2020 – 2021 OLPH Parish Children’s Choir
Dear Parents;
I would like to offer you a very warm welcome to the OLPH Parish Children’s Choir program. At our practices the children are offered instruction in proper singing and vocal technique as well as additional instruction on how music enhances participation in the sacred liturgy.
This year our choir will begin on Sunday October 4th 2020 @ 10:45 am. Our Choir will begin the year in a Virtual Format. We will have Synchronous (live practices) via a secure zoom link. These practices will take place on the first and third Sunday of each month. You will also receive tapes of the songs that we are working on via email, so that your child can review our music at their own pace. One of my goals is to create virtual choir videos that we can share to our parish website. (This process will be discussed in more detail at our first zoom meeting.)
Please contact me by email@ maryleefairfield@aol.com and place OLPH Parish Children’s Virtual Choir in your subject heading to enroll your child in what I hope will be a very new and exciting way to praise the Lord in song!
Please note that I have expanded our choir age group to include all children of the parish under age 18. I am very pleased to extend this invitation to our many very talented high school students as well as our elementary and middle school students. I also would like to encourage any instrumental students who would like to participate in accompanying us in our new virtual choir format to contact me. I would be thrilled to work with you!
You may feel free to contact me by email @ maryleefairfield@aol.com for further information and to sign your children up for this wonderful new way to participate in our parish children’s choir!
(Reasonably priced online/virtual private lessons on piano, beginner guitar and beginner voice, ukulele, violin and clarinet are also available for the children of the parish on weekdays in the after school hours and on weekends by special arrangement.)
I look forward to working with you and your children. I wish you and your families every blessing during the upcoming school year!
Marylee Fairfield
maryleefairfield@aol.com
Oct 4, 2020 Update
Thank you so much to the members of the OLPH Parish Children's Virtual Choir! You did such a great job at our first practice. I look forward to many more great practices and some wonderful virtual choir videos from this very talented group. If you would like your child to participate in this new activity, please contact me at maryleefairfield@aol.com. Our next practice will be Sunday Oct. 18, 2020 at 10:45am to 11:15am. New members of all ages are always welcome!
Oct 18, 2020 Update
Thank you to the OLPH Parish Children's Choir for a wonderful second virtual practice! Not only did we work on new songs, we welcomed new members!!! It was so nice to see everyone giving their best to the Lord on this beautiful fall Sunday morning! I thoroughly enjoy spending time with you all. Our next practice is Sunday November 1st @ 10:45am to 11:15 am. We are working on some new music and some Christmas music. The children are also going to begin selecting some new music to add to our collection of songs. I am truly blessed to work with you all!