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Celebrate Canada!

CONCERT 1

SUNDAY OCTOBER 19 2014 3 : 00 pm concert

FEATURING soloists from the Brantford Kiwanis Music Festival: Kati Cox [Soprano], Julia Surette [Soprano], Rebecca Orsini [Piano], Charlotte LaPointe [Piano]

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CONCERT 2

A BSO Christmas–with the GRC

SATURDAY DECEMBER 13 2014 7: 30 pm concert IN PARTNERSHIP WITH The Grand River Chorus

Broadway Today

CONCERT 3

SATURDAY MARCH 7 2015 7:30 pm concert

GUEST ARTIST Charles Cozens [Conductor/Arranger], Giselle Fredette [Soloist], Helena Janik [Soloist], Stephen Patterson [Soloist]

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SUNDAY MAY 3 2015 3:00 pm concert

GUEST ARTIST Stephen Sitarski [Violin]

Welcome to the 2014 – 2015 Season of the Grand River Chorus The Grand River Chorus and its Board of Directors would like to offer our thanks for your continued support and attendance at our concerts. We are a community-based choir that enjoys performing great works of music from across the ages. We hope this concert season will delight and move you as our choristers and Artistic Director Richard Cunningham take you from War and Peace to Passion! We will be performing our first concert to commemorate the outbreak of the First World War 100 years ago. This concert will honour our valiant veterans, from all wars, with the music of war and peace. The choir with your help will be performing Handel’s “Messiah” in our annual Sing-Along Messiah concert. Bring your score or purchase one at the door and join voices with the choir performing the choral wonder of this Christmas tradition. We will also be presenting Bach’s St. John Passion, this powerful masterpiece will be performed with six outstanding soloists joining the chorus, and it will truly be a wonderful concert. Our final concert of the year will take you to the coast as the Grand River Chorus goes “All A-Sea”. We are the featured guest artists of the Brantford Symphony Orchestra’s Christmas Concert. This is another chance for you to hear the magic of our full choir on stage at the beautiful Sanderson Centre.

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We will be holding our annual Fête du Vin fundraiser February 21, 2015. Come out and enjoy a night of wine tasting, dinner, entertainment and of course the silent and live auctions.

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Tim Marsden President, Grand River Chorus

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A WORD FROM OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Our 2014-2015 season promises to be another wonderful season of great music. We sail the ocean blue!! We sing of the Passion, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ in one of the world’s greatest masterworks!! We have our annual presentation of Messiah, and you get to be the chorus!! And we honour our veterans with a concert commemorating the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One!! As you can see, great music of many different styles, which will thrill you, make you contemplate, and just simply entertain you. Please be a part of this. I know that you will be glad you did!! Richard Cunningham, Artistic Director

Richard Cunningham, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Through his long career as a musician, Richard Cunningham has travelled throughout North America and Europe. Performing as a countertenor soloist, Richard has sung in Bulgaria, Germany (including both sides of that once divided country), Holland, Sweden, France, and Great Britain as well as coast to coast in the U.S.A and Canada. He has also travelled widely as a chorister, performing with the Elora Festival Singers, the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, La Chappelle de Quebec, the Taverner Consort, Winchester Cathedral Choir and St George’s Chapel Choir of Windsor Castle.

In the last 15 years, Richard has spent more of his time as a choral conductor, passing on the skills of singing individually and in a choir to musicians in Kitchener, Hamilton, Brantford and Toronto. As well as conducting the Grand River Chorus for the last nine years, Richard has taught courses in vocal methods and conducting at McMaster University. He is also one of the vocal teachers on staff at McMaster. The Grand River Chorus gives him the opportunity to perform the masterworks in the choral repertoire with a group of talented and dedicated singers who share his joy of tremendous music. Richard is the Director of Music at Eden United Church in Mississauga and loves the challenges presented there, which include a handbell choir as well as the choir and helping to coach the folk group.

