Trinity Newmarket Singers

 

I apologize for the short notice, but I've decided to break for summer a couple weeks early. For July and August, you can spend every Thursday at Riverwalk Commons at the free concerts there. Thursday night is still "my singing night". I like to take in as many of those free concerts as I can. If you like, you can send me a text or an email and we can go together, or meet up there.   Aurora has free concerts on Wednesday evenings, so I might go there sometimes instead, or too, depending on the weather, other summer plans, and whimsy.  We'll open the café again in September. I hope to see you then. 

We're going to be outside, singing along with a cover band, Telltale Sounds, at the 2025 Newmarket Music Series Lineup Launch Party! Then, we'll sing and dance to Glenn Marais and the Mojo Train!  I think we'll want to bring lawn chairs, and maybe a snack and a beverage. There will be a food truck there if you want to get something fun.  We are asked to bring a Food Bank Donation. We'll head down together on foot from the Park Street entrance at 6:15. Hopefully that will be early enough to get parking behind the church and get a spot to sit at Riverwalk Commons.  We'll walk across Main Street, down the stairs to the parking lot, and across towards the community centre, unless some of us have issues with stairs, then we'll go down the ramp at the next block that ends up just behind the community centre.  Wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather (should be perfect, not too warm, not too cool). I'm a big fan of these free summer concerts. Can't wait...

Our dance theme turned into a Taylor Swift theme!  We started off looking at my Pride Affirming playlist which I filled with a lot of dance music, some of it recommended by Kai, for the potluck and dance party Saturday night. So, there’s some Christian dance music on there, and there are songs from different eras, so that it’s inclusive of all ages.  My list was sorted in alphabetical order by Title. First, I played a dance remix of John Legend’s All of Me, and then the original. We listened briefly to APT, but then saw Dancing Queen, and loved singing with ABBA, music from our era, and I remembered that Madonna had sampled that ABBA song (Gimme, gimme, gimme from 1979) in her dance song, Hung Up in 2005 on her Confessions on a Dance Floor album. That sent us down a rabbit hole to Taylor Swift somehow. And, you’ll see we gave Ian (new to Taylor Swift, idk how) a big overview of Taylor Swift’s varied styles of music, especially some fun songs to dance and sing with. We talked b...

 La-las are my favourite thing! I love when a song has a good strong section of nonsense syllables that anyone can sing. We’ve already spent a couple weeks in my “La-las and Other Nonsense” playlist in the past, and I’m sure we’ll spend many happy Thursdays here in la-la land again.  I was inspired by last week’s last song, Meghan Trainor’s Good to Be Alive , with its very catchy Oh-oh oh chorus. This week, my list didn’t disappoint. We started the evening off with talk of our struggles and aches and pains, rodents, and news of the roof leaking, bubbling, plaster falling. We ended up laughing and dancing in our seats (we should have stood up, but aches…) and wonderfully uplifted. Happy memories of our youth, courting and dancing, concerts and discos, singing more nonsense because we didn’t know the lyrics: the music brings back such joy.  Na-na Hey-hey Kiss Him Goodbye by The Supremes, by Steam, and by Bananarama were all not as good as our memories of yelling that ch...