It was a new “first” for Belleville Monday evening in St. Matthew’s United Church when close to 300 choristers from Toronto to Kingston from eight regional choirs got together, filling the auditorium to near capacity.
Why do we sing? After I took singing lessons for some years, my daughter-in-law Emma gave me a book called Why We Sing, written by a singing therapist, Julia Hollander. And so I discovered the many reasons for singing – a practice that had sadly declined during the pandemic lockdowns.