- Living Room Choir was started in 2015/2016, led by Kaitie Ty Warren with Sara Stutz as assistant and Andrea Lappen as executive assistant. Kaitie began leading toward the end of 2014 and attended CCLT (the Ubuntu Choirs Network training in Victoria, BC) in 2016. (Flash forward: Sara Stutz attended CCLT in 2023.)
- The 2020 events moved us to Zoom and overlapped with Kaitie’s parenting leave. Sara held the virtual Living Room open throughout, with support from Deborah Leeds.
- In 2022, we began meeting in person again, but things were different. The world was different, so were each of us, and so was our choir. But at the heart of things, Living Room Choir felt and feels very much the same. Returning to it feels very much like coming home. (Maybe after a little reconstruction.)
- Now Kaitie and Sara co-lead and Deborah is the music assistant. Several choir members continue to act as volunteers and support when its needed, to help keep things running as smoothly as possible as we navigate changes related to Covid safety and becoming more inclusive of the new children and parents in our choir.
- We self-described as LRC ANEW: Approaching Necessary Evolution Willingly in 2022, as got used to this new format. At the time of this writing, we are back to using Living Room Choir, and also feature a Living Room “annex” called Grace Notes which works on supplemental material. Now that Kaitie and Sara are co-leading, and have such support with Deborah and other choir members, we have been able to begin holding choir around the full calendar year, as well as host more workshops with guest leaders.
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Previous Sessions
LRC ANEW (co-led by Kaitie and Sara, assisted by Deborah Leeds)
Summer Saturdays 2025
Spring 2025
Winter Drop-Ins 2024-2025
Fall 2024
Summer Saturdays 2024
Spring 2024 and Grace Notes introduced!
Fall 2023
Summer Saturdays 2023
Spring 2023
Fall 2022 (first in-person session after lockdown)
LRC Projects on Zoom:
Simple Harmonies (Songs for Babies and Their Grown-Ups)
Summer 2020 (on Zoom – lots of songs!)
“Living Zoom Choir” Highlights Video
LRC (led by Kaitie Ty Warren, assisted by Sara Stutz)
Spring 2020 (aka “the great pivot”)
Fall 2019 (last full in-person session before lockdown)
Spring 2019
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
Fall 2017
Spring 2017
Fall 2016
Spring 2016
2015