Trinity Newmarket Singers

We missed a bunch of people today, but had a great time, 4 of us connected to my choir. Choosing an era instead of a topic made this an easy playlist for me. Apple Music has several playlists of music from the 1970s. I simply chose one. Normally, we sing songs from a playlist which I create, choosing each song for it's connection to the theme, and hopefully connection to us. Last week, when we sang from my Songs with Dogs, Cats, Pets playlist, we noticed that several songs we liked were from the 1970s and wondered whether we should look closer at the that decade. So, that became our theme this week.  Sure enough, we found that we remembered and liked most of the songs on our list today. We laughed about not remembering the words, or never having known the words aside from the chorus, or being surprised that we misheard/misunderstood the lyrics, as we often do. Memories of our lives at the time and our feelings about things in the past arose and inspired conversations about all kind...

It was a lovely afternoon spent in lovely company. I baked raisin bran muffins earlier and brought them with a few slices of a pumpkin loaf I baked earlier in the week. We didn't manage to eat much because we sang a lot today, and had some lively conversation as well. Who knew there were so many songs about pets, or on the theme of pets ?! Some songs were obvisously not about cats or dogs, but about people (What's New Pussycat?), and some really had nothing to do with pets (Year of the Cat), while others were about pets but sounded like they were about people (Martha, My Dear). We had fun looking up the year of release of some of these songs. How little were we when we first heard these songs?! So many songs were from the 1970s.  I'm thinking, for something different, to look at a playlist of 1970s songs.   I hope to see you next week. For now, here's what we sang and listened to on Feb. 26th: Always on My Mind and I Want a Dog by the Pet Shop Boys Cat's in the Cra...

I'm sorry, folks, this flu (or whatever it is) has clobbered me and I'm now on my 6th day of being knocked out. My nose and throat are still productive, and I don't want to share this with anyone. We were going to add pets to our Home and Family theme, for Valentine's Day and Family Day. We love our pets and they become family members. I have a playlist with songs with animals. Let's hold on to that for next week.   Just one example of a Pet song: Martha My Dear by the Beatles  If you're ever in need of a sing-along and you're alone, head over to YouTube, and you'll find so many songs with lyrics, and even playlists based on artists. So, you could search for "Beatles songs with lyrics" or "Chicago songs with lyrics", or songs in an era or decade, or individual songs that you like, with lyrics.  Here's something fun to listen to: a Beatles medley by Walk off the Earth. It's frustrating for me to not be able to sing, but I can ...

Our theme was Home and Family, as we're looking ahead to the Family Day weekend, and also keeping in mind that Saturday is Valentine's Day.  While Valentine's Day often looks like a romantic thing, it's really a love thing. In my experience, it's been about Family and Friends more than for Lovers. All the Moms and Grandmas get special cards and maybe flowers, handmade gifts, chocolates. There's a special family dinner, maybe in a restaurant or maybe it's Dad's favourite dish. Every kid in your class, your teams, your teacher, coach, the bus driver, all the people you love get a message of love from you on a card that you made or picked out. Valentines Day changed as I went through the changes of the different seasons of life, but mother, mine or myself, and family have been constant. Family is the thing I love most; my family are the people I love most. Home is where we are together.   My Home and Family playlist starts off with 5 different songs called ...

Thank you, Everyone, for a lovely birthday afternoon! It was so beautiful, the cards, the cake, the decorations, everything. I had a wonderful birthday. Thank you for putting up with me wanting to sing songs that you hadn't heard before, but I hope you liked them. It wasn't easy choosing the songs to sing. I love so many, and I can't rank them. The theme was "Renate's Favourites" because it was my birthday. You'll find them in the list, in case you want to look them up, or find out more about the performers. Robyn suggested doing everyone's birthday like this, so it must have been alright. I usually try to use songs that many people will know, or that are so popular that everone knows. Occasionally, I'll throw in something that I know only one or two of you will know, but this time, I was pretty sure you wouldn't know a few of my songs.  Here are some of the songs I love to sing most, that we sang together yesterday, in alphabetical order: Bohe...

What a lovely time we had!  I love when we go off topic and search for songs that mean something to us at the moment. We did that a couple times today. Our theme was winter, and I have tons of songs on my list, but the world is a little distracting these days.  We had a good strong start with Let it Go, from Frozen. We watched a video with lyrics instead of just having the song play with lyrics on Apple Music. It was fantastic. I love that scene in the movie. So powerful. The song alone is powerful, but the beautiful animation and the icy scenery, the dress, the movement, gestures, everything was excellent. I was reminded of the song Golden from K-Pop Demon Hunters, so we watched the official lyric video of that song too.  While we did sing a few winter songs, and talked about the wonderful feeling of flying weightlessly that we get when we're skating (like River) or skiing, or swimming. That wonderful feeling of being free and apart from our worries and our everyday live...