North Sky Chorale

06/12/2026

Sung by the festival choir at Treblefest Ottawa | Upper Voices Choi...

06/10/2026

There is so much public debate and discourse around the concept of "freedom" these days. Singers and musicians know something inherently that the rest of the world needs to learn: when you pause, listen, and give space for people other than yourself, that's when true freedom comes into existence.

For our encore at our recent concert "Animated", we invited the audience to join our voices in Oscar Peterson's iconic "Hymn to Freedom".

Find the entire concert playlist on our YouTube channel.

05/22/2026

Join the Singing Resistance! Perhaps when Windborne comes to Rosthern next season, we could do this one together? And will they have noticed the one word change we made for this performance?

From our ANIMATED concert in Saskatoon, SKKnox United Church, Sask...

05/21/2026

Relationships take work, and sometimes mistakes are made, but fully worth the effort. Just like time spent rehearsing, active listening, and making space for beautiful unique individuals can result in powerful moments like this one at our recent concert in Saskatoon. Fix You by Cold Play, arranged by George Chung. A full video of this piece can be seen on our YouTube Channel. https://youtube.com/

05/15/2026

Ola Gjeilo's beautiful The Ground (from his "Sunrise Mass") was the concert opener at our April concert.

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05/10/2026

Mother's Day is day set aside to recognize the strength and beauty of a nurturing spirit, a trait traditionally attached to motherhood. But it is not an exclusively feminine trait, as there are many who know and understand a self sacrificial love.

This piece goes out to all of you today - Jacob Narverud's beautiful "Lunar Lullaby", featuring a text adapted from "Celestial Child" by Kathleen Nicely. Imagine a mother (or parent) gazing upon a peacefully sleeping child and all the feelings and emotions that arise.

The moon settles in the dusky sky.
The gentle eyes of the north star
rest upon your sleeping face
and the heavens gaze upon you.

In this moment, I know;
You are not from the ground on which you tread,
but of the stars.
You are my radiant, my celestial child.

As night is drown’d by morning
you remain at my side,
accompanying the sunrise
until night swells again across the sky.

Then, dreaming, you return to the stars.
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CELESTIAL CHILD
by Kathleen Nicely (2014)

The moon settles softly in the dusky sky;
the gentle eyes of the North star
and the dewy light of the constellations
rest upon your sleeping face.
Orion will guard you as you lie in the dim light
and Leo will hold you close to his heart.
The heavens gaze upon your fingertips
which settle as a spider’s thread
clinging softly to your airy bedsheets.
Let me whisper ancient reels into your ears,
and brush back the hair from your eyes.
Let me live within your deepest self;
let me live within the beating of your heart,
and the gentle breaths streaming through your lips.
You are my forever in the spinning cosmos,
you are the home I will always return to.
you are more precious than diamonds,
more beautiful than the brushstroke rings on Saturn.
Your value weighs down libra’s scales.
You are my heart’s compass which leads me to myself;
the workings of your heart are like a passing dreamscape-
and your eyes sparkle-
like the dissonance of spontaneous song.
Your voice is like stardust scattering across your teeth.
You are my breath,
you are my child,
you are manifested love,
and you breathe softly in my arms
while the North Star and Orion beckon for the sun.

05/05/2026

It’s and we still feel chills from our concert last week!

05/04/2026

Actually, my friends, today is Dave Brubeck Day! (IYKYK)

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