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!!!
Here is an invitation from a Brisbane community choir that looks fabulous. If you are interested please make contact ASAP with your expression of interest as they hope to finalise their anticipated numbers next week. Greg who is organising the camp would love us to share in this weekend.
Dear Choirbolical
I’m writing on behalf of Songshine Choir – a similar community choir to yours that meets weekly in Brisbane. https://www.songshinechoir.org/
As part of our tradition, we have an annual weekend get-away (Choir Camp!), where we have singing workshops, laugh a lot, eat a lot, and go for walks – with a campfire sing-along at night. This is usually led by our main conductor, but usually also including guest conductors. This year our guest conductor it’s the fabulous Imogen Wolf from Lismore https://www.facebook.com/ImogenWolfSongMusic/
This year we are going to the PCYC venue ‘Bornhoffen’ – in the Numinbah Valley in the Gold Coast hinterland. https://www.pcyc.org.au/youth-and-community/leadership-development-centres/bornhoffen-leadership-learning-development-centre/
We often meet several times / year with other choirs in Brisbane to share singing workshops and performances. This email is to extend an invitation to any interested members to join with us for the camp. We’re not strangers! I am friends with a number of Choirbolical folk and Deb and Michael used to be in Songshine before moving to Toowoomba.
Dates: 9am Saturday 12 July to 1pm Sunday
Arrival: Many will arrive Friday evening for dinner (we pay for a 2 night minimum anyway)
Catering: We self-cater and share around the food preparation tasks
Cost: as there are fixed costs (for venue and conductors), per person will vary according to numbers. If we have 20 people the cost will be around $170pp, or if we have 25 it will be around $140pp (excl food)
Program: 4 mini choral workshops /on Saturday (interspersed with morning / afternoon tea and lunch) and probably 2 sessions on Sunday, followed by early lunch and depart by 1pm
Please contact me with any questions etc
Greg Oliver
0413 055 703
This coming Tuesday will be our usual rehearsal. 6.45pm for 7pm. See the last post for music. We are looking forward to having Lesley as our musical director for the night while Caroline ‘bumps in’ for the Empire show this week “Things left in books” with the Accidentals – tickets available for Wednesday & Thursday nights!
On a sad note we have lost one of our most loyal fans and groupie, Bruce Stewart. Bruce has been to every concert and performance for years and years, from Tasmania to Tenterfield to our most recent concert afternoon. Margaret would like Choirbolical members to know you are welcome to attend his funeral at St David’s Presbyterian Church, Mary St Mt Lofty on Monday June 2nd at 11.30am.
Tuesday May 20th – 6.45pm for a 7pm start. Look forward to seeing everyone there. When you sign in could you also please indicate your intentions for coming along to the upcoming combined concert with Drayton Brass Band – Saturday June 21st – 4pm at Drayton Hall and dinner after at the Drayton pub for those who can.
Knowing your intentions now will greatly assist Caroline in planning the repertoire. So far on the list are some favourites and some new music – something for everyone to join in:
All the Pretty Horses; Riversong; Dream Keeper; At this Table; Bring me Sunshine; The Journey; Wild Mountain Thyme.