Richard earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from the University of Toronto. He has studied choral conducting with Derek Holman, Edgar Hanson, William Wright, Douglas Bodle, and Jon Washburn. As a concert artist, Richard’s studies began at U of T with Lillian Weichel and Edgar Hanson. The grateful recipient of three scholarship grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Richard traveled to England to study with Timothy Penrose and James Bowman, two of the finest practitioners of the countertenor’s art.

When he is not directing a choir, singing or teaching, Richard may be found composing music (mostly vocal or choral with piano or orchestral accompaniment) or driving between rehearsals.

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Cara Blackwood,

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ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

Ann-Marie MacDairmid is a native of Thornbury, Ontario. She has an Honours Bachelor of Music degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master of Music degree in organ performance from the University of Western Ontario.

Cara Blackwood, a long-time chorister with the Grand River Chorus, earned her Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Toronto. She spent many years teaching high school instrumental music with the Grand Erie District School Board before switching to teaching her other love, English. She discovered her love of choral music later in life, singing with the Norfolk Singers and the Bach Elgar Choir. This is her sixth season as assistant conductor of the Grand River Chorus.

As well as being an organist, she is an accomplished pianist, percussionist and choral conductor. Ann-Marie is the founder, director and accompanist for the Shoreline Chorus in Owen Sound, Ontario. Shoreline Chorus presents three concert programs a year – fall, spring and summer - working in a wide variety of musical genres including Classical, Spiritual, Gospel, Jazz, Mo-town, Doo-wop, Big band, World folk music, African music, Disco, Broadway and Movie music. In April 2012 the choir went to Havana on a Canada-Cuba cultural exchange.

2014-2015 GRC Board of Directors Tim Marsden, President

Ann-Marie is the accompanist for the Owen Sound based vocal jazz group Cricket and is part of “The Retreads” an instrumental jazz group that plays at regular meetings of the Thornbury-Clarksburg Rotary Club. She has served as accompanist for a number of other groups, including the Georgian Bay Concert Choir in Owen Sound and the Schneider Male Chorus in Kitchener.

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Ann-Marie serves as assistant organist at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Kitchener. She performs solo recitals and accompanies instrumental and vocal performers at St. Andrew’s regular noon hour concerts throughout the year. Her programming reflects an eclectic musical taste, the most noted being her “Hallowe’en Special”. Other solo organ programs feature themes ranging from dazzling pedal solos to ragtime to gospel preludes.

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In the fall of 2012 Ann-Marie helped start a youth choir in Thornbury; the Apple Valley Youth Choir. She is the conductor and accompanist. The program is being co-sponsored by a local business and the Rotary club.

Donald Young, Fund Raising

As a supply organist, Ann-Marie has played for many church services throughout Southern Ontario.

Alex Morris, Acting Past President

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Ann-Marie is dedicated to community service. In December 2010 she was recognized as a Paul Harris Fellow by the ThornburyClarksburg Rotary Club for service in Rotary and other community organizations. In October 2011 Ann-Marie was nominated for an Owen Sound and Area Cultural Award in the Music category. 4.

Richard Cunningham, Artistic Director

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Concert 3

SONGS OF WAR AND PEACE

Sunday, November 2, 2014, 3:00 p.m. St. Andrew’s United Church, 95 Darling Street, Brantford This year marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One. We commemorate the momentous event in history with a concert honouring our veterans. We will sing a number of different settings of that most Canadian of war poems “In Flanders Fields”, and will weave them into many other songs of the time of WWI and other conflicts.

Concert 2

SINGALONG MESSIAH

Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, 3:00 p.m. Grace Anglican Church, 15 Albion Street, Brantford

Our annual presentation of Handel’s “Messiah” will be your chance to join the choir and sing this majestic work with us. Join the Grand River Chorus and Orchestra along with four fine soloists, and enjoy this great celebration. Guest Soloists: Shannon McCracken - Soprano Timothy Wong - Countertenor Shawn Oakes - Tenor Michael York - Baritone

BACH’S ST. JOHN PASSION

Saturday, March 28, 2015, 7:30 p.m. St. Basil’s Roman Catholic Church, 50 Palace Street, Brantford

