Trinity Newmarket Singers

I hope that 2025 brings Trinity some more singing friends. Can you help with that? Can you come? You don't have to be there every week, but it's fun. Do you know people who would enjoy singing with the choir and praise team on Sundays? Can you bring them with you?  We sing all kinds of music: traditional hymns (sometimes updated to more inclusive language) and contemporary Christian music from around the world found in our hymn books (Voices United and More Voices), and contemporary Christian music discovered by Kevin in other places.  We have lots of singing in our Sunday services, lots of beautiful and inspiring music. Having a choir lead the congregation is powerful and a long-standing tradition that we want to keep up.  I would love for our Thursday evenings to be bigger too. We sing for fun and fellowship, singing music we hear on the radio (and now on streaming services) arranged on playlists by theme. We sing along with John Denver, Doris Day, the Beatles, Sara McL...

 

We had our St. Nicholas evening last night, a week late because of the bad weather last week. I brought a festive plate of traditional treats (Bunter Teller) and some Stollen (German christmas fruit cake) and shared stories of how we celebrated Nikolaustag when I was little and then with my kids. We wondered about how St. Nick, Santa Claus, Kris Kringle and St. Nikolaus are all related.  We sang and listened to a variety of different genres of Santa songs by different artists. Sometimes sampling just a little bit of a version was enough (Little Michael Jackson is annoying, for example). We listened to a few German Christmas songs, and a couple French ones as well. It was a lovely evening in lovely company, as always.  Here is a sample of what we sang and listened to: Here Comes Santa Claus by Gene Autry  Jolly Old St. Nicholas by the Oxford St. Peter's Choir and by Alex Deleon Santa Baby by Michael Bublé and by the Good Lovelies Santa Claus is Coming to Town by the Jac...