We have a few rehearsals before our Spring Sing & celebration weekend – SEE PREVIOUS POST to register and please forward our emailed invitation & registration link to anyone you remember who has had connections to Choirbolical over the years 🙂

This coming Tuesday and the following Tuesday will be early start rehearsals & include past guest musical directors:

Tues 30th August 7pm – a video rehearsal with Astrid. Music – Can’t Buy Me Love is available under the Repertoire Tab. Morgan is not available for this rehearsal so we will use other rehearsal files to finish the evening.

Tues 6th September 7pm – Tess (our very first musical director) will be our in-person guest until 8pm along with members of Toowoomba Taiko drummers. Music – Keep Your Lamps and Panis Angelicus – past members will have purchased hard copies & we have some copies still in a file. This will be followed by a short rehearsal of other repertoire with Morgan.

Our final past musical director Margaret will be part of one of the next 3 rehearsals. Music – What a Wonderful World – again past members will have copies and we will find more.

Look forward to having you join us.

Please use the following link to register for Choirbolical’s Spring Sing events.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrj1_GtgnX3LFiAhxGbhKAvM5d0Z7HN-wRCoMENq4t2bzXkA/viewform?usp=pp_url

The first page is for individual registrations to our 21st Spring Sing – Sunday 23rd October – open to anyone interested in having a wonderful day of singing with James Cuskelly OAM (our very first workshop musical director 21yrs ago) and Astrid Jorgensen (a past long term musical director of Choirbolical and now of Pub Choir fame). Choirs who wish to register as a group are also most welcome – please email Lee for a group registration form: [email protected]

The second page of the above form will take you to registrations for our 21st Celebration sing, barefoot bowls & BBQ party – Saturday 22nd October – open to all who have ever sung with Choirbolical, past or present. Come and join the party, reminisce, sing some past repertoire, catch up with friends and our musical directors from 21 years of singing as a choir.

DETAILS of venues, times and payments are on the forms. 🙂 🙂

A reminder that this Tuesday 16th will be a regular rehearsal night 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start.

Organising for our Choirbolical 21st birthday celebrations are well underway. We are currently finalising flyers, a dropbox for you to upload any memorabilia and registration details.

For all past and present Choirbolicals: Saturday 22nd Oct from 1pm at Toowoomba North Bowls Club is our very own party! – rehearsing selected past repertoire, barefoot bowls & bbq. $25 / $15 for partners joining bowls & bbq. Kids free. Whether you have been at choir recently or not, do come along and join our catch up and reminiscing of good singing times.

21st SPRING SING for Choirbolical & community choirs or individuals: Sunday 23rd Oct from 8.30am at City Golf Club – workshops with James Cuskelly & Astrid Jorgensen, followed by a 2.30pm concert. $25 Spread the word folks 🙂

Australian Voices is once again hosting an event this Saturday afternoon at St Luke’s. Check details here. http://www.theaustralianvoices.com/concerts

And a free sacred music music workshop and concert at St James.
For more information and to register go to https://rscmaustralia.org.au/uncategorized/qld-saturday-music-live-toowoomba/

The rehearsal this week will start at 7pm with a virtual visit from Carla one of our previous choir directors who now lives and works in Sydney. She will be teaching one of our previous songs – A Million Nightingales – music will be supplied. This will be followed by our usual rehearsal with Morgan.

With just 12 weeks to our celebration weekend – start inviting friends, family and singers to join us on Sunday 23rd October for either the workshops or celebration Spring Sing concert at City Bowls Club. Don’t forget – past & present Choirbolical members are also invited to come to North Bowls Club for a sing on Saturday 22nd October and to bring family along to the barefoot bowls and dinner. Confirmation of the program and costs coming soon!

A regular rehearsal with Morgan will be held this Tuesday 19th July. 7.15pm for 7.30 start. While we all hope for the ongoing covid to disappear, it is sadly with us more than ever. To have the good fortune and fun of singing together, masks are most welcome and currently being encouraged in indoor settings. We will also continue to monitor CO2 levels at our rehearsals and of course encourage you to stay home if unwell listening to rehearsal tracks and music.

We have some wonderful rehearsals coming up in August & September with music to revisit from past directors ahead of our 21st Spring Sing weekend – put 22/23Oct on your calendar!

See you soon 🙂

This Tuesday is our regular choir rehearsal. 7.15 for 7.30pm. At 7.15pm we will start an early practice of Ave Verum the song choice from 2020 with Matt preparing for our Spring Sing .
Don’t forget there are wonderful tracks for Pemulwuy available. In other news, some of us were fit and able enough to make it to the Chilly Sing in Tenterfield and sing! We had an absolutely wonderful day and can highly recommend it for another year 🙂

see you Tuesday.

For those planning to go to Tenterfield on the weekend a short get together / practice at DeMolay is on this Tuesday28th at 5.30pm. Open at 5.15pm. 🙂

1. For those planning to go to Big Chilly Sing we plan to meet this coming Sunday at 2pm in the Botanical Gardens (near the cannon) for a sing through songs Lovely Day and crowd pleaser – Wellerman. At this stage there is a group of a dozen planning to go, (provided all are well we may be able to perform!) Some people may be looking for a lift to travel to Tenterfield – can you help? Text Marion 0417703794 to confirm attendance if you haven’t already, so numbers can be confirmed with organisers.
2. PEMULWAY practice tracks are now available under the Repertoire tab. Scroll down to find your track and SATB tracks kindly provided by Matt C. This song will again be on the rehearsal list next time – July 5th.
3. Another opportunity to sing as a choir will be in Esk – Saturday July 16th 1.30-5.30pm at an ANCAR Musical Esk-apade. A decision will be made if we attend as a choir or as individuals after our next rehearsal.

Stay well and warm everyone!

This Tuesday will be a regular rehearsal 7.15 for 7.30 start. Last rehearsal, ‘Lovely Day’ was sounding incredible so time to polish it up along with singing other music we are working on. The question is: Will we have enough Choirbolicals going to Tenterfield to be able to perform? Please come along on Tuesday if you are planning to go (AND if you are not planning to go!)

If there is a group for the Chilly Sing on Sunday 3rd July we will arrange some extra practices that suit the group.

What: The Chilly Sing

Presenters: James Cuskelly & Sandra Milligan

Where: Tenterfield State High School, Tenterfield

Times:  Registration 9:00 for a 9:30 start – concert at 3pm. Morning tea and lunch provided. 

Cost: $30/$20 Music available for download and previewing under Repertoire tab.