Noon Hour Concerts are back with an incredible Autumn lineup of preformers. Join us every Wednesday from now until December 20th between 12:15 p.m. and 12:45 p.m.
Plus, come a little earlier and enjoy a sandwich lunch available for purchase beginning at 11:30 a.m. Admission to the building is free, and all are welcome and encouraged to come out.
Can’t join us in person? No worries! Each concert is available for viewing on our YouTube page following the live performance.
This Week:
Shoreline Chorus
Director - Ann-Marie MacDairmid
About the Shoreline Chorus
Shoreline Chorus is celebrating its 24th season.
Shoreline is a 50-member Owen Sound based community choir under the direction of Ann-Marie MacDairmid.
Choir members live throughout Grey County including Thornbury, Meaford, Eugenia, Walter’s Falls, Durham, Williamsford, Chatsworth, Hanover and Owen Sound.
Shoreline has presented fall, Christmas, spring and summer programs. Fall programs have included a range of Broadway, movie, Brit pop, jazz, motown, doo-wop and dance music. Spring programs have featured African, gospel, spiritual, folk and Canadian music. Summer choir programs are more ‘classical’ in style – music of a certain theme from composers over the centuries.
Christmas programs include both sacred and secular music. Shoreline presents its Christmas program at churches in several local communities during the Christmas season.
Shoreline has also offered choristers opportunity to travel and perform abroad. In April 2012, Shoreline (and friends) went to Havana, Cuba; in April 2014, Friesland and Amsterdam, the Netherlands; in April 2016, Dublin and Belfast, Ireland and in April 2018, Prague, Czech Republic; Leipzig and Berlin, Germany. The next tour is to Spain in April 2024.
The chorus is available for special events. Shoreline has sung the American and Canadian national anthems at Owen Sound Attack hockey games. They provided music at the opening of the new schoolhouse at Grey Roots Museum. Shoreline often performs at fundraisers, most often for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
Autumn Concert Series Lineup
NOVEMBER 8
Shoreline Chorus
Director Ann-Marie MacDairmid
NOVEMBER 15
Keiko Larocque soprano
Ann-Marie MacDairmid piano
NOVEMBER 22
Autumn Debassige mezzo-soprano
Angus Sinclair piano
NOVEMBER 29
Matthew Gartshore piano
DECEMBER 6
Waterloo County Carollers
DECEMBER 13
Renaissance School of the Arts Flute Choir
Director Wendy Wagler
DECEMBER 20
Cambridge Girls' Choir
Director Jessica Strub