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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!

Related event: Park Performance #1
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!

EYBS Holiday Party 2023
Posted On: Dec 19, 2023

Merry Christmas! It was wonderful seeing friends and families gathered around us once again to celebrate the season with some good ole' holiday caroling. Mr. Penstone returns to us once again providing us with some top notch quality emcee-ing; much thanks to the lovely pianist Amanta for reprising her role this year; and we were joined by plenty of muscial guests as usual.

Following that, some familiar quartets: Constructive Criticism (with George Shields as a special guest!), and the Green Brothers with Opie and Pat.

A special solo, performed by Malisha - we've always been impressed by how good she sounds!

The ladies of Moving Parts and Moving Sparks joins us for a number or two (with a humorous take on how modern holidays are celebrated 📱)

and, saving the best for last, one of our final guests... Maple Reserve! (singing one of the only holiday songs in their repertoire... in a major key 😉)

Our favorite hippo hero shows up towards the end of the show... ðŸ¦›ðŸ¦›ðŸ¦›

and to close it off, everyone in the East York Barbershop family wishes yall a merry little Christmas now! See you in the New Year.

Related event: Holiday Party (2023)
Singout at the Shops at Don Mills
Posted On: Dec 15, 2023
This past Friday we had the pleasure of singing for the folks at the Shops at Don Mills. It was a ton of fun, the crowd was great, and we saw smiles and cheers all around.
We'll be singing again on Thursday (12/21) and Friday (12/22) again next week from 4pm to 6pm. We hope you stay for a song or two if you're around during those times.

Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday!
Related event: Shops at Don Mills Singout (1 of 3)
Happy 98th Birthday George!
Posted On: Dec 5, 2023
A very, very happy 98th birthday to our very own George Shields! During the break at last week's practice we celebrated with the chorus with some lovely cake courtesy of Mr. Green. It's always great singing together with ya, George! We look forward to singing more songs with you in 2024 =)
No Practice at the Hall (August 29th)
Posted On: Aug 22, 2023

Please note that we will not be holding practices on August 29th.

Our chorus will be reconvening at the hall on September 5th.

Inter-Chapter Practice with the Scarborough Dukes of Harmony
Posted On: Jun 19, 2023
The power of in-person interactions was on full display when the East York Barbershoppers and the Scarborough Dukes of Harmony got together for a group practice session this Monday. It was great to see friends again, but even better to be able to sing together once more.

Performing for each other, and performing together under the direction of Pat and Jordan really energized the group throughout the night. We performed some tags, sang some polecats together, and even had performances from quartets in both groups.

The night wrapped up with some popcorn and refreshments, and lots of chatting and catching up. What an incredible evening!
Great UofT Article about H4S
Posted On: Mar 23, 2023

Harmonize for Speech (and East York Members and H4S Board Members George Shields and Rick Snoulten) were recognized in this great article in UofT's Temerty School of Medicine article.  Enjoy!

https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/harmonize-for-speech

EYBS Holiday Party 2022
Posted On: Dec 10, 2022

Related event: Holiday Party 2022
Sing out at the Sumach!
Posted On: Sep 21, 2022

The East York Barbershoppers are finally singing for a live audience once more! Everyone in the chorus is excited and grateful for our first public performance since the pandemic.

After years of dealing with lockdowns, with quarantine isolations, with an underlying sense of unease... It's so great to be able to bring joy and smiles to people's faces in these trying times.

Many thanks to the kind folks at the Sumach for hosting us and our friends. We were joined by a couple of quartets: Three Notes and a Rest and Constructive Criticism, and boy did they put out some banger performances.

All in all, we had a fantastic time, and here's to more performances in the future!

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