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My Singing Night at Trinity 2024 Thursday, April 4th

What to call this evening of music, connection, harmony, and spirit?


This "My Singing Night", our theme was Easter and Spring. In the theme of new beginnings, we spent time talking about a re-branding. We tried to come up with some new names for these wonderful Thursday evening singing and fellowship gatherings. 

What should we call this? Armchair Singers? Songs and Friends? Thursday Playlist? I'll come up with something. 

We'll have a new poster and we have this new blog-website. Hopefully, we'll get some more people coming out. It's such a good thing! 

We talked about the unique nature of what we do every Thursday evening together. Singing, but not choir, and not performing, just singing together like a sing-along, but there's no guitar, nobody playing piano. We're singing along like in the car, singing to the radio or a playlist. Yeah, it's like that, like playing your playlist in the car and everyone sings along. But, we have the words on the big screen so we don't have to have them memorized. 

We sang along to these songs and talked about them a little. At the end of the night we turned off the lights and danced a little with Donna Summer to Spring Affair for our Spring and Easter theme, and to Total Eclipse of the Heart in honour of Monday's (nearly, here in Newmarket) Total Eclipse of the Sun! 

Here's the list of songs we sang: 

  • Hallelujah Chorus by  The Choir & Orchestra of Pro Christe
  • Celebrate Jesus by Don Moen
  • Tell The World by Hillsong United
  • Hymns Medley: Amazing Grace, etc by Anthem Lights
  • Hallelujah by Phillips, Craig & Dean
  • Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
  • Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles
  • I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash and by Jimmy Cliff
  • Good Day Sunshine by The Beatles
  • April Showers by Bing Crosby
  • Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks
  • Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra
  • A Day in the Life by The Beatles
  • Sunshine on My Shoulders by John Denver
  • I’m into Something Good by Herman’s Hermits
  • Happy Together by The Turtles
  • We’ve Only Just Begun by the Carpenters
  • Windy by The Association
  • Monday, Monday by The Mamas & The Papas
  • Closing Time by Semisonic
  • Turn! Turn! Turn!  by The Byrds
  • Total Eclips of the Heart (Dance Mix) by Nicki French
  • Spring Affair by Donna Summer


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