Our wonderful Director, Julie Sykes, has been working on completing the Director Certification (DCP) program since accepting the Interim Musical Director role in the spring of 2023! Less than two years later, she has completed all the modules, and let it be known, she aced them all!! This is BIG! Julie has dedicated MANY hours - some 250 in fact - OVER AND ABOVE her other Director related duties and deserves a HUGE round of applause!
Photographs of our choruses help us to preserve our memories, document our history, share our stories and connect us to one another. Photographs also help us express our creativity and inspire us to embrace our individuality when we sing.
We started January 2025 off with an incredible two-day coaching session led by Erin Howden. She then challenged us, teased us, frowned at us, laughed with (and at) us, and at times, literally squealed and jumped for joy as we responded positively to what she was teaching us.
By Nancy Lambrechts
CSC wrapped up 2024 with an amazing party! There were gnomes. There were lumberjacks. There were Divas. There were gingerbread people. There was the Peanuts gang. Oh my!
There was a wonderful potluck dinner with tons of delicious food. Groan....
By Susan Marshall (second from in group of 5 First Timers)
Our Class of 2024 was on top of the world as we took to the risers with the Canadian Showtime Chorus to sing in our 40th Anniversary Show, A Musical Mosaic.
Our wonderful Region provides us with the opportunity of competing in VLQs at Fall Music School. As luck would have it, all members of Sound Jam (combined Sound Decision and PBnJ quartets, from Canadian Showtime Chorus) registered for Music School and decided to ‘compete’. Ahem! Then – the fun began.
By Jeanne Wegner
My experience with the Canadian Showtime Chorus began last September, when a little bird in our campground came to me and said, “Jeanne, I know that you love singing, especially singing in different harmonies. “Shirley”, you would be interested in participating in our 6 week membership drive in January, for our ladies’ barbershop, a cappella chorus.” Well, this announcement definitely peaked my interest. I thought to myself, “Hmm, I’ll have to look into this…”
"Wendy is first on the left in the first row behind the orchestra."
… Overwhelmed to Overjoyed (Freude! as He himself would say).
While classical music isn’t really my style, when an opportunity to sing with the Ottawa Choral Society for the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s presentation of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony arises, who passes that up?
In merely 16 days, with just 9 rehearsals, 118 singers accomplished what initially seemed impossible, learning the notes and words to what we commonly know as “Ode to Joy”, but in German.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, not Christmas but our Sweet Adeline of the Year celebrations!
This honour is awarded annually to a member who has contributed greatly to the general well-being of Canadian Showtime Chorus. She is dedicated and conscientious and shows friendship towards the chorus and individuals.
Meet Kelly Edwards, our newly minted SAOTY. Kelly was recognized at rehearsal on June 18th. Let her reign begin.
Here are some of the great comments from her nominators.
What could be more exciting than preparing for a show? Nothing! Canadian Showtime Chorus is in the planning stages of our first show since 2018 and we have titled it “A Musical Mosaic, Celebrating 40 years of Harmony”.
We have a name. We have a date, November 16, 2024. We have a venue. We also have an evolving plan of how to best celebrate and represent our 40th Anniversary with Sweet Adelines. Songs have been chosen, with a shout out to nostalgia as well some new music as well. What a pot pourri.
Canadian Showtime Chorus is very excited to welcome to the risers 7 new members! They started with us in January and have now passed their auditions. Our sound is really benefiting from the addition of their lovely voices.
Welcome to: Susan Marshall, Genevieve Robert, Debra Scarpelli, Elena Burbyga, Samantha Harrison-Coe, Audrey Lemieux and Jeanne Wegner.
