About The Winnipeg Boys Choir
The Winnipeg Boys Choir is a choir for unchanged voices, for boys only. This audition only group performs throughout the year in the Winnipeg area. We welcome you to our blog. We use this as a way of informing people of our choir, and keeping our boys and their families informed about the choir’s activities.
2011-2012 Season has begun!
Winnipeg Boys Choir, 1970 Recording Photo
If you are in the above photograph, please get in contact with us. If you know someone who was in the choir during the 1966 – 1974 time period, we would love to hear from them too.
Auditions for the choir are now closed until January. However, drop us a line now to let us know you are interested, and we will ensure that we get details to you about the audition process.
If you are checking us out for the first time, feel free to email us at winnipegboyschoir@shaw.ca or call the choir line at 888-5472. Our Manager would love to hear from you.
Tags are used in Blogs and Websites to organize entries by Content, rather than by date, or one category. As of March 18, 2008, each blog entry in this site will have tags attached to it. See the list on the right to link to these entries. The larger the text of the tag, the more pages it links to.
You may navigate this site by using the category links to the right. Items that are password protected are meant for internal use only – for choir members and their families.
If you know the date of the blog entry, you can also click on the calendar to the right. This is particularly helpful with memos. The date of most memos will be a rehearsal Tuesday.
We welcome everyone to attend our concerts, so posts and pages with concert information are NOT password protected. If you have questions or comments, feel free to leave a comment below (which will be moderated) or email us at winnipegboyschoir AT shaw.ca. If you want, you can use the email link on the right to send us an email.
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Hello,my name is Roy Nelson.I was with WBC in the 70′s,because of reasons beyond my control, I have no record of this very important part of my youth. If there are any pictures or other forms of record for the past I would love to be able to see and or recieve some kind of proof that I was really in the WBC….I would have been in the choir in the early 70′s. If you can help me that would be wonderfull…thank you, Roy Nelson
Comment by Roy Nelson— January 26, 2010 #
Hi Roy.
Thanks for the interest in the choir. We actually have no ready access to records from that period. If you do come across anything like that yourself, please let us know.
Comment by winnipegbc— May 24, 2010 #
The Snow Choir looks Awesome!!!!!
Comment by Nicholas— February 1, 2010 #
Thanks Nicholas!
Comment by winnipegbc— May 24, 2010 #
I was a member of the WBC in the early 1950′s until my voice would have changed in about 1956-ish. I really cannot remember much of my life at this time. However I can remember learning the Wings of a Dove solo but cannot remember if I ever performed it.
I went on to study voice and have sung as a tenor soloist in Canada, the Germany, the UK and Australia. I did not sing from about 1971 to 2005 when I joined the Sydney Male Choir as a 1st tenor and am having a great time making good music with a superior choir.
If anyone has any info on the WBC from that time I would be delighted to hear from them.
Comment by Don Rose— May 27, 2010 #
Don, if you ever come to Winnipeg again, please let us know. We would love you to visit the choir. Keep singing!
Comment by winnipegbc— May 28, 2010 #
Congratulations on your continuing efforts. Kid and I named Bruce Gunn were in the choir about 1949-53. All I remember is Bruce and I sang some duet at Festival and got 93 or 94 for it. Jean Broadfoot was the greatest accompanist anyone could ever have had.
Comment by barry craig— July 4, 2010 #
Hi Barry. Thanks for getting in touch with us. Hopefully you can come out to one of our performances and see what the choir is doing recently. Make sure you introduce yourself to one of the directors, they would love to meet you!
Comment by winnipegbc— October 20, 2010 #
My brother John Anderson is in the photo and sang with the choir for some years and I have just sent this link to him in Japan.
We have the 1970 LP but not in digital format and would be very interested if someone has a digital recording or mp3 available.
(Barry Anderson was my organ instructor during that period.)
Justis
Comment by Justis Tylor— November 30, 2010 #
It’s great to hear from a former WBC choir member. We are glad that you have sent info to your brother as well.
At this time, we are not aware of the 1970 LP being available in digital format. We do have a CD from 2003 available.
Comment by winnipegbc— October 31, 2011 #