Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

Today, I participated in a workshop offered by Choirs Ontario about Online Rehearsals. The presenter was Antonio Llaca from Carleton Univers...

I'm doing the CNOY walk again! It won't be the fun community event with hundreds of people starting together with speeches and prize...

 These dark days of winter, after all of Christmas has all been packed away, can be depressing. And, with COVID restrictions dragging on for...

 Our first Zoom choir of the year was wonderful! We had some sad moments and a few tears but also lots of laughs and lots of fun singing! We...

  Happy New Year! The York Region Community Choir survived a year without a concert.  We had to cancel our Spring 2020 Concert, and there wa...

 I wish you a peaceful and also joyful holiday. I am so blessed to have my daughters at home and I saw family and friends thanks to video ca...

 I’m going to share some opportunities for singing for you here.  Pat let me know of an event organized by the Aurora Seniors Centre happeni...

 We had crazy weather with lots of rain and wind and snow but we don’t worry about missing choir because of bad weather these days.  With Zo...

We know that I like big endings and I always insist on everyone watching at the end, so that it can be very dramatic sometimes. I can someti...

 We sing, really we do.  But, we also chat. And, on Monday this week, we chatted about our pets and how some of us can’t imagine how we’d su...

 We had some fun talking about our favourite drinks.  Some of us enjoy a glass of wine or a cup of tea while we meet, which the choir execut...

 ONE VOICE (which happens to be the name of one of our songs too) This is the video that some of us saw on Facebook and cried. Happy tears a...

  Little Tree, were you sorry to leave the forest? I’ll comfort you. Yes, we sang Little Tree! I love that song, and someone, I think it was...

 It’s already Sunday?! Tomorrow is Monday, choir day! Please join us in our Zoom choir hour. It’s not what we really want, it’s not us in a ...

 Where are you?  We were missing  some people and some people were telling us that they hadn’t received the Zoom invitation for choir this  ...

 We met again with increasing comfort and confidence in Zoom.  I encourage every member of the York Region Community Choir to join these Mon...

 The YRCC had another successful Zoom meet-up. Successful means all kinds of things, doesn’t it? We warmed up our voices and then sang a few...

The YRCC has always met on Thanksgiving Monday because the season is short and we needed all the time we could get to rehearse for our conce...

 It was better than I’d hoped! We met on Zoom, using Tab’s premium work account and it was very, very nice. I used my work laptop this time ...

 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 ...