Our history:
We started the Mondays “Singing is Fun” in the Westmount Community Center at VICTORIA HALL around in 1996 (20 years ago!).
And since, we have continued our Monday workshops with the five of us to develop our singing technics and share it with music lovers.
Our Monday workshops had been our oasis of melodies of peace, joy and laughter; while enjoying our singings we continued developing our large repertory of songs.
Our group signature :
‘Creative Singing‘
Each singer has her solo songs and the other singers sing some short parts of the song ( sometimes as back vocals and more often through dialogs, sounds and sometimes through improvisations) offering interesting dynamism and feelings to the song!
All the songs are artistically reorganized by Ira Sokolova and her piano , and upon the character of the songs are interpreted by our different our voices/ timbers!
Recordings :
“HeartFelt Melodies”
(CD published 2024- 2025)
A TRIO , our latest recording,
represents our artistic vocal expressions with piano (and bass)
(We can send you separately more songs if you need to listen to all).
It is the combination of our most flavoured international songs (jazz, blues and other) rearranged by Ira Sokolova, our group leader and pianist.
Each singer has 4 different songs.
Vocals:
Ira Sokolova,
Jane Fisk
Shahrzad Ghaffari
Piano : Ira Sokolova
Accompanied by piano and Bass .
Actual Projects:
Rearrangements of new pop songs in process!
EVENTS:
Performing in private and public cultural/artistic and fundraising events (in cozy places like House of Jazz, Mariposa, etc. as well) .
Sound tracks and Videos:
Our first concert:
“FESTIVAL MONDIAL DE MUSIQUE
Des femme d'ici et d'ailleurs”,
Montreal at Olympic Stadium Park in
August 16-18, 2013
https://youtu.be/xj8pGfP7WLs?si=5Ue1zH3XmjIQh-i7
Presents
Singing Is Fun
Female Vocal Group
Director
Ira Sokolova (Ira S)
Starring
(In alphabetical order)
Cecile Seguin,
Ira S,
Jane Fiske,
Ritsa Hamze,
Shahrzad Ghaffari
Olympic Stadium Park
August 18, 13
Filmed by Daniel Torchinsky
Torch In Sky Productions
29 août 2013
