Notes from yesterday's singing + meeting

[Stéph Meunier]

Hi all,

Here's how things went at yesterday's singing at Bells Corners United Church:

We had a nice lesson-type singing session yesterday with lots of newer singers, going through songs part by part to learn them. 10 singers sang around 16 songs from the 1991 edition! I hear minutes might be available on the Facebook group soon... Thanks to Chris who brought delicious pumpkin chocolate chip cake!

We also held a short meeting to go over the survey answers I received. See a summary of the answers here or let me know if you want the breakdown by email.

Next steps and help needed! 
What we understood from the survey is that 

• More people would be able to participate if the sessions were in a more central location accessible by public transit and with parking available.
• The current location is not a dealbreaker.
• There is enthusiasm for more opportunities to learn and to sing.
• Sunday afternoons are the best time for most people, followed by Sunday evenings.

We also decided to put some effort into recruiting new singers through 

• creating a flyer to distribute in music schools, places of worship and more locations
• adding content to the Facebook group (video clips of us singing, for example)
• occasional demonstrations of shape note singing. 

We've committed to: 

• Steph, Owen and Anabel will design a flyer
• Steph will send out a description of what is needed from a venue to host our regular (monthly or biweekly) so you can help with contacting potential venues. 

We need help: Do you have time to call or email a few venues? We need one or many lovely people to do that by next month, if possible. Thank you!

Next singing: We will sing again on Sunday, November 15, from 2-4:30 pm, at the Bells Corners United Church. I've created a Facebook event and a little visual to share with folks outside of this group: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Cu4GHfXyS/ 

PS. If you want more singing, join us in Wakefield every Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at 45, Wakefield-Heights Rd. (Fairbairn Heritage House). We sing in the house! If you can get to Hull for 5:45 PM, I can offer you a lift to and from, just email me.

Thanks and take care! 

Stéph Meunier 

[Stéph Meunier]

EDIT: We'll be singing on Sunday, November 16. 

Apologies for the mistake (again! 😅🫣)

Steph

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[Chris Kasurak]

I jotted down the songs we sang yesterday, hopefully i got them all correct:

448b - The grieved Soul

207 - Louisiana

63 - Coronation

122 - All is well

278 - Traveling Pilgrim

569b - Sacred Throne

32b - Distress

268 - David's Lamentation

59 - Holy Manna

209 - Evening Shade

159 - Wondrous Love

29b - Tribulation

282 - I'm going home

133 - Hebrew Children

62 - Parting Hand