You’re invited to come and see the final performance in our Spring Noon Hour Concert Series! Admission to the building is free, and a sandwich lunch is available for purchase prior to each recital between 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., with the concerts beginning at 12:15 p.m.
Shoreline Chorus is celebrating its 26th 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, Collingwood, Eugenia, Walter’s Falls, Durham, Chatsworth, Hanover and Owen Sound.
Shoreline presents concerts throughout the year ... fall, Christmas, spring and summer programs. Fall programs ... Broadway, movie, Brit pop, jazz, motown, doo-wop and big band music. Spring programs ... African, gospel, spiritual, folk and Canadian music. Summer programs are more ‘classical’ in style - madrigals, art songs, opera and requiem settings. Christmas programs include both sacred and secular music. Choir concerts are performed in different communities; some in partnership with local groups (in December 2024 with Knox Bells of Praise in Meaford).
Shoreline has also offered choristers the 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; in April 2018, Prague, Czech Republic; Leipzig and Berlin, Germany and in April 2024, Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona, Spain.
The chorus have provided music at special events and fundraisers; the Canadian and American National Anthems at Owen Sound Attack hockey games, the opening of the new schoolhouse at Grey Roots Museum in Owen Sound, the Bighead River Foodgrains Project in Meaford andthe Cenotaph Dedication service in Thornbury.