Welcome to
Hamilton Sings! Community Choir
We are a non-audition, mixed-voice choir for adults and older youth. Our members may be new to singing or to choirs, or they may bring lots of musical experience. Everyone wants a fun and friendly place to make music together.
There is no audition! Choir membership includes healthy, functional voice coaching, and musical skills development.
Saturday Choir
Saturday’s Choral Connections
Sue Crowe Connolly and Hanna Bech Mathieson have prepared a winter 2021 season of song, delivered to your home and desktop through Zoom technology. Though temporarily absent from our traditional rehearsal space of the Hamilton Boys and Girls Club, we’re delighted to take a virtual and vital place in your living room.
Some highlights of our 2021 winter program:
- Real connections with your music-loving friends
- Focus on musical skill building at your own pace
- Explore various musical traditions such as Quebec music history & culture
- Dynamic instruction includes possible workshops led by local and international artists
- Member access to instructional materials includes voice files and sheet music
Rehearsals commence on Saturday, January 23rd at 10:00 AM, and continue until Saturday, March 13th. We’ll take March 20th off and be back again for the second half of our winter term on March 27th. These sessions are now open to all interested individuals, but please register so that we can contact you with information about the week’s upcoming session.
Saturday Choir
Saturday Choir
Normally, our rehearsals for the Saturday choir are on Saturday mornings from 9:45 AM – 12:15 PM, with two sessions each year. Rehearsals take place at Sherman Boys and Girls Club (formerly St. Peter’s HARRRP), 705 Main St. E., Hamilton, Ontario. Our music leaders are Sue Crowe Connolly and Hanna Bech Mathieson.
All of the following are subject to change, as regulations and health guidelines change:
- No musical experience is required.
- Our Autumn session for the Saturday choir is planned to begin on a Saturday in September, from 9:45 AM – 12:15 PM, and will continue weekly through to the first week of December, 2020.
- Our first rehearsal in September, 2020 will be open for everyone to try out the choir experience.
- We will then close registration for this Fall session.
Saturday Choir
Saturday Choir
Rehearsals for the regular Saturday choir are on Saturday mornings from 9:45 AM – 12:15 PM, with two sessions each year. Rehearsals take place at Sherman Boys and Girls Club (formerly St. Peter’s HARRRP), 705 Main St. E., Hamilton, Ontario. Our music leaders are Sue Crowe Connolly and Hanna Bech Mathieson.
- No musical experience is required.
- Our Winter session for the Saturday choir began on Saturday, January 11th 2020, from 9:45 AM – 12:15 PM.
- Our first three rehearsals on Saturday, January 11th , 18th, and 25th were open for everyone to try out the choir experience.
- On Saturday, January 25th at 12:00 midnight, we closed registration for this Winter session.
- Rehearsals then continue weekly through to May 24th, 2020.
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- Ballad of Sam Lawrence
- YouTube video
- Butterfly
- Bass part heard with tenor, alto and soprano accompaniment
- Call My Name
- YouTube video
- Carry On
- Soprano, alto, tenor & bass
- Concert recording: 2015
- Let Me Go
- Soprano, alto
- Tenor chorus, bass chorus
- Tenor & bass verses 2,3,4
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- Melody
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- Verse 2 & chorus: soprano, alto, tenor, & bass
- Me Too
- Soundcloud recording
- Soprano & bass
- Alto & bass
- Tenor & bass
- People Can Change
- YouTube Video
- Verses & chorus: soprano, alto, tenor, & bass
- The Colour
- Link to Facebook video
- Viva la Musica
- Concert recording: 2015
- Watching the Apples Grow
- Stan Rogers recording
Hamilton Spectator, Jan. 30, 2020
now on the site
For Choir Members
sound files, lyrics, sheet music, even some video
Choral Connections
Winter & Spring 2021
New session material arrives regularly.
- Solstice Carol
- Double Sledder Lad
- Tiny Perfect Moles
- Beidh Aonach Amarach
- The Ballad of Sam Lawrence
- God Bless the Grass
- Temagami Round
- Mo Li Hua
- Merge With the River
- Minun Kultani
- Fire in My Heart
- Bella Ciao
- North of Superior
- Tickle Cove Pond
- Dona Nobis Pacem
sound files, lyrics, sheet music, even some video
Choral Connections
Winter 2021
New session material arrives weekly…
- Viva la Musica Michael Praetorius
- May You See Diamonds Alison Burns
- God Bless the Grass Malvina Reynolds
- Butterfly (melody review in Eb) Hanna Bech
- Amavolovolo
- Falling Hanna Bech
- Watching the Apples Grow Stan Rogers
Hamilton Sings welcomes its newest sponsor!
We’ve been singing together
all through this pandemic season!
And we’ll be back in the fall.
Watch for announcements
here, in your e-mail, or on the
Hamilton Sings! Facebook page.
See you in September!
Our home, the Sherman Boys and Girls Club, is closed for the forseeable future. So we cannot rehearse there again until circumstances change.
On Saturday mornings from September to May, Hanna and Sue led choir members in the Choral Connections sessions, with warmups, a sing-along, and some new music.
Hamilton Sings! spring concert, “Songs of Canada at 150 Plus” took place at Christ’s Church Cathedral, James St N. in Hamilton. This selection, Dave Gould’s “Starlight Tours”, was performed by Dave, accompanied by the choir and Stephen Fuller on violin.
AGM is Coming!
Tomorrow is our last “official” Choral Connections for this session, so come out and we’ll sing through some of the songs we’ve covered since January. If you have a particular request from our past let us know. Hanna has a Korean song for us and may attempt to revisit some tunes from bygone days.
What a Calming Mantra
Fellow Earthlings, The earth the air the fire the water return return return return. The earth the air the fire the water return return return return.
Solstice Carol Project & a Treat
Hi Everyone, Our long anticipated choir video project of Solstice Carol is at hand. Marija has kindly sent you all the details and here’s a reminder of our current time lines:
Video Project Update & Sign-up Details
Hello Songsters! On behalf of Sue and Hanna, I am excited to be reaching out with details about the Solstice Carol video project that’s been announced at the last couple of Choral Connections and in Brenda’s weekly news digest.
The Vowel Called E
Hey Gang – Last week we learned more about that vowel called E and it’s special relationship with falsetto and the chest register. We had fun with The Earth Is Our Mother, Tiny Perfect Moles, Skye Boat Song, Maid on the Shore, Butterfly, and others. Shape notes and ideal choir section ratios were also discussed. Plans are developing now to make tomorrow just as interesting, so don’t be late!
“It’s my bank account Doc.”
Hi Everybody Psssst! Is anybody out there? I’m stuck in a Covid-19 head fog and can barely tell if I’m breathing. . . Not to make light of the suffering of the sick and those overwhelmed by their care and welfare – that’s all too real.