Live performance of Ignite by Canadian composer Emile Deedes-Vincke by North Sky Chorale in Saskatoon, SK. May 2023

Raising voices, raising spirits Ignite Gospel Choir was founded by Keara Sheeran... In Oct of 2008 I returned to the Jes church, the place I had grown up with my father running the folk mass choir. He had retired 12 years previously. What was once a p...  moreRaising voices, raising spirits Ignite Gospel Choir was founded by Keara Sheeran... In Oct of 2008 I returned to the Jes church, the place I had grown up with my father running the folk mass choir. He had retired 12 years previously. What was once a packed out mass full of joy and prayer, families and young couples, singles and religious, was now a quieter mass with no choir and I saddened by this. I offered my services as a singer and musician to come and provide music for the 5:30 mass and within a few short weeks I returned to the place I consider my spiritual home. I had not purposely set out to start a choir but people began to approach me with a desire to sing and it was a need within the community I was not going to Ignore. On the 12th Dec 2008 The Jes Gospel Choir was birthed with 5 singers and me & it was a wonderful experience and we received a very warm welcome. Within a year the choir grew to over 15 members and some musicians. The wonderful thing about this choir is that it is a choir th...    less

Recording live at St. Josephs Church

Ignite Gospel Choir was founded by Keara Sheeran… In Oct of 2008 I returned to the Jes church, the place I had grown up with my father running the folk mass choir. He had retired 12 years previously. What was once a packed out mass full of joy and pray...  moreIgnite Gospel Choir was founded by Keara Sheeran… In Oct of 2008 I returned to the Jes church, the place I had grown up with my father running the folk mass choir. He had retired 12 years previously. What was once a packed out mass full of joy and prayer, families and young couples, singles and religious, was now a quieter mass with no choir and I saddened by this. I offered my services as a singer and musician to come and provide music for the 5:30 mass and within a few short weeks I returned to the place I consider my spiritual home. I had not purposely set out to start a choir but people began to approach me with a desire to sing and it was a need within the community I was not going to Ignore. On the 12th Dec 2008 The Jes Gospel Choir was birthed with 5 singers and me & it was a wonderful experience and we received a very warm welcome. Within a year the choir grew to over 15 members and some musicians. The wonderful thing about this choir is that it is a choir that breathes. People hav...    less

CROSSING THE BAR music: Nilo Alcala poem: Alfred, Lord Tennyson WINNER: Ignite Composition Commissioning Competition 2017-18 performed by: C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective “Water Music” concert conducted by: Benjamin Arendsen solo...  moreCROSSING THE BAR music: Nilo Alcala poem: Alfred, Lord Tennyson WINNER: Ignite Composition Commissioning Competition 2017-18 performed by: C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective “Water Music” concert conducted by: Benjamin Arendsen soloists: Soloists: Artemisz Polonyi and Maya Webne-Behrman recording: Noriko Okabe Recorded live June 9, 2018 Church of St. Luke in the Fields, Manhattan, NY