Sharing Joy Through Song!

Achill — Your Community Choir

**Thank you for joining us in our Celebration of 40 rejoicing in our 40-year history of the Achill Choral Society!**

As the Headwaters Region’s premier community choir, we currently have 65 singers. There’s always room for more! Our concerts feature songs diverse in style, culture and message.

Rehearsal Location: Upstairs at Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville, ON, L9W 2Z5
Date: Wednesdays @ 7 P.M.

Please contact info@achill.ca if you wish to attend and to receive further details including a Pre-registration Form so that you can pick up your set of vocal scores at the first rehearsal. These are on loan, to be returned to Achill’s librarian.

Also you can connect with us on facebook.com/AchillChoralSociety

Achill’s Spring Concert: illuminare

Illuminare

Illuminare — Achill Celebrates Spring, Joy, Hope, and Peace
This spring, Achill is proud to present the Ontario premiere of Elaine Hagenberg’s exciting new work ILLUMINARE. Drawing on Latin, Greek and English texts, the piece takes us through a season of beauty and goodness that has been disrupted by darkness and confusion. But as light gradually returns, hope is restored, illuminating our future and guiding us in Peace. Continuing the themes of joy and hope, we’ll perform a delightful collection of folk songs arranged by Bob Chilcott, Ron Smail, Steven Hatfield and Paul Halley’s Song For Canada.
Please join us for an afternoon of uplifting music under the direction of Shawn Grenke and accompanied by Nancy Dettbarn on piano.

Tickets for ILLUMINARE, Sunday, April 28

Artistic Staff

Shawn Grenke, Artistic Director

Shawn Grenke is a multifaceted musician, conductor, and educator. He is Visiting Guest Conductor and Professor in Conducting at Brock University’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts, Director of Music at Eglinton St. George’s United Church in Toronto, Collaborative Pianist with the Elmer Iseler Singers of Toronto, and Artistic Director and Conductor of the 65-voice Achill Choral Society. With degrees from Mount Allison University and the University of Toronto, Shawn has performed globally, received accolades such as the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship, and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Music Degree at the University of Alberta.

Nancy Dettbarn, Collaborative Accompanist

Passion and imagination are qualities that Pianist and Organist Nancy Dettbarn brings to her audiences. Nancy is the Minister of Music at Westminster United Church in Orangeville. She is a dynamic clinician and a valued performer, collaborator and accompanist. Nancy has been our Collaborative Accompanist since 2018, and adds greatly to our rehearsals and performances.