By Robert Rowat TORONTO — A viral video featuring PS22, a children’s choir at a New York public school, may be behind the latest phenomena to hit Canada’s vibrant choral music community: the grassroots choir. A grassroots choir is a group of like-minded people who get together in a casual setting to sing simple arrangements […]
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Choir leader retires on a high note
By Linda Leicht SPRINGFIELD, MO — “Place your song within my heart,” the Asbury United Methodist Church choir sang as Margaret Day looked on in amazement. Day, who until Jan. 1 had directed the choir for most of 50 years, was hearing the song for the first time. In fact, it was the premiere performance of […]
Therapist Leads Choir, Connects Community
By Candice Marshall SOUTHPORT, AUSTRALIA — Essentially, the choir uses group singing to increase wellbeing and community connectedness, catching up and rehearsing weekly in Southport. Music therapist, Angela Delaney, is the choir's conductor. "People come by word of mouth or they're referred through support services. The people that come along are people that like feeling […]
Pop-up choir
A Toronto TV program (not embeddable) describes this as a “flash choir”, but it’s really just a casual singing group which meets weekly for fun. Choir! Choir! Choir! is the name of the group, and they have the most interesting website design: it all scrolls horizontally rather than vertically.
Secrecy Surrounded Indianapolis Children’s Choir’s Super Bowl Gig
By Alex Campbell INDIANAPOLIS — Three weeks out from the Super Bowl, Indianapolis Children’s Choir artistic director Henry Leck had heard nothing. He had been pushing for two years to get his kids involved in the Super Bowl. He thought that he would have heard something by then, so he figured he was out of […]
Fort Bend Boys Choir of Texas to open Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
The thirty-four boys of the Tour Choir of the Fort Bend Boys Choir of Texas has been chosen to open the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo on Tuesday February 28 and every one of the next 18 days of the Rodeo as well. They will be singing the National Anthem at Reliant Stadium for the […]