Do you remember when...
...Buff Allen, Brian Hoover and Sheilagh Sparks did “ A Little Jazz Mass” with BICC?
...Yvonne McSkimming sang “I Need a Silent Night” with BICC?
...Dave Cameron was Elvis?
...Maggie Davidson had us rock’n to “Oh Happy Day”?
...David Smith wore a tutu as a Sugar Plum Fairy?
...we had a massive snow storm during our concert and at least three songs just happened to be about falling snow?
...we did “Bohemian Rhapsody” with Cam Stevens and Leo Pederson as our rock band?
...when Shari Ulrich played and sang her song with BICC “Hear The Bells Ring”?
...when Alison Nixon and her Bowen Quartet joined BICC for the 2019 Winter concert?
...when Wendy Alexander, Cindi Keep, Shasta Martinuk, Terry Oswell and Deb Thompson did the amazing clapping for “White Winter Hymnal”?
...when Bill Runge joined us for a jazz sax improv over Ole Gjello’s “Evening Prayer”?
...when Bob Doucet joined us for kitchy Hawaiian Christmas tunes?
...when we did the performance of Handel’s Messiah (the Christmas bits) with guest soloists and string ensemble?
...we had “sugar plum fairies” with the Bowen Island dance academy? (we had to do it twice because one of the little fairies was late and missed it the first time!)
...Jackie Minns and Dave Cameron did a comic dance routine to the “Blue Danube”?
...when Wayne Kozak improvised over Gorecki’s “Totus Tuus”?
It’s been a long musical pause during COVID. Now, as we are getting ready to sing together in person again, we are asking to hear from you! The audience.
What was your favourite song performed by the Bowen Island Community Choir over the years? Send your song request as soon as possible to [email protected].
Ellen MacIntosh, musical director, will look over the requests and pull together our fall program celebrating the songs that you love to hear! Our concert will be Dec. 11.
