MIDYEAR CONCERT "Let The Sunshine In"

Thank you to everyone who came to our Midyear Concerts.  Sunday's Concert was packed out!

Its so lovely to have an audience, especially one  that has people with happy smiling faces and jiving in their seats.

Thank you to Allison Ritchie - Deputy Mayor of Clarence for attending and bringing a raffle prize with her. We also thank her for all her support of the Choir.

Thank you to The Hon Dean Winter MP for helping with our photocopying. 

Thank you to Kmart Newtown, Sharon Fotheringham, and Choir Members for donating raffle prizes. 

CHOIR TERMS AND CONCERT DATES

Term 1 - Thursday 29 January - Thursday 9 April

Term 2 - Thursday 16 April – Thursday 18 June

No choir practice on Thursday 2 April – Maundy Thursday

No choir practice on Thursday 25 June & Thursday 2 July

Term 3 – Thursday 9 July – Thursday 17 September

Term 4 – Thursday 24 September – Thursday 3 December

Christmas Concert dates –

Saturday 5 December & Sunday 6 December

New members are always welcome.
No auditions are required.

We meet Thursday evenings at 7pm in the Riverside Room in LCAC. For further information call Maggie on 0407717423.  Our rehearsals are fun, therapeutic and made so much easier by practice music being brilliantly prepared by Helen Keeling.

VALE SYBIL FREE/THOMPSON

Sybil was a member of LRAC for many years and served on the committee as Secretary for some of that time. Sybil was a huge help when the Club met an upheaval in 2009, when she also dealt with the ATO and Department of Justice when documentation was missing. She also helped out when our musical director resigned at the end of that year and the ensuing business which needed to be dealt with. Sybil and her husband, Malcolm, retired from the choir in 2018, but remained regular supporters at our concerts and Club functions.

Vale  –   Gwen Freestun/Gwen Scanlan

Gwen was an integral part of the LRAC for over 30 years.

Gwen was involved in many activities with LRAC.  She served on the Committee for many years and took the role of Secretary for many of those.  She was a quiet presence who was well organised and was one of the first to volunteer to help with any social events or one of the many fundraising events that took place.  She was regularly called on as a model for the fashion parades which LRAC held in our earlier years - displaying the costumes made for the drama productions which were the basis of the club’s origins in the 1950s.  The costumes were reproductions (as close to authentic as possible) of fashions of a bygone era and were used in the plays written and performed by founding members of LRAC.

 Gwen sang with the sopranos in our choir, performing solos and in small group items in our concerts.   She was very involved in the drama side of concerts – performing in plays and skits.  When LRAC stopped performing melodramas in our concerts the Play Readers club came into being (originally co-ordinated by Bernard Gillon from 2011 and later by John Trigg on Bernard’s death).  She retired from the choir in 2013 but continued with the Play Readers until it disbanded in late 2015.

 We will always be grateful for the huge contribution that Gwen made to our club.