Eleanor Wallace Appointed As Artistic Director
At the choir’s Annual general meeting on May 8, 2023, the Board of Directors announced that it has appointed Interim Director Eleanor Wallace as Director for the coming year.
Eleanor took over the musical leadership of the choir for the Spring 2023 session on very short notice, following the departure of Chris Dawes. Under her baton, the choir performed two very successful concerts: a March 25 fundraiser for the Townsend Smith Foundation entitled “Beatles & Friends”, as well as the choir’s more formal Spring concert on May 6 entitled “United We Sing”, which was rewarded by a standing ovation.
The Board will be focusing over the Summer on the detailed planning for the usual Christmas concert in December 2023.
Upcoming Performance
Details will be posted about the Christmas 2023 concert soon.
Donation to Townsend Smith Foundation
GCS Chair, Isobel Watkinson (third from the right), accompanied by Rob Vandervecht (second from the right), president of the Rotary Club of Acton, were very pleased to present a cheque for $5,300 to Astrid Lakats, Board Chair of the Townsend Smith Foundation. The money was raised at a concert entitled “Beatles & Friends”, which was joint project of the choir and the Rotary Club, and will help fund a new hospice in the North of Halton region.
After 50 years of successful operation, the choir had to effectively shut down since March of 2020 because of the pandemic, resulting in significant costs both financially, and in terms of declining membership. The choir applied for and was granted an Ontario Trillium Foundation ‘Resilient Communities’ Grant which is designed to help non-profits recover from the devastating effects of the Covid 19 pandemic.
The OTF grant will be of great help in rejuvenating the choir as a vibrant contributor to the Halton Hills cultural scene for the next half-century. Thank you. We are grateful for your support.
Thank you to the Town of Halton Hills
The choir extends its sincere gratitude to the Town of Halton Hills for a ‘Community Partnership’ Grant. Our membership dropped sharply through the pandemic, and the grant allows us to significantly expand our digital marketing and rebuild our membership to a viable level.
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Who We Are
We’ve been around since 1971 – a substantial accomplishment for any choir. The reason we are so successful is that we are a dedicated group of about 80 choristers who like to have fun while we give our audiences high quality performances. Our regular cabaret style events are a hoot, ranging from “down-east” music, roaring twenties “soirées”, or romantic “chocolate & roses” evenings featuring soloists from our own members.
We like to do popular lighter stuff from movie themes and musicals, etc, but we also perform serious classical works such as Mendelssohn’s Elijah, or Mozart’s Requiem, and of course, Handel’s Messiah. We have performed at Roy Thompson Hall, the Ford Center, the Mississauga Arts Centre, and other major venues and have also toured in Europe.
From surveys of our audience we have received feedback such as:
“Appreciate your professionalism and obvious love of music”
“Warm friendly atmosphere at concerts”
“Thank you for your continued service to the community”
“Wonderful entertainment”
“Powerful large group sound”.
So come and join us either as a member or just to enjoy our concerts.
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