Celebration Sing Out! 2025
Performer Newsletter #2
Friday 18th July |
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Warami (Welcome) to Celebration Sing Out! 2025 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, Music Director |
It's been a challenging year for our small organising team as they prepared bumper resources and attended variously to the usual but still challenging organisational matters, whilst navigating life, some heavy professional workloads, recovering from the ravages of viruses doing the rounds, being committed family people and even having a babies! (details can be asked for and gasped at rehearsals ..... )
You may have been waiting for replies to messages, or for information about CSO! As of today, we are fully "in harness" and will give you the replies and information you seek on a timely basis.
Good news!
Everything is now in place, and we are moving into top gear to ensure a bumper Celebration Sing Out! for 2025.
So, let's all get on board, accept the challenge, and enjoy the journey!
Away we go! Read on! |
Room for plenty more singers |
Nearly 80 adult singers have registered already, so there is room for plenty more. So, if you have already registered, great! If not, today is a great time to take action.
Accessible Repertoire
Great Listening Resources Online!
This year's repertoire is full of "really good sings", and is somewhat more accessible. The repertoire is guaranteed to make you swoon, make your heart swell, or put a smile on your face too.
There is a Spotify Playlist for you to sample the repertoire.
Register to Sing Go to the SING WITH US tab on the website for information and forms. We are preparing to print the books and having the numbers in will make that process so much more effective.
Spread the Word
You can help boost the choir by spreading the word.
Invite members of your own choir, friends, family, work colleagues. Everyone is welcome. If people are worried about having the skills, ask for addional assistance. Dedicated letters of invitation and posters are available by email on request. For these, and for additional learning support, email us ASAP. Click here
Already Registered?
CONGRATULATIONS!
We have now set up a payment portal for your contribution to resources and licencing of songs, rather than invoicing.
CSO 2025 Adult Participant Contribution:
Please pay a contribution of $45, or $40 concession. This goes towards the costs of licencing, arrangements and printing of the various scores. Concession is intended for all low income earners, seniors and card holders. Should you be experiencing hardship, please contact Mal Hewitt with respect to assistance or waver. Pay $45: Click hereCash payments can be made at NOTES at KNOX.
Please put cash into a labelled envelope.
Thank you! |
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Volunteers NeededWho can help? |
Our organisation team needs a volunteer boost. We are seeking volunteers to work with John or take responsibility for the following:
Social Media
Job description: Help build the social media presence and activity of Celebration Sing Out! on one or more social media platforms.
Faceook and Instagram are the two foremost for CSO!, but if you have expertise in in other Social Media platforms, we are very happy to hear from you.
Media and Publicity
Job description: Liaise with appropriate broadcast or other media such as ABC to get messaging on-air and arrange interviews.
Relationships Management
Job Description:
Keep a record of stake-holders, supporters and influencers. Liaise and write letters of invitation to politicians, business people, principals etc.
Something Else
If you would like to offer your volunteer time to Celebration SIng Out! in ant way at all, you are very welcome to contact us.
As a volunteer, you will be working with the team, mostly at your place and online, with John as volunteers co-ordinator.
Each task will develop in response to your experiences as we explore these roles for Celebration Sing Out!
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
John would love to hear from you by EMAIL, TEXT or CALL. |
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Crowded House will be entertaining their fans in a performance at Berry on the South Coast of NSW as part of their Australia-wide revival tour, Red Hot Summer, while we perform a medley of their songs specially arranged by the wonderful Andrew Chessher for this year's Celebration Sing Out!
I have no doubt that the songs in the medley, mostly from the pen of Neil Finn with a little help from brother Tim and Mitchell Froom, will feature very strongly in the Crowded House tour.
The CSO! 2025 Crowded House Medley includes Private Universe, Better be Home Soon, Weather with You, Four Seasons in One Day, Something So Strong, and Don't Dream It's Over.
Enjoy your opportunity to sing these classics from one of Australia and New Zealand's favourite bands, launched in Melbourne in the early 1980s and still going strong!
Happy singing! Mal Hewitt |
Celebration Sing Out!
In a nut-shell |
Did you know, Celebration Sing Out! is a unique cultural and health initiative with its culminating performance in the City of Sydney's landmark historic venue, Sydney Town Hall.
CSO boosts our personal and community wellbeing, culture and especially fundraising for children’s health. Singing in our choir provides access and opportunity to enjoy the benefits of singing in a community setting. The results include an increased sense of belonging and social cohesion.