Handel and Bach were born the same year (1685), and their work redefined music in the late Baroque period. Six superb soloists join the Grand River Chorus and Orchestra for the presentation of this brilliant master opus in the glorious setting of St. Basil’s Church. This wonderful story of redemption through the passion and crucifixion of one person is a concert you will not want to miss. Guest Soloists: Lesley Bouza - Soprano Scott Belluz - Countertenor Robert Kinar - Tenor (Evangelist) Bud Roach - Tenor Robert Huard - Bass David Roth - Baritone

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ALL-A-SEA

Saturday, June 6, 2015, 7:30 p.m. W. Ross Macdonald School Auditorium, 350 Brant Avenue, Brantford Avast mateys, and meet us for a concert of songs, shanties and grand choruses, all on a watery theme. We promise that the winds will fill our sails and that the swell will be enough to enjoy the ride but not too much for a queasy stomach. Come and sail with us!!

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Shannon McCracken - soprano Shannon is thrilled to be returning to sing alongside the Grand River Chorus this season. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Wilfrid Laurier University under the instruction of Leslie Fagan, and is an alumnus of the Banff Centre’s Musical Theatre Professional Training Intensive. Shannon pursues a varied career on both the classical and musical theatre stages, having performed Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro, Rosina in an excerpt of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Lazuli in an excerpt of L’étoile (Opera Laurier), Cinderella in an excerpt of Into the Woods (Banff Centre), Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Laurey in Oklahoma!, Eileen in Wonderful Town, and having performed for two seasons at the Port Hope Festival Theatre in Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music. Shannon has sung as a soloist for the Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir, La Jeunesse Youth Orchestra, Maureen Forrester Singers, Choral Connection (Vivaldi’s Gloria), and Wilfrid Laurier University’s Chamber Choir and Orchestra (Handel’s Messiah). Shannon currently resides in Peterborough, Ontario, where she continues her studies privately and teaches from her home studio.

Timothy Wong - countertenor As a soloist, Tim has created the roles of Ramiro (La Finta Giardiniera, Mozart), Huntsman (Venus and Adonis, Blow), Spirit (Didio and Aeneas, Purcell), Ixion (La descente d’Orphée aux enfers, Charpentier). In May to June of 2012, Tim was part of Edmonton’s Vocal Arts Festival, where he created the role of Harry in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring. Last season, Tim was privledged to returned to the Toronto Masque Theatre as the Huntsman in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis. This season, Tim has been featured as a soloist in Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170 with the Heliconian Chamber Orchestra. He also performed the title role of Hänsel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel with Toronto Summer Opera Workshop, and covered the role of Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito with Centre of Opera Studies in Italy (COSI), where he also performed Vivaldi’s Gloria (RV. 589) with the Aradia Ensemble as the alto soloist under the baton of Maestro Giuseppe Pietraroia. This summer, Tim will return to COSI to create the comic role of Poppea’s nurse Arnalta in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, under the direction of Timothy Nelson. Tim has performed under the batons of Hans-Christoph Rademann, Helmut Rilling, Rose Thomson, Jonathan Berman, Kevin Mallon, Larry Beckwith, and Gordon Gerrard. He has also had the opportunity to work with directors like Tim Nelson, Kelly Hendricks, Brian Deedricks, Tim Albery, and Rob Herriot.

Shawn Oakes - tenor Shawn Oakes music director and performance credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat, Pirates of Penzance, Oliver!, Oklahoma, Beauty and the Beast, And The Buddy Holly Story. Select classical solo engagements include; Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat, Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle. Most recently Shawn was a soloist for Mozart’s Requiem under the direction of Boris Brott and National Academy Orchestra. Internationally, he has been a regular member of the Stuttgart Festival Ensemble . This group performs in the European MusikFestival under the direction of Helmuth Rilling performing major choral and orchestral works throughout Europe. Highlights of this tour were performing at the Berlin Philharmonic, the Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival as well as an open-air concert at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. One of his favourite memories of this tour was singing Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor at the cathedral in Salzburg where Mozart himself originally premiered it. He was also chosen to go to Montego Bay, Jamaica as a soloist for Canada in the Bid for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Shawn is member of the ensemble Arcady where he performs as a classical soloist regularly. Shawn is the director of the O YA Chorus (Ontario Youth A capella) which is an a cappella chorus for young men singing barbershop. The group has received top honors at the international youth chorus festival over the past five years. The group has travelled to California, Florida, Arizona and Nevada. He is currently teaching instrumental and vocal music at Brantford Collegiate Institute where they offer a special performing arts program. Also under Shawn’s direction is a male barbershop chorus and award winning symphonic band playing great wind band repertoire by composer such as Holst, Grainger and Vaughan Williams.

