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Member profile: Meet Lauryn!

Posted in History, Members, Sopranos, VLGC on October 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Lauryn began singing like an angel when she was just a toddler. Growing up on the East Coast, where music was an important part of daily life, she was frequently in demand with requests to do renditions of “The Bluenose Sails Once Again.” Later, she joined choirs in school and church, and carried over her [...]

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Section leaders in place for sopranos, altos, basses

Posted in Altos, Basses, Members, Sopranos, Tenors on September 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Each year, the choir looks for one person from each section to organize the occasional rehearsal and generally track of things within their section. As volunteer tasks go, it’s comparatively low-key, and as an added bonus it’s a good way to get to know the people you’re singing most closely with! In our 2010 season [...]

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Out in Harmony sings for fun, not fame!

Posted in Inclusiveness, Members, Sopranos on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

by Lisa P, soprano, member since 2008 No, really! We really do sing for the fun of it!  And I’m saying that as someone who wasn’t so sure about that before I joined. Before moving to Vancouver, I’d wistfully longed to gather up enough nerve to inquire about singing in my local GLBT community choir. But, [...]

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New Name unveiled at “What’s In a Name” Concert

Posted in History, Sopranos, VLGC on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In 2010 the choir changed its name to Out in Harmony from Vancouver Lesbian & Gay Choir. This is the “unveiling” announcement made by choir member Denise Garzon at our June concert, “What’s in a Name?”

In the fall of 1990 when this choir was founded, the choir’s vision and purpose was clear – to give gay people a place to be themselves, to sing together in a mixed-gender choir, and to do so while being highly visible. The name Vancouver Lesbian & Gay Choir was chosen specifically because it made it blatantly obvious at a glance that this was a group of women and men, who primarily identified as lesbian or gay, who sang together, -publically and proudly.

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