By Bill Henry
OWEN SOUND, ON — Regan MacNay had her sights on a percussion career with a major orchestra. Her dedication to practising many hours every day at Western University led to serious tendonitis. It numbed her arms and ended any dreams of drumming.
Doctors doubted MacNay would regain full use of her arms. So the Wiarton musician, singer and now educator and music director with both the Georgian Bay Concert Choir and the Georgian Bay Children’s Choir was forced to change plans.
“It was earth shattering at the time,” MacNay said recently. “Now I realize it was probably a good thing because it forced me to broaden my knowledge and my learning.”
A singer all her life, starting in Grade 7 with the acclaimed Children’s Festival Chorus in Port Elgin, MacNay redirected her musical focus toward composition, conducting and music history, along with English literature and an eventual Masters degree in that discipline.
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