SING! Free: Concerts in Trillium Park

Schedule

Sat May 28 2022 at 12:00 pm to 05:00 pm

Location

955 Lake Shore Boulevard West,Toronto,M6K 3B9,CA | Toronto, ON

4 days full of free vocal performances at a beautiful location on the waterfront, and live streamed to our Youtube channel.
This free concert series runs on both weekends of SING! 2022, and features a wide range of performers, including choirs, spoken word poets, small vocal groups, live loopers, and more! Take in a beautiful view of the Toronto city skyline from Trillium Park (Ontario Place) while you enjoy a wide variety of local Toronto talent. Or, watch the concerts streamed on our YouTube channel from the comfort of your own home. In either case, no ticket required! Scroll down for Artist Bios.
May 28th
12:00pm Lunar Bloom
12:40pm Scott Jackson
1:20pm Jessica Mbangeni
2:00pm Ori Shalva
2:40pm Cantabile Chamber Singers
3:20pm Lunar Bloom
4:00pm Ori Shalva
May 29th
12:00pm Sing With Ukraine
12:40pm Pressgang Mutiny
1:20pm Enter A Cappella
2:00pm Sing With Ukraine
2:40pm Concreamus
3:20pm Enter A Cappella
4:00pm David Lane

June 4th
12:00pm Jordana Talsky & My Pop Choir
1:15pm Charlie Petch
1:55pm Unaccompanied Minors
2:35pm Janice Jo Lee
3:10pm Jordana Talksy & My Pop Choir
4:20pm Unaccompanied Minors
June 5th
12:00pm Lunar Bloom
12:40pm Pressgang Mutiny
1:20pm Ot Izvora
2:00pm Alissa Vox Raw
2:40pm Echo Women's Choir
3:20pm Pressgang Mutiny
4:00pm Duly Noted
*Please note, this event will be lawn seating only. We encourage you to bring blankets and lawn chairs!
Artist Bios (Alphabetical Order)
Alissa Vox Raw: Loop artist Alissa Vox Raw carefully crafts tapestries of sound live on stage using nothing but some pedals and her voice, stacking interlocking harmonies under a soaring lead. An eclectic artist, her sound can range from haunting and ethereal to upbeat danceable beats.
Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him): Charlie is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for SpeakNorth National Festival, winner of the Golden Beret Lifetime Achievement Award in Spoken Word with The League of Canadian Poets (2020), and founder of Hot Damn it's a Queer Slam. Petch is a touring performer, as well as a mentor and workshop facilitator. They launched their full length poetry collection "Why I Was Late" with Brick Books which got a "Best of 2021" from The Walrus, and filmed their libretto "Medusa's Children" with Opera QTO. They launched their spoken word show “No one’s special at the hot dog cart” with Theatre Passe Muraille in 2022. They have been featured on CBC's Q, the Toronto International Festival of Authors, and were long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2021.
Concreamus: Concreamus Chamber Choir is a 32 voice new music group dedicated to innovation in the choral arts and the creation and performance of excellent new works by young composers. The group is made up of singers, students, composers, and educators from around Toronto. Now in their second season, Concreamus has premiered 17 new works by a variety of young composers. Many of their premiere performances can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, and Youtube. Concreamus has collaborated with various musical organizations, including appearing in concert with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Green Room Music Collective, and making several appearances at the University of Toronto’s Composer Concert series.
David Lane: Formerly of the Juno-nominated quartet “Cadence”, David has been beatboxing for well over a decade, and has always enjoyed making silly sounds and exploring the limits of the human voice. He holds degrees in Music Performance and Education, and is a dynamic and engaging performer with over 7 years of performing experience and 500+ Educational workshops under his belt. He currently sings with the New York City based group “Duwende”. He has appeared on America’s Got Talent, toured with Grammy award winning-artists, opened for Jay Leno, and his two groups have garnered more than 5 million views on YouTube.
Duly Noted: Duly noted is Toronto’s all treble a cappella ensemble singing everything from madrigals to Justin Bieber and donating to charity while doing so.
