This coming Tuesday is choir rehearsal- 2nd September 6.45pm for 7pm. First rehearsal of Spring – ready for upcoming Spring Sing in Stanthorpe last Sunday in September! (that’s a lot of alliteration)
if you see this post in time – Australian voices have a Saturday afternoon concert.in St Luke’s 3pm – always stunning music.
This Tuesday 19th August is a rehearsal – usual time 6.45pm for 7pm start.
Lots of fun last Sunday at Drayton Villas. The audience were very generous with their praise and donations. Very grateful for their support.
* Don’t forget to register for All Together Now at Stanthorpe
* check emails for the link to new music which we will start working on at our next rehearsal.
Here is the music repertoire and order 🙂
The Journey
Riversong
Wild Mountain Thyme
Dream Keeper
Brass Quartet – 7 short pieces
All the Pretty Little Horses
At this Table
J’entends le Moulin
Bring me Sunshine
encore: Sweet Caroline
Tuesday 29th July is our next rehearsal – 6.45pm for a 7pm start. Look forward to seeing you there.
If you were unable to download the Spring Sing file – try the new word doc file labelled: Stanthorpe Spring Sing.25 and pop the date into your diary – 28th September.
Here is the information for Sunday 28th September
I hope this finds you all well and enjoying your singing on these chilly Winter nights.
I thought I’d just email you to let you know (if you haven’t heard already) that I’lm running a series of rehearsals starting this Sat July 19, 2025 from 10am – 5pm at Choral House (Toowoomba Choral Society’s rehearsal venue)
for our forthcoming concert at the magnificent QPAC Concert Hall on Sun Nov 9, 2025 entitled:
The Greatest Show Choir!
You guessed it – the repertoire is Broadway musicals 🙂
The rehearsals are also an opportunity for PD as a lot of my work is focused on vocal technique – no matter what the repertoire is.
This project is a collaboration with QPAC and my arts charity – Play It Forward, to help support music making and choral singing in regional areas of Qld with the opportunity to perform in our premiere performance space in Brisbane (it’s nowhere as beautiful as your Empire Theatre – I confess).
I be grateful if you would be able to help spread the word amongst the wonderful Darling Downs community – here’s a link with all the details for those who are interested:
www.playitforward.org.au/events/tgsctoowoomba
Many thanks for your time – I really appreciate your support and wish you all the best with your own joyful singing!
Jonathon Welch AM
Founding Artistic Director
Play It Forward
www.playitforward.org.au
Our rehearsals will start again this Tuesday 15th – usual time and place – 6.45pm for 7pm @ DeMolay. Pretend it isn’t cold and come on out and warm up by singing with friends. Bring all your recent music and Caroline will surprise us.
Some dates coming up this term – Drayton Villas concert Sunday 10th August & Spring Sing with James Cuskelly in Stanthorpe Sunday 28th September. Pop the dates in your diary now 🙂
For those unable to download the Song list so you can have the 3 brackets of music in order, here it is:
Set 1 – Riversong, At This Table, All the Pretty Horses, The Journey, Wild Mountain Thyme
Set 2 – Dream Keeper, Bring Me Sunshine,
Combined Song – Sweet Caroline
On Saturday a pre-concert band and choir rehearsal will be 3.15 – 3.50pm.
Then 4.30pm concert as advertised on the beautiful Voices, Valves and Vibes poster.
Our heartfelt condolences go out to Caroline, whose 100year old mum passed away this past week. Caroline will be coming to the rehearsal and concert after a very big week.
This coming Tuesday evening (17th) @ 6.45pm – 8.30pm will be our final rehearsal before the combined concert. All the details and music order can be found in the previous post. Looking forward to a great concert with family and friends on Saturday afternoon 21st – 4pm. Details about the dinner following the concert will be discussed at the rehearsal.
Following up the invitation from Brisbane choir – SongShine to join them for a choir camp, the dates have been postponed until October as many of their own choir could not make the July date. We are cordially invited to join and details will follow early next term.
Please share the poster with friends and family for our upcoming concert. And see attached the running sheet for concert items. Looking like a most enjoyable afternoon of music. And all welcome to stay on for our social get together after at the Drayton pub.
Thankyou to Lesley who worked hard with us at the last rehearsal – and don’t forget to do a little home practice before our final rehearsal next week.
Congratulations to The Accidentals on an amazing show last week – including several of our Choirbolical musical directors!!!
