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Ontario Quartet Event 2025
Posted On: Aug 9, 2025
What a packed summer! Another weekend up at the Ranch, starting on Saturday with the OQE: a full day of singing with different people, networking with fellow barbershoppers, and plenty of quality coaching.

The day started off kinda of chilly, but the temperature quickly ramped up. It's impressive seeing all the singers withstand the smoldering heat as the day went on. Everyone came prepared and ready to sing the songs we practiced throughout the summer.

Many props to the organizers for a well ran event. We ended the day with a show and tons of quartet performances, and I even managed to nab a place by the end of it! I had a wonderful time, and am definitely looking forward to next year's event!
Harmony Jamboree 2025
Posted On: Jul 19, 2025
On Saturday, Harmony Ranch hosted the 2nd annual Jamboree!
It's a day for Barbershoppers to come together and fraternize, do some quarteting, and sing some cool arrangements together as a group.

It was my first time up at the Ranch! Having arrived early, I took the time to tour the peaceful, idyllic grounds.

The rest of the day was practicing the group songs, interspered with burgers, hotdogs, and refreshments.

As part of our ongoing celebration of our Chapter's 75th anniversary, the East York Barbershoppers were honored to sing as part of the evening show. We were joined by lots of ex-East Yorkers, and knocked out a pretty good performance.

The rest of the evening carried on with lots of performances from different choruses. I especially enjoyed the performance by the Black River Chorus.

It was a great way to spend the Saturday, and it was fun singing in a new setting than what I'm used to.
Spring Convention 2025
Posted On: Apr 15, 2025

Spring Convention 2025 was held at Belleville, and we were thrilled to be able to sing for everyone this year.

To celebrate our 75th anniversary, we're joined by a number of ex-East Yorkers to sing a couple of songs from our repetoire! It was great singing with folks we haven't sang with for a while, and catching up with other barbershoppers in general.

There were lots of quality quartets and choruses singing throughout the day, and it was especially exciting seeing new talent do so well at the convention.

You can catch our performance here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcnTG1iBPDg

2024 Holiday Party
Posted On: Dec 17, 2024

As another year comes to an end, we're glad to be able to host our annual Holiday Party once again!

Thanks to our many guests for helping make this year end with lots of festive cheer!




Fall Convention 2024
Posted On: Oct 18, 2024

At long last, after a 5 year hiatus, we're back performing at the Ontario District Fall Convention!

Here's us getting ready to sing:

Together with the Dukes we've managed to secure third place this time. You can catch our performance in the YouTube video linked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSr55iMdu6o

Joint practice with the Dukes!
Posted On: Oct 7, 2024

We're gearing up to sing with the Scarborough Dukes at the Fall Convention this year!

One more week of practice before we head on down to Hamilton to compete!

East York Community Guest Night
Posted On: Sep 17, 2024

Wow, what a turn out! Thanks to all the guests that came out for the night. It was a lot of fun sharing our hobby with all of you, and we're glad everyone followed along and tried a bit of singing.

Pat did a wonderful job guiding all of us through warm up; Eric was great at teaching us a tag; Geoff regaled us with interesting stories from the long history of our Chapter; and many thanks to all the East Yorkers that came together and help make this a great event. We hope to do more guest nights in the future, and we're always on the look out for singers!

Park Performance: Withrow Park
Posted On: Aug 13, 2024

Another week, another park! 

Once again it was nice to see a number of park goers stop by during our performance. It was also great to have a couple of chorus friends show up as well.

We'll be out and about singing for a couple more weeks!

Community Singout: Beaches
Posted On: Aug 6, 2024

Hey all! We had a fun time singing for the community at The Beaches during our regular practice hours.

Thanks to everyone who stayed and listen to us sing, and many thanks for the support!

We hope to catch yall in our singout next week!

Practice: Cancellation
Posted On: Jul 16, 2024

Hi Folks,

Due to the severe thunderstorm today, several areas in Toronto are experiencing flooding, and more with intermittent power outages. We are cancelling practice today because of this.

See yall next week!

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