Holly M's Blog Entries

  • Ten Tips to Ace your Audition

        Relax, research and ready yourself. A good audition can get be your ticket to sing in your fave group. Whether you are booking an audition for the Stairwell Carollers, or Googling "how to audition for a choir", I  want to help you do your best at any choir tryout. Our choir holds auditions twice a year; mid to late August... read more
  • Auditions this week!

        Update - Auditions closed for the season -- thanks to all who came out!    Searching for just the right choir? Do you sing bass or tenor? Do you live within driving distance of the Ottawa, Canada's Capital region? Join us! Tenor and bass auditions  continue this Wed - Aug. 23rd 2017. Email us now -... read more
  • Choral Linky party Monthly -- August 2013

                               We want to connect with other bloggers who love choral music. Sharing links is one of the best ways to boost your blog's audience.   Use our easy Linky tool to post your composition ti... read more
  • 2013 Stairwell Caroller Auditions now on -- book now -- don't delay! Tenors and Basses only

                     Our next round of auditions will be held at St. Columba church, 24 Sandridge, Ottawa, Ontario, consecutive Wednesdays Aug 21, Aug 28 and Sept. 4, 2013. We are looking for Tenors and Basses.  PLEASE RETWEET! 2013 Stairwell Caroller #Auditions now on -- book now -- don't delay!... read more
  • Gold at Ottawa Kiwanis Music festival -- and we are invited to the Provincials!

      The Stairwell Carollers entry for 2013 included Pete's original arrangement of Iesous Ahatonnia          For a number of our new Stairwellers this was a first -- to perform at Kiwanis!   The director prepares... Every Kiwanis festival is different -- different venues, different adjudicator... read more
  • DA CAPO -- Joel Haslam and Regional Contact, CJOH TV 1990

    Pete, Dawn, Louise, Holly, Katrina, Margo, Marjorie, John and Bob  -- the Stairwell Carollers, Xmas, 1990 Way back in 1990, when human beings were still manning all the cameras at CJOH and show guests had a dressing room and a makeup artist, Joel Haslam decided to do a segment on us for his own show about local talent in the Ottawa Valley, Re... read more
  • CD SPOTLIGHT -- Qui Creavit Celum -- Our first CD

    CD cover In May, 1997, we recorded our first CD, a Christmas Carol collection, named for Pierre's original lullaby-like Christmas carol, Qui creavit celum.   It became the title track which started a tradition -- each of our Christmas CDs to date have an original carol by Pierre as the title track. It has 27 Christmas carols -- some familia... read more
  • Podcast #6 Vocal Warmup 1 — Vowels and mouth positioning

    Podcast Powered By Podbean Not Twitter tweeting, but renaissance madrigal birds tweets make up most of the lyrics in the song Le chant des oyseaux.   Our director, Pierre, gives us direction in a particularly tricky section of the song and you'll get a taste of the intricacies of working this renaissance madrigal by Clément Janeq... read more
  • The Stairwell Carollers Choir Blog

    Hi   Here is our Blog -- The Stairwell Caroller Choir Blog. We'd love you to drop by. Thanks, Holly ;)