"Your time, your efforts and your support... ...is very much appreciated. Keep singing, our world needs more people like you!
-- Annette, raising funds for the Niall Mellon Township Trust to build houses in Africa
A sincere thank you... ...to each of one of you again. Your talents and passion for what you do was apparent and our participants were able to relay/walk/run/skip/DANCE around the track all night long because of you!
--Hidy, Canadian Cancer Society Relay for Life Organiser
On behalf of PAALH... ...thank you for participating and making our event at Bella Candela a success! Your group was great! We really enjoyed ourselves. All profits received from donations have gone toward supporting Make-A-Wish and PAALH.
--Sherry, Fundraiser, PAALH
That was great! We're booking you for next year right now! Jade, Baillie House Activities Coordinator, immediately after our performance
How awesome y'all were! I just wanted to pass along how much our seniors (&STAFF!) thouroughly enjoyed your performance for our Summer event.
Please pass along to the group how Awesome y'all were!
--Jennifer Nilsson
Program Manager, Holyrood Manor
Mark your calendars! This group was a wonderful addition to the Fair. Their music was so appropriate for the audience. Thank you so much for inviting them and generally making it happen. I'd like to go on record as wanting them back for 2009!
Doug White, Knox United Church, Parksville
What a great evening! We really enjoyed your group - thank you for your contribution! Thanks again for the hard work of Collage - what a pleasure!
-- Earl Hobson, Director, Royal City Concert Band
I've been coming here for seven years - - and you are the best entertainment we've ever had!
-- audience member, ECRA Pub Night
Dear incredible performer:
Thank you so much for being a part of our festival this year, We could never put on an event without the support and contributions from our friends and community. I hope you found it as enjoyable as we did!
I hope to see you back soon at the ol' bee barn. Best of luck with your future performances.
-- Sincerely,
Leanne Buhler,
Cloverdale Honeybee Centre
If I had a hammer... You guys & gals are the greatest! I saw the show at Carnegie Hall and now I want to hear "If I had a hammer" again and again.
Rudolf, Staff member, Carnegie Centre
Covered hundreds of times, here's a nice version that motors smoothly along with interesting harmonies and passing back and forth of the melody line. Arranged by Kirby Shaw, this is Collage's nice and easy version.
The classic song from The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill. Often translated and performed by numerous artists, this SATB arrangement is by Russ Robinson. It features lots of vocal variety including several scat verses. It's a fun piece to perform!
A jazzy Christmas tune from the early fifties - or before! Louis Armstrong (among others) made it famous then; Collage has fun with their upbeat version today.
A collection of three Christmas favourites - Carol of the Bells, Jingle Bells and We Wish You a Merry Christmas - given a novel jazzy treatment by Kirby Shaw. This could be sung as a medley or as three separate pieces. Accompaniment and practice tracks for each piece are attached.
Manhattan Transfer's be-bopping hit, with that special Collage bounce. MP3 files attached for practice: accompaniment plus parts highlighted. No solo practice track.