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Michael York - baritone Baritone Michael York is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and sang and taught in Illinois before becoming a resident of Toronto. Known for his strong voice and dramatic presence, he has recently sung the title role of Verdi’s Macbeth and Renato in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, both in concert with Coro Verdi in Toronto. He also appeared as Sgt. Malone in Rose Marie with Wish Opera, the Count in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro with the Guelph Symphony, the title role in Verdi’s Rigoletto with Opera York, and dual roles in the premiere of Andrew Ager’s opera, Frankenstein. Other performances have included roles in Toronto Operetta Theater’s premiere of Earnest, the Importance of Being , Summerworks Festival’s production of Flux by Glen Buhr, and Weber’s Die Drei Pintos and Mozart’s Zaide, both with Opera in Concert in Toronto. He can be heard on Sinfonia di Camera’s recording of the opera Oedipe by George Enescu on Albany records. In California, Michael sang roles with Opera San Jose, West Bay opera, Donald Pippin’s Pocket Opera, Livermore Valley Opera and Opera Stelle le Ciel. In oratario, Michael has appeared as a soloist with Chorus Niagara, the Elora Festival Singers, the Brott Festival, the Cellar Singers, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Arcady, the Millikin-Decatur Symphony and the Bach Artists of Champaign-Urbana. Future engagements include Toronto Sinfonietta’s performance of Haydn’s ‘Lord Nelson Mass’ in November and Pax Christi Chorale’s performance of Hubert Parry’s ‘Judith’ in May of 2015. Michael is also a section lead and featured soloist at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church in Toronto, ON. Before moving to Toronto, he was a member of the voice faculty at Millikin University in Illinois where he taught voice and directed for the opera program.

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Robert Huard - bass

Lesley Bouza - soprano Lesley Bouza is a graduate of The University of Guelph where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in music as a saxophone major. During her time at Guelph Lesley discovered singing and chose to pursue her post-graduate studies in voice at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, Wales, where she earned her Artist Diploma. Lesley is a versatile singer who is equally comfortable performing jazz, classical and opera.  In the past few years her engagements have included touring Taiwan with the Swingle Singers, participating in Summer programs such as the Welsh National Opera’s youth production, Summer Opera Lyric Theatre in Toronto and the Tafelmusik Summer Baroque Institute. In January 2011 Lesley performed in the Canadian Premiere of Haydn’s opera, La fedeltà premiata, with Opera in Concert.

Well known in his native town of Québec City, bass-baritone Robert Huard has performed many times as a soloist with different musical organizations in the area; Les Violons du Roy (in Bach’s St John Passion), Opéra de Québec and the Québec Symphony Orchestra.

She has appeared as a soloist with The Nathanial Dett Chorale, The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, The Elora Festival Singers, The Grand River Chorus, The University of Guelph Choirs and Arcady.

Robert was heard as a soloist in December 2013 with the Choeur polyphonique de Charlevoix, singing Handel’s Messiah and in April 2014 for the Choeur de Rimouski for Dave Brubeck’s “Earth Is Our Mother.”

Scott Belluz – countertenor

The finest display of Robert’s talents came in Opéra de Québec’s performance of Verdi’s opera “MacBeth”in May 2014, where he played the doctor and in the role of the Baron Popoff in Lehar’s “The Merry Widow in October of that same year.

