SENIOR TREBLE FESTIVAL – SHOSHOLOZA!
FOR BRIO & ALLEGRIA CHOIRS
High Park Choirs is very excited to be taking part in Shosholoza!, a Senior Treble Festival including eight other choirs from Ontario including Agincourt Collegiate Institute Men’s Chorus, Bach Children’s Chorus, Bach Chamber Youth Choir, Guelph Youth Singers, Hamilton Children’s Choir, Mississauga Children’s Choir, St. Marys Children’s Choir, Toronto Children’s Chorus and Woburn Collegiate Institute Men’s Chorus.
This Festival will be centred around traditional African music, and our clinician, Scott Leithead, has travelled and worked extensively in Africa and with African choirs. He will be teaching both style and movement to African songs sung by the massed choirs. Scott will be bringing an African soloist and his own drummer, Tova Olsen, who will organize the percussion for our performance.
DETAILS:
DATE: Saturday, March 5, 2011
LOCATION: St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 227 Bloor Street East
TRANSPORTATION: It is the responsibility of each chorister to arrive on time and to be picked up after the event.
TIMING: 9:30am: Arrival
10:00 – 12:30pm: Rehearsals with all choirs
12:30 – 2:10pm: Lunch & Sound Check (you must bring a bagged lunch)
2:10 – 5:15pm: Rehearsals with all choirs
5:15 – 6:15pm: Supper including pizza, veggies, pop & dessert will be provided.
7:00 – 8:45pm: Concert (tickets will be available at the door for $15 for any parents who wish to attend the concert portion of the day).
8:45pm: Pick up from St. Paul’s Church
CLINICIAN & GUEST CONDUCTOR: Scott Leithead
Scott Leithead is a dynamic, exciting person to work with, and he clearly inspires others to share his zest for life. Scott’s Edmonton-based choirs, Kokopelli and Oran, have set a new, higher standard for the integration of exciting repertoire and movement with music. They have also twinned with choirs in South Africa and Namibia, and have established an African Projects Fund to help support those choirs. His choirs have worked tirelessly to raise money to assist African choirs to operate within Africa, and even for members of those choirs to travel to Alberta, to interact with his own choirs. Visit the Kokopelli website to see the astounding list of projects for African choirs for which Kokopelli has raised funds: www.kokopellichoirs.com
