And you can come hear me and about 140 other people! If you're in Toronto, that is, or willing to travel. Also, given the nature of this concert, if you won't burst into flames entering a Catholic basilica on a big Christian holiday.

What's That About Christian Holidays? The concert is called Sacred Music for a Sacred Space. It's on Good Friday, ( Read more... )

And the Toronto Choral Society, in which both
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Two things:

1) Saturday afternoon, 14h30 community sing, Dictionopolis. E-mail me if you don't know where that is. Read a few posts back if you don't know what that's about.

2) It's St. Patrick's Day. Oh Danny Boy is still not a very accessible song, but it's appropriate:

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Back at New Year's tormenta observed that as a community, we seem to have one core observance of any occasion: we get together and eat and spend time with each other.

Now, I don't think she was complaining, and I sure don't think that sharing food and company is a bad way to do things, but there are other community and cultural activities that I want to ( Read more... )

Some of you have heard this already, but here is where I'm going to be, next week, and what I'm going to be doing.

( Cut for them as don't much care )

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