On October 27th the Amabile Youth Singers & Prima: Amabile Women’s Choir hosted Harvest Luncheon: Anne of Green Gables Fundraiser. The event was the first event of the 35th Anniversary Season and it was a beautiful way to kick off the season. Featuring great food, and good music the Amabile Youth Singers and Prima: Amabile Women’s Choir performed a great selections of songs that reminded us what it felt like to be down by the eastern shore.
There were many beautiful, unique and fun auction items that went home with our wonderful supporters, as well as some live auction items that had the room jumping with bids.
Congratulations to all the individuals who won their silent auction bids; and to individuals who won the live auction items of: Michael Kors Sunglasses (courtesy of Central Optometry); and tickets to Billy Elliot at the Stratford Festival and dinner at Dolcetto Risto; as well as the lucky individual winners of the wine draw (including 12 bottles of red and white wine and a selection of craft beers) and the 50/50 draw! Thank you to all who donated to our silent auction.
We would like to thank the following individuals for sponsoring this great event:
We also would like to thank all of our wonderful choristers and their families for their hard work and dedication to put on such a wonderful event, including our many soloists: Emma Butler, Gillian Middleton, Lela Tamas, Abigail Fairweather, Veronica Saad, Anusha Samarabandu, Olivia Lourenco, Shannon Palmer, Julianna Spence, Kiara Harriman, Rhonda Walsh, and Wendy, Emily and Katelyn Inch, with a special guest performer as Anne, Miraya Agrawal from our Junior Amabile Singers. Thank you ladies for all your hard work and for sharing your wonderful talent with our guests. Thank you to our accompanist Hayoon Kim for providing us with her wonderful accompaniment. And thank you to our co-founder and conductor Brenda Zadorsky for her time and commitment to our choirs.
Next, we’d like to thank all our Amabile Youth Singers & Prima: Amabile Women’s Choir executives who went above and beyond to put this event together and worked diligently to ensure it was a success! We’d also like to thank one of our original volunteers, Gail Rees, for creating all beautiful the centre pieces at the event. A special thank you goes to Amabile Alumni Josh Rosedale for his audio and sound engineering to give our ladies the best sound possible.
We would like to give a very very special thank you to CTV News London’s Nick Paparella for being our Master of Ceremonies! His enthusiasm and energy was palpable throughout the afternoon. We’re so grateful he was able to be a part of our day!
Thank you Nick!
We would finally like to extend our sincerest thank you and appreciation to Best Western’s Lamplighter Inn and their staff for ensuring our event went smoothly and for all their great work assisting us with set up and all the little things in-between.
And thank YOU – our wonderful supporters who came out to our first event of our 35th Anniversary Season. We wouldn’t be here for 35th years without you and we look forward to seeing you at all our future concerts to make some more wonderful memories.
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