The Community Voices Choir was formed in 2004 and has 23 regular members and a few who come when they can. As a diverse group of people both male and female with a wide age range—the youngest being 14 and the oldest over 60—there is a common benefit for the members to interact with each other at a community level. There is also an opportunity for the older members to be both role models and mentors to the younger members and for the younger members to keep the older ones in touch with their world.
The Community Voices Choir is open to all with no restrictions, and members have the opportunity to learn more about music and also how to work as a team. Practice is held fortnightly on Wednesday evenings at 5.30pm at 10 Rogers Street.
The Choir offers benefits to its members, especially the younger ones, as a link into the Volunteering ethos that is so vital in a small community and also has the advantage of being educational. As not all our members are able to read music it has been an opportunity to learn and become more musically proficient
To begin with we just sang for pure enjoyment, but as time went on, we began to be invited to voluntarily perform at various community functions including Carols by Candlelight, Seniors Christmas Luncheon, ANZAC and Remembrance Day Ceremonies, Australia Day Celebrations, the Biennial Art Exhibition and Dowerin Field Day. This has been of great benefit to the cultural development of the wider community and has given choir members confidence in their ability to perform in public.
The Community Voices Choir offers its members a wonderful outlet to indulge in a cultural pursuit, to enjoy some creativity and to take a bit of respite from the rigours of busy lives. The therapeutic benefits of singing aid the wellbeing not only of the choir members but the wider community. |
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