Frere Jacques in a 4-part round. It was not easy. 1. All the Little Rivers is so cool! We wo...

We were at St. Andrew's in Aurora because we were bumped out of our room in the Admin Centre. Thank you to Lauren and Enid for arrangin...

First rehearsal of 2017! 1. O Canada . It sounded beautiful! Especially a cappella! We reviewed the alto, tenor and bass parts, and they...

We need to spice up our O Canada for our special Canada theme. I'm thinking about having us sing a whole verse in French, or maybe some ...

Soloists and Small groups , we need some pop songs, famous melodies, some fun stuff. Please see me soon with your ideas! Canadians have ...

If you still haven't handed in your binder. Please do it as soon as possible! If you don't know where Lyn lives, look her up in th...

6:30 Jeremiah Joy to the World. I forgot to bring the tambourine and other percussion instruments I wanted to add to African Noel, and it ma...

Yikes! I was sick on Monday, and although I didn't get hit with a big flu as expected, but only a short couple of days of discomfort, I ...

Another holiday Monday, but we were mostly at choir :-) 6:30-7 Please Don't Sing small group 7-7:30 Noel Nouvelet with Rebekah Warm...

Monday, October 24th, 2016 6:30 Small Group Please Don't Sing Another Fa-la-la Warm-ups included breathing exercises 1. Carol of th...

Our Joy has done an amazing job of recording our accompaniment and parts of Various Themes on Fa-la-la for the website. Sign in and go to th...

Monday, October 17th, 2016 6:30 Noel Nouvelet with Rebecca on flute (Rebecca now has the music and we will meet again on November 7th to r...

I am thankful that such a good group showed up on Thanksgiving Monday! We had a rough start, as those of us who were there early for the s...

Monday, October 3rd, 2016 small groups 6:30 Jeremiah Joy : keep working on clapping and singing 7:00 Noel Nouvelet : blend with your sec...

Monday, September 26th, 2016 YRCC Rehearsal 6:30 Jeremiah Joy with clapping and shaker Warm-ups incorporated ideas from our Saturday ch...

When I'm looking for ideas for warm-ups, I go to YouTube and find all kinds of cool things. Bill recently sent me the following links....

We welcomed several people from the waiting list who were checking us out. We hope to see them all back next week! Small Group at 6:30: ...

NOEL NOUVELET is a pretty 2-part piece for women only (SA) in French! Sign up for the "Event" on the website. We start rehearsing...

12-SEP-2016 Welcome Back!!! Registration Day. Warm-ups included a new Swans Sweetly Singing round. 1. Canon of Joy: We welcomed our new ...

A small group will do a fun Joy to the World inspired by the song in the "video" here. I had to figure out how to make the so...

Tomorrow, Labour Day Monday, is the last choirless Monday of 2016 until December 26! Go online now and pre-register for the 2016-2017 seas...

Introducing  the Executive of the York Region Community Choir  for the 2016/2017 Choir Year: The Executive works together with t...

The York Region Community Choir is a fun group of folks who just love to sing! We are a non-auditioning, non-competing choir and we are look...

Whoa! I haven't posted since when? I'm sorry! The end of our season was wonderful but busy, and now I've been working on plann...

Soloists, please memorize your solos so that you can look at the audience. You will sound so much better looking up and out instead of down ...

Early Birds get to sing more  6:45 Robyn and Trix 7:00 First Sopranos

April 11 Song Sung Blue and Sing Small group met at 6:30 with Kevin T. 1. Hallelujah: remember to check the tricky bits on the website ...

Monday, April 4th Sing Me A Song met early and   Grand Night for Singing met early. 1. We started with a good warm-up, physical and voc...