Daytime Drop-In Choir – Want to sing? Come drop-in any Friday morning!
We always start the season on the first Friday after Labour Day. In 2025, that date was Friday, September 5.
If you’re just looking for a place to sing – no matter your skill level – come try out Cheryl’s Daytime Drop-In Choir to get a bit more singing and to let your voice soar. The group now rehearses in the sanctuary at Lendrum Mennonite Church (11210 59 Ave NW, Edmonton), where we’ve been able to rent space, thanks in part to Sound Opportunity Friends Association. The Drop-In Choir was originally founded by Eva Bostrand. Cheryl Balay took over the Drop-In operations in the fall of 2016.
With professional instruction and accompaniment, this group sings for 90 minutes a week exploring transferable choral skills, strengthening good vocal technique, discovering new repertoire with a healthy dose of supported sight-singing and just having fun singing and learning. There are no performances and no ongoing commitments. Be present in the moment. Sing away your stress. It’s a drop-in experience – the choral equivalent of a pond-hockey pick-up game where everyone is welcome.
The repertoire could change at any time, as we don’t know which voices will be present and what range of skill levels will be encountered on any given day. We are open to suggestions from Drop-In participants, especially if one has a choral challenge in repertoire or technique – or just a favourite song or genre. In November we will likely take on learning some of the songs from the annual Christmas Bureau performance at the Francis Winspear Centre of Music, to make that performance more accessible to more singers, should individuals wish to take part in joining a mass choir for one Friday lunchtime performance.
Your first session is free, so come try us out! Then it’s an annual $50 administration fee plus $10 per drop-in session.
Rehearsals run from September to the long weekend in May with a short break over Christmas holidays and no rehearsal on Good Friday.
Conductor Cheryl Balay and Accompanist Kim Cousineau
Daytime Drop-In Choir
Fridays from 10 am to 11:30 am
Lendrum Mennonite Church (in the sanctuary)
11210 – 59 Avenue NW, Edmonton