Echo Women's Choir: "Echo loves to sing! Our 30-voice non-audition community choir is open to all women, ages, cultures and professions. We perform at city-wide grass-roots events, and hold concerts each December and May. We are proud to be singing together, building a strong, varied and vibrant culture and community. We are firmly dedicated to remaining accessible, with sliding scales for membership fees and concert tickets.
Echo begins a new session in September, rehearsing each Tuesday night at the Church of the Holy Trinity (beside the Eaton Centre), and the occasional Saturday.
If you would like to join us register on our website: ‘Singing with Echo’: www.echochoir.ca
Enter A Cappella: ‘Enter A Cappella’ is a vocal ensemble from Sir William Mulock Secondary School in Newmarket, Ontario. Made up of students in grades 10-12, the auditioned ensemble predominantly performs contemporary a cappella covers of modern pop and R&B songs. The group has consistently finished in the top 10 of the national CBC Music Class Challenge and has had the honour of recording with Grammy award winning songwriter Jimmy Webb and Motown legend Thelma Houston.
Janice Jo Lee: "Janice Jo Lee (she/they) is a folk artist and activist of Korean settler ancestry. She writes, performs and teaches in music, spoken word poetry and theatre. She is a hard femme, queer, radical, comedian, truth-teller and trickster. Her work explores gender justice, antiracism, friendship, community, ancestry and the Earth. Janice is interested in how storytelling can build bridges across differences and how to use art to build flourishing communities based in justice and joy.
Janice has worked as an educator for 10 years facilitating arts, anti-oppression and leadership workshops across Canada. She has facilitated anti-oppression workshops for University of Waterloo, Laurier Student Public Interest Research, Laurier Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto Faculty of Social Work, Folk Alliance International and Vancouver Poetry House.
In Waterloo Region, Janice Jo Lee was voted Best Performance Artist five years running from 2016 to 2020 (The Community Edition.) She was the City of Kitchener’s Artist in Residence in 2015 and created four cinepoems with the community called Folk Myths of Kitchener. She was the founding artistic director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Poetry Slam from 2011-2018. Currently she is writing a new musical satire and working on her upcoming album Ancestor Song.
Jordana Talsky: Jordana Talsky is a singer, songwriter and vocal looper who fuses multi-genre influences into her own sound. Her ethos is to incorporate digital means into live performance in an organic way, and with the loop machine she accompanies herself by voice, creating a choir on the spot with no pre-recorded parts. Jordana weaves unique interpretations of covers with original material. Her show exemplifies innovation from a female perspective, both as a one-woman looper and as a songwriter who fuses elements of jazz, soul and avant-pop into a distinctive sound that is quirky yet inviting. Her vocal loop song, “RUN”, was a judge’s pick for finalist in 2018 CBC Searchlight Contest (Canada). Other accolades include finalist placements in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition, Julian Award for Emerging Canadian Artists and Toronto Independent Music Awards. She has toured across Canada, Europe, and in 2019 was featured as an emerging artist at Summerfest, the world’s largest music festival in Milwaukee as part of her first U.S. tour. Jordana has enjoyed widespread worldwide airplay of her earlier releases “Neither of Either” and “Standard Deviation”. Her critically praised latest release, “Zahava” (2021), is an all-vocal looping EP of originals.
Lunar Bloom: Lunar Bloom is a Toronto based trio rooted in folk tradition, comprised of Brittany Rae Robinson, Kelly McNamee & Jocelyn Regina. Their original songs feature complex vocal harmonies and intimate storytelling in the dream folk genre. Shows are full of playful banter and dreamy love songs, balanced with feminist anthems and calls to action. They embrace harmonic tension, and rhythms that challenge expectations, creating the story of each song through musical devices as well as poetic lyrics.Their self-titled EP was nominated in the Folk/Roots Category at the Independent Music Awards 2020. Their debut album, Running Deep, will be released in June 2022, supported by crowdfunding and Canada Council of the Arts.