Canadian countertenor Scott Belluz is rapidly gaining recognition as an engaging vocal artist. Praised for his ‘warm, rich voice and impeccable coloratura,’ (La Marseillaise) Scott brings his committed artistry to repertoire ranging from 17th century to newly composed works. Scott’s operatic roles include L’humana fragilita and Pisandro in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with Chicago Opera Theatre, Athamas in Handel’s Semele with Pacific Opera Victoria, Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Medoro in Handel’s Orlando in a French touring production and with Toronto’s Opera in Concert. Scott has received great acclaim for his performances in the world premieres of numerous Canadian operas, including the title role in Omar Daniel’s The Shadow with Tapestry New Opera and Tremblay’s Opera Feerie with Montreal’s Chants Libres. Concert appearances include Handel’s Messiah with the Thunder Bay Symphony, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Aradia Ensemble and Bach’s Magnificat with the Ottawa Choral Society. Scott sang in the 2012 world premiere of “From the House of Mirth”, choreographed by James Kudelka, for Coleman Lemieux& Compagnie and starred in “A Synonym for Love”, the sexy update of a Handel cantata with Toronto’s Volcano Theatre. This season, Scott debuts with Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and is guest soloist in Bach’s Cantata 147 with Kingston Chamber Choir.

Robert Kinar – tenor Robert Kinar studied in Montreal and at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he completed a Master’s degree in Performance Practice. He has been featured in numerous Montreal performances, including Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, and several of Bach’s cantatas. Since locating to Toronto, Robert has appeared with several groups in the region including the Guelph Symphony Orchestra, Grand River Chorus, Toronto Masque Theatre, Tallis Choir and the recently formed Larkin Singers. As a member of Tafelmusik, he has been a soloist in performances of Haydn’s Saint Nicholas Mass and Charpentier’s In nativitatem, as well as on the Tafelmusik recording Gloria. Robert teamed up with oboist James Mason to perform R.V.Williams’ Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience at the Elora Festival. Past performances with the Grand River Chorus include Haydn’s Creation, the Monteverdi Vespers and the arias of Bach’s St-John Passion. Robert is looking forward to singing the role of ’Evangelist’ for this season’s presentation of the St-John Passion.

Bud Roach – tenor Described by the Toronto Star as a “must-hear lyric tenor”, Bud Roach has performed frequently with many of Canada’s finest ensembles. He has consistently produced highly regarded programmes with his ensemble Capella Intima, performing on both the baroque guitar and theorbo. Recent concert highlights include a programme entitled Canzonettas from the House of Vincenti at the Venice Opera Project, Cavalli opera performances in Venice, as well as appearances with the Toronto Consort, Messiah with the Guelph Chamber Choir and Choralis Camerata, Bach’s Magnificat with the Oakville Masterworks Chorale; a series of Fringe recitals at the 2013 Boston Early Music Festival (“revelatory concerts”- Early Music America), programmes of Noel Coward and Cole Porter with the Talisker Players, and a Capella Intima collaboration with the Toronto Continuo Collective to present Marco da Gagliano’s La Dafne. In 2013 Musica Omnia released Bud’s first solo cd- Sospiro, the complete arias from 1626 of Alessandro Grandi. “Roach is marvellous throughout….Five stars” (Early Music Today, UK). His second CD- arias by Sances from 1636- has just been made . Engagements this season include the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 with Soundstreams Canada, programmes of Noel Coward and Irving Berlin with the Talisker Players, Purcell’s Te Deum and Jubilate (alto) with the Musicians in Ordinary, performances with the Toronto Consort, Messiah with the Boris Brott National Academy Orchestra, solo recitals in New York (Midtown Concert Series), Toronto (Early Music Centre), and Boston (Early Music Festival Fringe Series), Bach Cantatas with both the 13 Strings of Ottawa and the Spiritus Ensemble, as well as several programmes with Capella Intima, including Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with the Gallery Players of Niagara. This season Bud has also started a new, monthly early music concert series in Hamilton, called Hammer Baroque, presenting some of the finest musicians from Ontario and beyond. www.budroach.com 14.

Robert also works in early music. He received two scholarships from the Ministère de la Culture du Québec for masterclasses in medieval music with Sequentia Ensemble, from Köln, Germany. He was a member of Québec’s Ensemble Anonymous which specialized in this repertoire, giving concerts form coast to coast in Canada and the United States. Robert has also sung with Ensemble La Nef of Montreal, and Musica Divina in Ottawa.

