More Singers, Please! Trinity Singers Needed

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 McLachlan, Gordon Lightfoot, the Eagles, the Irish Rovers, all kinds of stuff from different eras and various genres. And, we talk about how the music makes us feel and what we think about the themes, memories conjured. If we had a need for a choir rehearsal on a Thursday, I would be happy to divide the Thursday evening into rehearsal and sing-along. Currently, the Tuesday morning and Sunday morning rehearsals seem to be enough.

Trinity Choir and Praise Team Dec.15

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Thursday, April 18 Sing-along Café Review

The theme for the evening was: Songs with La-las (and other nonsense: ooh, doo-dah, na-na, scoobie-doobie, bum-ba-bum, hey!). I call all of these little non-word lyrics la-las. They're often my favourite part of a song. Everyone can sing those words, usually. With scat singing, not usually, and with yodeling, not everyone. But, think about the Beatles song Hey Jude. At the end, everyone can sing along with the na-nas and some of us even like to harmonize with them. When my daughter was writing songs, I urged her to put some nonesense la-las in her songs. Don't worry about finding beautiful, powerful words for all the verses, or all the lines of the chorus. Sometimes, the lack of words makes a melody more powerful. Here's the list of songs we sang and listened to: Can't Get You Out of My Head by Kylie Minogue Everything by Michael Bublé Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin Hey Jude by the Beatles Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega &DNA De Do Do Do, De ...

Thursday, April 11 Sing-along Café Review

The theme for the evening was: Songs with Instumentals that We Sing. The easiest way to introduce this theme is "Sweet Caroline, BA-BA-BA!". Everyone sings along with the brass section, singing like trumpets. There's also a little instrumental interlude that I sing along with. I almost always sing la-las (or ba-ba, da-da, nya-nya, doo, dit, bop...) for the instrumental introductions and interludes in songs. I sing with classical instrumental music, joking that "I know all the words." I'm not the only one. You do this too. Here's the list of songs we sang: Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond A Taste of Honey by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Wipe Out by the Surfaris The Fool on the Hill by the Beatles I'll Never Fall in Love Again by Dionne Warwick Windy by The Association Careless Whisper by George Michael True by Spandau Ballet Down Under by Men at Work Feeling Good by Michael Bublé More Than a Feeling by Boston Baker Street by Gerry Raffer...

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