Celebration Sing Out! 2025
NEWSLETTER
Wednesday 17th September

From the land of the Burramattagal of the Eora Nation
We share the healing power of great choral and orchestral music.

Brett Weymark, OAM, Patron
Mal Hewitt OAM, Artistic Director
Warren Fisher, Co-Artistic Director

Warami (Welcome) to our ever-growing choir and to everyone contributing to Celebration Sing Out! 2025

Let's Fill the Hall!
Take action to boost ticket sales today

This is an image of the concert poster. The poster is available for you to distribute as far and wide as possible. Download it from the website, email, print and position it in high visibility and high traffic locations in your area. You can order printed copies. Details are in the article below.

Dear choristers, past singers, instrumentalist, wonderful volunteers and friends,

We need your voices off stage as well as on stage! The countdown is on to Celebration Sing Out! 2025 – our spectacular and iconic annual fundraising concert.

Our concert isn’t just great music – it’s great music with a mission. Every ticket sold helps fund Music Therapy at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, giving comfort and healing to very sick kids throughout the year.

POSTER and HANDBILL
To obtain your poster, click on the MEDIA tab. then scroll down to "CONCERT ADVERTISING POSTER - DOWNLOAD, PRINT, DISPLAY AND DISTRIBUTE".
The poster can be printed as handbills in A6 or A5, and as a poster in A4 or A3 to suit your purposes.

ORDER PRINTED COPIES
1. Print your own if possible
2. Copies can be mailed out to you if needed
If you would like us to send you printed copies of handbills or posters, please fill in the Google Form or Email us with your request if it for more then 100 copies.

DISTRIBUTE and DISPLAY
Place A6 (1/4 page) or A5 1/2 page) handbills where they will be picked up by potential audience members.
Post A4 or A3 posters in places that they will be highly visible and interested people will be able to scan the QR code to direct them to the booking page on the website.

SHARE WIDELY

👉 Please share the booking link (below) widely with your friends, family, schools, and networks.
You may consider suggesting to people who cannot attend the concert that they make a donation. All donations are tax deductible. The donations portal is below Ticket Sales on the website. Every dollar counts!

Let’s make the iconic Sydney Town Hall ring with music and with generosity!

Book Now: csme.org.au/cso-tix-and-donations

Invite people to scan the QR below to book or donate instantly ⬇️

Check out this QR code for the Tickets and Donations page on the website. It is on the handbills and poster too!

Buy your tickets to Celebration Sing Out! 2025 or donate, and share the joy and healing power of music!

"Your Voice Can Help Change a Child’s Life"

Primary Workshop Boost

Congratulations to Jay House, Conductor of the Primary Choirs, for a brilliant Primary choirs workshop on Tuesday 16th September. Held at Mary Immaculate Primary School, Eagle Vale, the workshop covered all of the Primary repertoire for CSO! 2025. It was a day of great teaching and learning for the children' and for their choir teachers. Videos of the day will be posted over the next week, so the goodness can be shared amongst children and teachers who were unable to be at the workshop.

Special thanks to Lois Donnelly for co-ordinating and organising the workshop.

CATCH-UP CHOIR REHEARSALS
Now on CSO! YouTube

Catch up rehearsal videos in the Green Room
Video and audio quality os so good it's the next best thing to being there!

Each video is fully annotated so you will always know where you're up to. The rehearsal videos are intended to be enjoyed in tandem with the online audio tracks and the sheet music, as well as the Pro Tips for Singers in the Green Room, for viewing or download and print.

Three more rehearsals will be added in the coming week, so please check back in the Green Room from time to time.

Notes@Knox Wednesdays Extra
Live, online and catch up.

Three more left!

Notes at Knox
11 Woodville Ave, Wahroonga
Knox Performing Arts Centre Choir Room
Final Rehearsal Dates

Wednesdays Extra 7:30 - 8:30pm

Secondary Students and Adult Singers (Optional for all)

24th September
15th October

22nd October

Notes at Knox
Full Choir (optional)
Memorial Chapel, 2 Borambil Street, Wahroonga
10am - 3pm

Webcast (Online)
live-streamed [Click Here]

Catch-up on YouTube
Green Room for Secondary Schools and Adult Choir

FUNDRAISING INITIATIVE

The Spirit of Sydney Chorus is a community choir made up of approximately 35 women who love to sing. They are based on the North Shore of Sydney.

A huge shout out to the Spirit of Sydney Chorus, who are holding a "Family and Friends" fundraising evening again this year, for Music Therapy at the Children's Hospital at Westmead.
The Celebration Sing Out! team and the Music Therapy Unit at the Children's Hospital at Westmead deeply appreciate the Spirit of Sydney Chorus sharing further the healing power of their music for the kids who are very sick in hospital.

PLACES FOR MORE SINGERS REMAIN OPEN

If an experienced singer wishes to join us for the concert, places remain open until concert day. Spread the word!
CLICK HERE for Singer Registration

Contributions are Due

Click here to pay any outstanding contribution.
Pay $45: Click here

Pay $40: Click Here

Thank you!

PERMANENT LINK
Microsoft Teams
FOR ALL LIVE STREAMING
Use this link for all online rehearsals
CLICK HERE

Past newsletters and bulletins, publicity releases

If you need to find out what you may have missed or forgotten, newsletters and bulletins are posted under the MEDIA tab on the website. Click on the link below.

MEDIA