Canary Pages 2017

Celebrating its 25th year, Echo is a 60-voice community choir open to women from all walks of life. Echo rehearses each Tuesday night at the Church of the Holy Trinity (beside the Eaton Centre), performs at city-wide grassroots events, and holds December and April concerts. Echo, a non-auditioned choir co-led by Becca Whitla and Alan Gasser, aims to build a strong, varied and vibrant culture and community through song. Repertoire includes music from village singing traditions around the world and newly-commissioned music. Echo aims to keep membership fees and concert tickets accessible to all. To join Echo, register on our website to begin singing with us in September. Winter concert December 10, 2017, 7:30pm at Holy Trinity with special guest, artist-in-residence Annabelle Chvostek.

Alan Gasser
416-779-5554
info.echo@gmail.com
www.echowomenschoir.ca

The Durham Girls’ Choir welcomes girls from all over Durham region. Consisting of two choirs, the non-auditioned junior choir (ages 7 to 11) and the auditioned senior choir (ages 11 to 18), this dynamic and active touring choir performs several times a year at a variety of concerts and events. Notable recent performances include singing with Liona Boyd, The Tenors, Durham Turf Dogs and The Oshawa Generals. In addition to weekly practices, the choir makes a point of having a lot of fun! A fall camp experience, afternoon workshops, plus social events like movies and painting encourage choristers to build leadership skills and friendships. We are always looking for new members, and we’d love to see you!

Laurie Stapley, choir manager
info@durhamgirlschoir.org
www.durhamgirlschoir.org

Duly Noted is Toronto's all-treble, a cappella ensemble. We sing everything from madrigals to Justin Bieber and have a lot of fun doing it! We sing in two self-produced concerts per year and 2+ charity, festival or paid gigs as opportunities arise. All of the profits raised from our concerts go to charity. To date we have donated over $6K to local Toronto charities.

Jennifer Kirner
416-629-7554
dulynotedTO@gmail.com
www.dulynotedTO.com

The 24-voice DaCapo Chamber Choir was founded in 1998 in Kitchener-Waterloo under the direction of Leonard Enns. The mission of the choir is to identify, study, rehearse and present outstanding choral chamber works of the past 100 years and to champion music of Canadian and local composers. In 2010, DaCapo received Choral Canada’s National Choral Recording of the Year award for ShadowLand; in 2011 it received first and second prizes in the National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs. DaCapo also annually offers NewWorks, a national choral composition competition. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @DaCapoChoir!

Sara Martin
519-725-7549
info@dacapochamberchoir.ca
www.dacapochamberchoir.ca