CSO and its historic origins have a span thirty three years, mostly at Sydney Town Hall. Over that period, more than 20,000 singers and 75,000 audience members have raised over one million dollars for children's health and wellbeing.
Celebration Sing Out! is welcoming, diverse and inclusive. Disability access is supported, and in 2024 there were singers from twelve choirs based in the City of Sydney, plus singers representing another fifty two community and professional choirs from across NSW. Singers came from thirty-one cultures, including LGBQTI+ and eight Aboriginal nations. The Redfern Aboriginal community was represented for the first time in 2024.
CSO brings together children, teenagers and adults aged 8 to 88. We offer equity and support, with low-cost or free options for singers and audience. The free online and in place music learning with highly experienced music educators is one of Australia's leading supports for community choral singing.
CSO is a peak community and cultural activity that offers community capacity building, benefits to wellbeing, and the security of funding for Music Therapy, for the benefit of thousands of children annually children annually who are very sick in the Children's Hospital at Westmead. |
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KNOW THE WEBSITE
Your "Go To" for CSO information and activity
Every thing you need to know and do
for your Celebration Sing Out! 2025 journey |
The website is choc full of goodness. It gets updated frequently with refreshed content and clearer layout.
Click around the menus and links, and check it all out: Sing, Play or Volunteer Come one, come all!
Invite your choir, your relatives, friends or work mates. Get information and register to participate on this page. Sing With Us The dedicated singer registration page. Send the link to people you invite to join us. More than 65 choirs represented in CSO! in 2024! What will it be this year :) Our Diverse Choir Check out the diversity of the Celebration Sing Out! community of singers Green Room Concert day itinerary and general organisation will appear on this page Green Room - Primary Choirs Learn the Primary and Combined Choir music here: In place, online and catch up rehearsal details, print music, guide tracks and sample performances. Green Room - Secondary and Adult Choirs Learn the Secondary and Adult Choir music here: In place, online and catch up rehearsal details, print music, guide tracks, Spotify playlist and sample performances.
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MUSIC AVAILABILITY
Secondary Schools and Adult Singers |
All sheet music for Secondaty and Adult singers is available to view and download on the website.
BOOKS of MUSIC will be available at the first NOTES AT KNOX on 3rd August
If you cannot attend the live rehearsal and collect your book, let us know by email and I will post your book out. If you have already emailed John about your music book, your request is already noted so no further action is needed from you.
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From the Green Room web pageNOTES AT KNOXFIRST NOTE LEARNING DAY |
The Green Room aims to help us prepare for our great community-based choral and instrumental fundraising spectacular
in support of Music Therapy at The Children's Hospital at Westmead.
NOTES at KNOX
Note-Learning and Rehearsal Days
Attendance recommended but optional
In place and webcast online, for all secondary schools and adult singers.
Links for the webcast will be posted here and circulated in the newsletter prior to each rehearsal.
WHEN Sundays: 3rd of August and 12th of October
10AM - 3PM
WHAT TO EXPECT Complimentary tea, coffee and biscuits when you arrive.
Time out for lunch and to socialise.
Participate in the group pizza order if you wish. Order and pay on the day.
Sessions will be live-streamed and recorded for your ease of access on the day and afterwards.
MUSIC BOOKS Will be available to collect on the day.
Bring your 2B pencil and rubber to make notes on your score.
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The Green Room - Primary Choirs has been designed for access by the children and their parents, as well as by choir teachers.Children can access the audio to build their familiarity with each work, by listening, singing along and inventing games to help learn the music, all independently of and in addition to school rehearsals.Online audio, sheet music and teaching tips are great ways for primary teachers and students alike to learn their beautiful songs for Celebration Sing Out!Primary students can listen at home or in the car with family to become familiar with the songs.Combined primary school's conductor, Jay House, has produced a very helpful video explaining and then demonstrating the body percussion they will be using for Kusimama on concert day. Primary Choir rehearsals are being planned, and these will be filmed so that those who are unable to travel can still have the benefit of those great learning experiences.
In response to feedback, the two of the more challenging Balinese folk songs will be dropped from this year's concert. This move will ensure the most enjoyable and artistically satisfying singing experience for the children. Teachers will be advised of the changes at the start of next term.
Despite having a young baby, Jay Hoise is happy to do a workshop or two in Term 3. If your school is interested in hosting a workshop let Lois Donnelly know and she'll try to get at least two schools together. Our plan is to video important segments of those workshops for posting online, so those unable to attend can still benefit. |
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