Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

 28-SEP-2020  The day the York Region Community Choir went Zoom! Zoom kind of worked. About 22 people came and talked and sang and we’re goi...

 Well, it doesn’t look like we will be able to meet in person for a while yet, and we can’t have a concert so we have nothing to rehearse fo...

YRCC Members: Please respond to recent email with your feelings, comments, intentions YRCC members received an email on June 30th with a r...

Cheryl from the Soprano section (you know the one with the sweet accent) shared with me a link to the Great British Home Chorus. This is a f...

So, I'm sad about missing choir. It was difficult to make the decision to cancel our rehearsals and our concert, but I'm so glad we ...

Here's a list of songs you'll find on our website to sing with that Blair calls   the YRCC Playlist for Covid19 Times : Button Up ...

Melinda sent this:  ChoirChoirChoir is doing their third sing along this Sunday. Here is the info: Choir on Sunday @ 3 ...

COVID-19.  We will never forget 2020, the year everything stopped and everyone stayed home.  Our May 2nd spring concert is cancelle...

What a stressful week this has been! With all the news of cancellations and closures, you must be wondering what will happen to choir. ...

This is a double review because I was sick last week with a horrible stomach bug. Last Monday, March 2nd, Carol and Debbie rehearsed thei...

6:30 small group: Night of Stars They're done. Awesome. Keep singing and we'll rehearse this again in April. Warm-up: We danced ...

We had a great turn-out for a holiday Monday! We had some fun warming up with some dance music to get us feeling syncopation and claps on b...

It's cold out there! The Coldest Night of the Year (CNOY) is on Saturday, February 22, 2020.  Please consider donating to my f...

Our wonderful president, Lauren, brought us sweet treats for Valentine's Day and a special chocolate rose for me! Thank you so much, Lau...

Thank you for singing Happy Birthday to me! Tomorrow's my birthday and I'll have you all in my heart. We had a dance warm-up, explo...

We had another wonderful evening together! It was sweetened with sweets from Stanley to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Thank you, and Happ...

Come Rain or Come Shine small group members can click on this link  to get to a recording of our arrangement of your song! You can also fi...

Thank you to Anne-Marie for standing in for me last week, on January 13th! I was in bed with the horrible cold that's been going around...

Happy New Year! We're back! It was awesome to see and hear you all! We had a very brief warm-up and then did a whole lot of singi...

Our concert tomorrow is going to be another "best ever". You are all so good! And, we'll be giving all we can, our hearts. ...

Here's another article about how healthy music is! Click here. Doctors Now Prescribing Music Therapy for Heart Ailments, Brain Dysfun...

I'm very pleased with this last rehearsal. I admit that I was worried about a couple things, but you all did an amazing job catching up ...

YRCC, you can now find the concert order on the website under "Members" in "Winter Concert Order". Please have your bind...

Snowstorms should not be allowed on Mondays. It was such a messy night, such a slow and slippery drive, but a good number of us bravely mad...

We're getting there! Less than a month now. Small group, Evening Prayer is ready. So pretty! Warm-ups included stress points and a lit...

6:30 Randomnotez Quartet rehearsal Warm-ups were brief with a quick physical warm-up to release the stress of our day, and then some vocal...

I keep forgetting that I told you I'd post links to YouTube videos of straw exercises so that you can do them at home. I love how we hu...

6:30 In the Bleak Midwinter Warm-ups straw exercise including O Canada (for election night) 1. All I Want For Christmas:  We got pretty fa...

If you didn't know what a treasure Tab (alto) is, then now you will. Tab has recorded parts for Let it Snow for us! Go to the website ...

I'll start with what happened after break yesterday. But, first, I have to express my love for my choir. I LOVE MY CHOIR! I'm ever...