This is Robert’s second appearance with the Grand River Chorus. In 2006, he sang the role of Jesus in the St John Passion. This season Robert will sing the bass arias in the same work.

David Roth - baritone A graduate of the vocal performance programme at the University of Toronto, baritone David Roth studied under the direction of Patricia Kern. Mr. Roth is the recipient of several academic awards offered by the Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Arts and Science. A veteran performer, David has sung in Canada, the U.S., The United Kingdom, and Germany as both soloist and chamber musician with such organizations as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir, and the Toronto Masque Theatre. David has appeared as a featured soloist with Tafelmusik in several programmes, most recently in Handel’s Saul, the programme London and Rome, and A French Baroque Christmas. Other notable performances include solo engagements with the Durham County Chamber Choir in performance of Faure’s requiem and the Kitchener Symphony Orchestra in Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins. Some of David’s operatic roles include Polyphemus in Handel’s Acis and Galatea at the Toronto Fringe festival, Olin Blitch in Floyd’s Susannah, Lindorff and Dr. Miracle in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann at the Halifax Summer Opera workshop, Priest of Jupiter in Handel’s Hercules with Tafelmusik, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, with Lyric opera studio Weimar and Don Alsfonso in Cosi fan tutte with Theater Rudolstadt. David has recently appeared in recital with the Aldeburgh connection at the Bayfield festival of song and in concert with I Furiosi and looks forward to engagements this coming season with Tafelmusik, The Toronto Consort, Les Violons du Roy, and many others.

Andrew Hutton - bagpiper Andrew was born and grew up in Brantford Ontario. He is a 2014 graduate of North Park Collegiate. He is now attending Houghton College in New York State where he is their official bagpiper. Andrew began piping at age 8 with Gordon Black. He joined the Paris Port Dover Pipe Band at age 10 and has traveled with the band to perform in France, Scotland (twice) Crete, Switzerland and Germany. He competed in the band at the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow in 2008 at age 12 when the Paris Port Dover Pipe Band placed 2nd in their grade level. At age 14 Andrew played with the Paris Port Dover Pipe Band on stage with Paul McCartney. Andrew is a successful solo competitor and has been invited to compete this November 15th at the George Sherriff Memorial Amateur Invitational in Hamilton, Ontario for the top 10 amateur pipers in North America. Andrew was the top Grade 1 Amateur Piper at the North American Championships this past August at the Glengarry Highland Games in Maxville, Ontario. This summer Andrew competed with the Grade 3 Paris Port Dover Pipe Band which won the title Champion Supreme for North America.

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The Grand River Chorus invites you to become a member of our organization and join us in supporting quality choral music in our community. A variety of contribution levels offers you several choices with rewards that show our appreciation. Please circle the number corresponding to your desired level of support. Make your cheque payable to the Grand River Chorus to help us build a strong organization. The GRC is a registered charity and will provide tax receipts for any donation. For further information or inquiries, contact:

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2014 - 2015 PROGRAMME

PHIL McCOLEMAN MP Brant 108 St George Street, Suite 3, Brantford, ON N3R 1V6

Nicol Florist Limited

Wholesale - Retail Flower Shop and Garden Centre

519-754-4300

846 Colborne St. - Brantford N3S 3S9

Phone: (519) 752-3142 Fax: (519) 752-3545 www.nicolflorist.com

www.philmccolemanmp.ca

Plan to attend... THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL

Grand Fête Du Vin Gala Wine Tasting Event with Dinner, Auctions, Live Entertainment

Saturday February 21, 2015 Best Western - Brant Park Inn, Brantford This years featured winery:

To ensure prompt paym include the following in on your invoice:

Deadline: Oct 1/12 For details and tickets call Distribution date: Oct & Dec 2012 519-753-6758 18.

The Grand River Chorus 5W x 3.875D

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Phil McColeman, MP 108 St George Street, Brantford, ON N3R 1 519-754-4300

www.grandriverchorus.com 201 - 245 King George Rd. Brantford, ON N3R 7N7