The choir was en route to the International Choral q̓at̓ᶿaymɩxʷ (Kathaumixw), a five-day choral festival in Powell River filled with concerts, choral and vocal solo competitions, conductors' seminars and social events.
The Slovenian choristers treated their audience to a selection of sacred numbers, European folk songs, and even Canadian content in the form of music by composer R. Murray Schafer: Miniwanka or the Moments of Water uses Indigenous languages Dakota, Wappo, Crow, Chinook, Achomawi, Otchipwe, Salish, Natick, Klamath and Luiseno to describe the transformation of water.
The group's superb musicianship, roof-raising power, and winsome showmanship (culminating in an umbrella-spinning rendition of Raindrops are falling on my head) precipitated numerous standing ovations.
Click here to read more about the choir in an earlier edition of the Coast Reporter's Art Beat.
What an honour it was for St. John's to host these incredible musicians!