My Pop Choir: Directed By Alex Fiddes, my Pop Choir is a community-based, group of ‘everyone’ choirs for people who love to sing. You don’t need any experience or training or consider yourself a ‘singer’ to join. There are no auditions, no solos, and no need to read music.
Now in its 11th year, My Pop Choir has grown to 5 locations across the GTA. In addition, My Pop Choir also has a fully operational virtual choir, where anyone in the world can join! By utilizing post recording audio software, My Pop Choir's virtual choir includes built-in harmonies, so it feels like you are actually singing in a real choir!
My Pop Choir is a beacon of community spirit. A welcoming, positive, and encouraging place for all! Check us out at www.mypopchoir.com.
Ori Shalva & co:
(pronounced Oree Shalva)
Ori Shalva, the Makharashvili singing family, don’t just perform Georgian polyphony. When they sing exploding counterpoint, harmonized rolling melismas enveloped in a velvety drone, or archaic thick sonorities accompanied by rustic folk instruments, they transcend space and time, and take you on a far-off musical journey of Sakartvelo (aka Georgia), a small and ancient mountainous country located on the borders of Asia and Europe.
Georgian polyphony is a millennia old tradition known for its distinctive and visceral harmonies and recognized by UNESCO as an intangible masterpiece of humanity. The singing family unit has played an important role in the preservation of Georgian polyphony. Singing for Ori Shalva, like most Georgian singing families, is natural, instinctive, and was originally framed by family celebrations, not staged performances. Unlike other Georgian singing families, however, they are based in Toronto, halfway around the world from the source.
Ori Shalva have sung in venues around Toronto, parts of the States, and all over Georgia. The pandemic raised their grassroots beginnings and they were featured in numerous online showcases (SING!, Community Folk Art Council, Labyrinth Ontario, BLOKMUSIC, etc).
For more info visit www.MusiCamptTO.com/OriShalva
Ot Izvora: OT IZVORA (“From the Source”) – Bulgarian Folk Music Choir
Motivated by the beauty and richness of Bulgarian folk music and funding from the Toronto Arts Council, Ot Izvora was formally established in 2015. Directed by Dr. Irene Markoff and with the assistance of Sonia Kiriakova, the all-Bulgarian choir rehearses weekly with great enthusiasm and performs at Bulgarian and Canadian events. Our repertoire includes authentic and arranged songs from Bulgaria’s diverse ethnographic regions performed a cappella or with instrumental accompaniment.
Choir members include Irene Markoff, Sonia Kiriakova, Radiana Kozareva, Dimi Dragieva,Galina Petrova, Galina Radeva, and Galina Markova.
Pressgang Mutiny: Hailing from the port of Toronto, ON, Pressgang Mutiny have been roaring out songs of the sea since 2013. Local favourites in their hometown and on the Canadian and American East Coasts, they are keeping alive a vital tradition of work songs that represents the world's first truly multicultural music.
Sing with Ukraine: Sing with Ukraine is a grassroots effort by Toronto-based Eastern European artists, started after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb 24th. What began as a gathering of friends processing grief together through song, has now become a journey and resistance effort through Toronto’s bars and music venues. We interrupt the pre-scheduled programming to celebrate Ukrainian identity, to show the humanity and culture of those affected, and to awaken ourselves and our city from indifference.
Unaccompanied Minors: The Unaccompanied Minors is one of 6 main groups under the University of Waterloo A Cappella Club. They are a mixed-voice, auditioned group that loves delivering powerful, high-energy performances that span genres from top 40 hits, to indie, to R&B. After 2 years of online a cappella, they're ecstatic to finally be singing and performing together in-person again! You can find them on all social media platforms, including Spotify, YouTube and Instagram.

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955 Lake Shore Boulevard West,Toronto,M6K 3B9,CA, Canada

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