Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

Monday, March 6th, 2017 6:30 St. Elmo's Fire- Excellent! We got over the timing issues. It helps that it's in cut time, 2 beats pe...

Monday, February 27th, 2017 6:30 St. Elmo's Fire Small Group-getting closer. Timing seems to be an issue. We had a wonderful surpris...

A very big, heartfelt thank you to Trix, Rob, Robin, Melodie, Lyn, and Ellen for supporting me on my walk! I love my choir! It felt wonderfu...

CNOY stands for Coldest Night of the Year.  CNOY is a walk, a fundraising walk which supports programs for homeless people. My daughters ...

Monday, February 20th, 2017: Family Day! 6:30 Love Theme from St. Elmo's Fire- Wow! What a beautiful song! 1. Hallelujah: Always a t...

Monday, February 13th, 2017 at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Aurora. Thanks, again, for providing us a home when we're bumped ...

Monday, February 6th, 2017 6:30 V'la l'bon vent was excellent! We've got it moving now, and we'll have an awesome surprise...

So, researchers have said that people who listen to more than one genre of music tend to be smarter, more creative, open minded, and honest...

Monday, January 30th, 2017 6:30 V'la l'bon vent  Bilingual Small Group. Fun! We added spoons and a few repetitions of the chorus s...

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...