ECHO!! Revived -- Bongani Magatyana Workshop

Founded in 1991, Echo is a non-auditioned community choir, open to women of all ages from a diversity of cultural, racial and religious backgrounds. We sing an eclectic repertoire, including world music, Canadian compositions, and songs that address social justice, the environment, and world peace. Echo presents two concerts each year, featuring guest artists who have worked with the choir to introduce new skills, insights and songs. In October 2023, Echo hosted a visit by South African choral composer and teacher Bongani Magatyana. In conjunction with the Toronto Children’s Concert Choir (TC3), our choir shared workshops with Chief Dan George Public School and Sistema Toronto, besides an evening workshop for our own choir and a full-weekend public workshop. This was part of a pandemic initiative by Echo to expand its engagement with a diversity of communities in Toronto and the GTA. The video is part of the ECHO!! Revived project, funded by a Canada Council for the Arts Digital Now grant. We are deeply grateful for this government commitment to Community Music and the Arts in Canada; and we acknowledge ongoing support from the Toronto Arts Council. Directed, filmed and edited by Carlos Coronado, https://www.coronadofilms.ca/ Connect with the Echo Choir: https://www.echochoir.ca/