Skip to main content

Sing-along Café 2024-10-03

It was a lovely evening in lovely company! We were blessed with a still-warm apple and honey cake made by Robin for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Happy New Year! We have so many opportunities to make a new start, to close a door behind us and look with hope into a new and better future. Here is another door opening. Let’s sing even more, and laugh even more starting now.
Our la-la theme is so much fun! The things I enjoyed most were: Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance (Rah, rah-ah-ah-ah; Roma, roma-ma, Gaga, ooh-la-la) and The Oak Ridge Boys’ Elvira (um-poppa-um-poppa, mow, mow). But, there were so many fun things to sing in all the songs. And, as always, there were so many surprising lyrics to talk about!
We will probably have another Thursday evening on the la-la theme in the future, but next week, we’ll do something else: Songs of Home and Family.
We started this playlist last year, but there are so very many good songs about home and family, so we’ll look at it again now that Thanksgiving is coming up and people will be gathering with family on that long weekend. 
Here’s a selection of the songs we sang and listened to and talked about:
  • I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers and by JJ Heller (we love her!)
  • Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye by Steam (I’m adding the Supremes and Bananarama versions to my playlist)
  • Everyday People by Sly & The Family Stone
  • Something Just Like This by Cold Play (I love this song)
  • Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by the Crash Test Dummies (difficult, sad)
  • Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65 (actually sad-blue)
  • Sing, Sing, Sing by The Andrews Sisters and by Louis Prima (Yes! Sing!)
  • The Shoop Shoop Song by Cher and by Betty Everett 
  • Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing by Stevie Wonder and by Tori Kelly (from the movie Sing!)
  • Cake by the Ocean by The Jonas Brothers
  • All Night Long by Lionel Ritchie (*are those words or nonsense?!) 
  • Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega (interesting verses, easy chorus)
* some words and some gibberish! "Karamu" is a Swahili word for a party accompanied by a feast; "Liming" is a Caribbean term for getting together, and "Fiesta" is Spanish for party.'Tambo liteh sette mo-jah!'? Lionel Ritchie said: "I made it up on the spot. Now I think that 'Jambo' might have a meaning in Swahili (it does- "hello")"


Not on the playlist...Na-na-na by One Direction


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Singing Together in July and August

I posted this on my YRCC blog, and I think it applies to my Trinity Singers too. While we’re not singing together in July and August, please find opportunities to sing in other places and with other people.  You can always sing in your car and in your kitchen. You can accept all invitations to cottages, camping, and beach days, and do some campfire singing. Or, sing while you paddle around in a lake. Sound carries over water, so have some buddies join you if you’re not comfortable with a solo performance.  Orchestrate some backyard sing-alongs if you can.  Singing outdoors in the summer is an opportunity you don’t want to miss. I’ve enjoyed the free concerts in Aurora and Newmarket in the past. They have ‘tribute bands’ who perform all the hits you know, and you’ll want to sing and dance along. (would be nice if they projected the lyrics for us, because we're used to having those words now) I’ve added these concerts to my YRCC Calendar to encourage my choristers to go. I’...
Post a Comment
Read more

June 5th, 2025 Sing-along Café is Outdoors!

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...
Post a Comment
Read more

Summer Break 2025 Starts Early for Sing-Along Café

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. 
Post a Comment
Read more