The Serenata Singers presented a belated 50th anniversary concert for family, friends and former members of the choir at The Gap Uniting Church on Saturday afternoon, 29 May 2021. Better late than never! The choir was keen to return to performing and relished the opportunity to sing in front of an appreciative audience. Under a …
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Serenata Singers Celebrate
In 1970, The Gap and District Musical Society was founded. In 2020, it achieved its 50th Anniversary under the name Senenata Singers Inc. Just as ideas to observe the occasion were being planned, COVID-19 arrived in Australia and it became necessary to defer any celebration until a gathering of past and present members became viable. …
Volunteers Needed for UQ Research Project
The UQ is calling for volunteers aged 60+ to participate in a study of how music affects recognition of lyrics and word processing in popular music. It looks to be both interesting to participate in and valuable in terms of the information it will generate. It takes about 60 minutes and can apparently be done …
Open Night 2021 a Success!
The choir was pleased to welcome 11 prospective new members to our Open Night on 22 February. We hope that a hot and humid rehearsal space on the night, and our inability due to COVID restrictions to welcome them with a cup of tea/coffee, will not deter our guests from further involvement in the choir. …
Serenata Ushers in Christmas, 2020
Who would have thought that our first performance opportunities for the year would be in December? At the invitation of the Samford Singers, we travelled to Samford on Saturday 12 December and Friday 18 December to present a program of Christmas carols on the lawn of the Samford RSL. Despite a lack of rehearsal time …
Open Night 2021
Make 2021 the year you take your singing beyond the confines of the driving seat of your car or your shower stall. The Serenata Singers, a community choir based in The Gap, is holding an Open Night at 7.30pm on Monday 22 February in the auditorium of The Gap Uniting Church, 1050 Waterworks Road. This …
Serenata Singers Persevere in 2020!
(This article has been submitted to local newspapers.) The Serenata Singers, a community choir based in The Gap, entered 2020 with high expectations. The choir, which sings a variety of popular, traditional, spiritual and show tunes, is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary and, in addition to a packed concert schedule, had planned a special reunion function. …
Information for On-line Get-together 25 May
Hope you are as excited about this event as I am. Here’s what you need to know: The get-together will start at 7.30pm on Monday, 25 May on Zoom.You will receive an email invitation. It will have a link to the meeting (which you click on) and a meeting ID and password that you will …
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On-line Get Together Planned
A small group of choir members has been working to make possible an online Zoom get-together of the choir at 7.30pm on Monday 25 May. Mark this in your diaries now. It will not be possible to rehearse, but Jenni and Lois will take us through some basic music theory, some warm-up exercises and a …
Interested in a Virtual Choir?
Interested in exploring the possibility of joining a virtual choir while Serenata Singers is in recess? This might be worth looking into. Sheltering in place gives us a lot of freedom to explore new solo repertoire and work on technical kinks that might go overlooked during busy teaching and performance seasons, but it also deprives …
50th Anniversary Update
Well, our May celebration has been postponed, but that gives a bit more time to organise a truly memorable commemoration. We know that some members have been looking through the names of past members posted on the website. STOP PRESS: We have now updated the list (latest update 16 May) and expect to have further …
2020 Open Night – Come Sing with Us!
The choir is always looking for new members and 2020 would be an ideal time to join! The choir sings a variety of popular, traditional, spiritual and show tunes. It rehearses weekly on Monday evenings at The Gap Uniting Church and performs regularly, mainly for retirement communities, care facilities and community groups. The choir is …
Christmas Concert at St Gerard Majella
In what has become an annual tradition, the choir travelled to St Gerard Majella in Chermside for our last concert of the year. The parish stages a Christmas festival over a full week with Christmas markets, food stalls, an eye-popping (and award winning) display of Christmas decorations and live entertainment, including on Tuesday evening 17 …
Carolling at The Gap shops
Here we go a carolling! The choir staged a “pop up” concert of Christmas carols at The Gap Shopping Centre on Saturday morning 14 December. This year we were able to use the vacant space previously occupied by Baxter’s Café and it provided a perfect setting, centrally located, with plenty of room and a surprisingly …
SERENATA SINGERS CHRISTMAS SOCIAL
A glittering evening of dinner, song and socialising – and a few jokes – was enjoyed by choir members at our annual Christmas social on Friday evening, 6 December, at the Arana Leagues Club. A chock-full program of musical items included performances of The Foggy, Foggy Dew by John McCollow; the Flanders & Swann classic, …
Serenata at St Mark’s
The choir kicked off its Christmas carolling season with a performance at St Mark’s Anglican Church in The Gap on Sunday 1 December. The choir performed as part of the church’s Christmas markets and stayed around to augment the singing of carols at the church carol service. Despite limited rehearsal time, the choir performed creditably …
Parkview Concert, Wheller Gardens
On a beautiful Tuesday morning, 26 November, the choir travelled to Parkview at Wheller Gardens (Chermside) to do our final non-Christmas-related concert of 2019. We had a good sized and appreciative crowd. The choir sang the West Side Story medley, the Gershwin swing set, Down to the River to Pray, Veni Jesu, I’m Gonna Sing, …
Gala Concert: I’m Gonna Sing
The Annual Gala Concert, staged in the Uniting Church Auditorium on 2 November, lived up to expectations as the highlight of the Serenata Singers concert year. This year’s theme was “I’m Gonna Sing” and featured a program that emphatically demonstrated the many different styles and moods of choral music. It included medleys of songs from …
Bellevue Concert
On a wet Saturday morning the choir travelled to the Bellevue Nursing Home in Ferny Hills on 19 October to perform before a good-sized audience of nursing home residents. The concert was our last outing before the gala concert and gave us a chance to further hone our repertoire. Premieres included Tonight and One Hand, …
Gala Concert Working Bee
What a great day we had last Tuesday (15 October) at our Working Bee in the city! Eight ladies worked in pairs to produce some wonderful props for our upcoming Gala Concert. We chatted, laughed & worked well together. We were fortunate to be afforded a large, classy work area on the 6th floor of …
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