YRCC PR Role Remains Open- Yours to Create

YRCC chorister, have you considered joining the executive/board? We meet infrequently but also communicate via email and in person at choir. When we meet, it's always a fun and positive experience with wine and snacks and great conversation. 

The PR position is open, and since it's been shared by the rest of us and now Robin (contacting seniors' homes), the responsibilities and tasks are flexible. You can bring your gifts and skills to us and we'll work with you. 

Basically, PR is keeping us connected to the community around us. The stuff that used to be done by a public and media relations person would have been contacting and booking venues for performances (and keeping track of them, details, contacts...) advertising (online and print media), and creating posters and programs and tickets for our concerts. 

Our advertising has been kept low-key for several years because we had a long waiting list for quite some time. And, we were happy to have only limited extra performances, outside of our 2 regular concerts. Our social media presence is primarily for the choristers. 

Lauren, Jane, and Robin and I are taking care of the all of that, but if we had a PR person, you could take over some or all of those tasks if you like. 

Ideally you would be a creative person with an interest in communications, social media, graphic design, and love the choir and singing with us. If you don't want to be a member of the board, that's okay, but we'd love to have a new friend at our meetings. 

I would love to see someone coordinate photography and videography at our performances. We had a member's family take videos of us at concerts for several years, but not for the past decade. Photos are kind of random. Whenever someone shares them, we post them. 

Photos and videos could be used on our website and I would love it if someone took over our Facebook page, and maybe added some other social media spaces for us. I'll keep my blog, but you could post on the website, a blog or vlog could be a cool addition. Our website will soon be getting a make-over, bringing it up-to-date for our current needs. You could help with that, and help with keeping it up. We use a website host that has support, and our website re-design will include some support as well. Whatever you know will help, and you will have opportunities to learn.

Let me know if you have time and interest in doing any of these things, and especially if you feel called to take on the PR position on the executive. 

Still Have Your YRCC Binder?!!! Hand it in asap.

 If you are still in possession of YRCC music and/or your binder, it's never too late to return it. 

Ideally, we get all the binders back with all the music in them at the end of each season. That way, the sheet music can be filed away for future use, and the next season's music can be prepared for each member before the first day of the season, in September or January. 

At the end of a season, there is usually a binder bin on somebody's front porch. This year, it's on Anne Copsey's porch in Newmarket. If you're a current member, you can find her address and phone number in the membership directory on our website. The members listing is only available after you log in, so make sure you have your password handy. 

If you are a past member, you can email yrccinfo@gmail.com and we'll help you out. 

We pay quite a bit of money to have legal copies of music (prints from purchased pdfs or printed scores from the publisher) for every chorister singing. Membership fees help to cover those expenses, but we want our fees to remain as low as possible. 

Thursday Nights On Hold for the Holidays

 

YRCC Post-concert Seniors' Tour Winter 2024

I'm so happy with yesterday's performance at the Renoir! The choir, a good number of you and a lovely balance of parts, sounded excellent, maybe better than on Sunday. I think we were all more relaxed and having fun, and it liberated your sound. Those seniors were very lucky. I love my choir!!!

I am so happy that I agreed that we could do Song for a Winter's Night with everyone singing the two solos. It was beautiful, not as dramatic/special as with the soloists, but it was lovely to have everyone singing. It sounded pretty and powerful, and seeing everyone enjoy that song was heartwarming. The seniors' visits do this for us; liberating and heartwarming.

As always, I had tons of wonderful praise from our audience, praise and gratitude. They loved being able to sing along! You could see it and feel it, but they also expressed it. 

Remaining Senoirs Tour: I need more sopranos, but more everything really, for the upcoming visits. Please sign up and come to sing. You will be so happy that you did! However, of you're sick, you can't come into a seniors' residence/care home. Don't feel bad, just let me know and I'll cancel your "registration" so someone else can take your place. It's fun and easy with lots of sing-along Christmas/winter/holiday songs. 

Binders: Don't forget that you need to return your binder and all music by December 20th. If you can't do that at a seniors' visit, you will need to drop it off at Anne Copsey's house: 402 Silken Laumann Dr., Newmarket. There's a bin by her front door.