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	(1) 1000 Grandmothers (Holly Near)
	(2) Blackbird (John Lennon & Paul McCartney)
	(5) Eili Eili (H. Senesh/D. Zehavi)
	(7) Fired Up (Holly Near)
	(9) Sto Mie Milo (Traditional Macedonian Folk Song)
	(10) Mon Coeur (Orlando Di Lasso)
	(11) Wondrous Cool (Johannes Brahms)
	(13) The Road Less Traveled (Carl Strommen)

If you would like to purchase a copy of "TEN", please contact Libby McLaren at 510-482-9479 or email at flower2mcl@earthlink.net

Hello and welcome to the Linwood Project Community Chorus site! I am Libby McLaren, the director of this wonderful chorus. Beginning in the Fall of 2007, we will be starting our 11th year as a community chorus.

WHO WE ARE
The chorus began as an offshoot from Cazadero Family Camp, by chorus singers at camp who wanted a ‘year round’ choral experience. We are all women, with usually about 30-35 singers per session, ranging in age from 40-65, with a few younger and a few older as well.

REQUIREMENTS TO JOIN
We are a community chorus, and so there are no auditions. I ask that you make a commitment to the 10 week session you join, and that you are willing to learn the music and sing with an open heart. You will be given a cassette, each session, containing the music for your part for all of the songs we will sing in that session. Additionally, I highly encourage you to record every rehearsal, to help you remember the weekly details of the songs

THE MUSIC WE SING
We don’t claim any one style of music for our repertoire, instead, we sing a variety of styles. On our CD, recorded in March 2007, we sang 2 arrangements of Holly Near songs, a few ‘traditional’ choral works, a song in Macedonian, one in French, one in Irish, one in Hebrew, an original arrangement of a Beatles song, as well as jazz standards from the 40’s. Every 2-3 years we learn and perform a ‘Winter/Holiday’ show.

PERFORMANCES
Though the main objective of the chorus is to simply get together and learn new songs to sing together, we do perform occasionally. The chorus is on the roster of performers with the acclaimed ‘Bread and Roses’ organization. The performing we do both with Bread and Roses, as well as independently from them, is mostly at local and community convalescent homes. On occasion wefree local performance for ‘Family and Friends’. The years that we work on ‘winter and holiday music’, we also give a free performance in December for the community.

REHEARSALS
The chorus rehearses in blocks of 10 week sessions, of which there are 3 per year. We take off during the summer. During each of these 10 weeks, we rehearse on Sundays from 2:00-5:00pm, at the Salem Lutheran Home, located on 29th St. at 23rd Avenue, near the Glenview district in Oakland. Please see ‘directions’ to find your way to Salem.

DIRECTIONS TO SALEM LUTHERAN HOME
From HWY 13: Park Blvd. exit, go down Park passing 2 lights in a row in the Glenview shopping district. One LONG block later at the next sewhich is also called Salem Court. Go left into this cul de sac, turning right into the first driveway which will take you to an underground parking garage. Park, walk back to the street that you turned into the driveway from, walk right, to the main building where the main office is located. Just inside the front door is the office, and you can ask for directions to ‘The Gathering Room’, which is across from the dining area, where we will be.
DIRECTIONS FROM 580 EASTBOUND Exit at Park Blvd. taking a left at the light onto Park Blvd. and going under the freeway. Pass 2 lights and at the second light, take a HARD right onto Excelsior. Continue on Excelsior until Ardley, taking a right onto Ardley. Continue as indicated above.
DIRECTIONS FROM 580 WESTBOUND Exit at 14th Ave./ Park Blvd. and turn right at the light onto Beaumont. Continue until Excelsior, and turn right onto Excelsior. Continue until Ardley, and turn right. Continue as indicated above.

COST PER SESSION
Once you’ve come and checked out the chorus and decided it’s a good fit for you, there is a nonrefundable fee of $200 per session. This covers the cost of our accompanist, the rental of the rehearsal space as well as music, copying and paying me, the director.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Please feel free to give me, Libby Mclaren, a call or you can email me with questions. I’d love to hear from you!
email: flower2mcl@earthlink.net
phone: (510) 482-9479

flower2mcl@earthlink.net