Our last session of the year for WCC Juniors and Seniors will be Thursday May 8 from 6:30 – 8:00.  Pizza, oranges, cookies and drinks will be served.  If your chorister has allergies and cannot eat pizza, please send something along for them to eat in place of the pizza.  Please remember that choir uniforms need to be returned on this evening. We do collect all of the uniforms at the end of each choir year.  Uniforms do NOT need to be laundered prior to their return, as Mrs. Danysk launders all of them.

Our Pizza Party night is always great fun.  Choristers who wish, sign up ahead of time to perform whatever talent they wish to share with the group – skits, recitations, dances, songs, piano solos,  guitar etc, etc.  We look forward to seeing everyone for this year end celebration.

We wish all families a wonderful summer, and look forward to seeing everyone back at choir in September.  It has indeed been a wonderful year working with your choristers.  They are an amazing group with great focus, constant effort and wonderful talent.  They are thoughtful and caring with each other and show great respect at all times.  We are very pleased to have had the opportunity to work with them.

Westside Concert Choir’s Year End Concert will be held on Sunday, May 4th at 2:30 PM at McDougall United Church.  We look forward to sharing our Choirs’ Spring Repertoire with family and friends.  You will be very impressed with the amazing progress both choirs have made.  TYou will be impressed with these amazing young choristers.

We are excited to have both the Junior and Senior Choirs perform at “The Edward” on Thursday, May 1 from 7:00 PM to 8 PM.  The Seniors were so well received at our Christmas performance and we know the audience will enjoy having both of our choirs perform on this occasion as we celebrate Spring.

Viewing and performance space at The Edward is very limited so it would be preferable for you to drop off your chorister(s) at 6:30 and return to pick them up at 8:00 PM. We look forward to another remarkable performance by our amazingly talented choirs.

Congratulations go out to Westside Concert Choir’s choral director, Heather Nail, who was recently applauded and advertised on the Alberta Orff Canada, Alberta Chapter, Music for Children site.  She has been invited to teach a choral workshop for them on February  1, 2024.

We are so very proud of her work with The Westside Concert Choir, and,  it is clear that she is recognized well beyond our domain.    Below are the glowing remarks that invite choral music directors throughout the province to attend her workshop.

Say hello to this ray of sunshine: Heather Nail!

We are so excited to welcome Heather back to Edmonton for our February 1 workshop, Sing Say Move Play- Bring the Joy Everyday!

If you haven’t experienced the magic that is Heather before, be prepared for a workshop full of whimsical, fun, and top-notch activities that are sure to engage your students. She comes with years of musical experience and is also currently serving as the President of Carl Orff Canada.

Can’t wait until February? You can get some musical snippets and ideas from her Instagram account: @mrs_nail_music . Give her a follow! 

We are very excited to announce that Elizabeth DiMarino, director of Westside Concert Choir, Senior Division,  received the 2024 YYCMA’s Music Educator of the Year Award.  This award recognizes music educators (kindergarten through college, public and private schools or community ensembles) who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education and who demonstrate a commitment to improving music education in the schools and the Calgary community at large.This is indeed a huge honour, and so well deserved.  We are so proud of her and the work that she does with our choristers.  She is indeed an amazing young woman!