Highlands Festival Singers

09/08/2026

What happens the first Tuesday after Labour Day?
Choir rehearsals begin! 🎶

Where: Haliburton United Church (10 George St, Haliburton)
When: Tuesdays at 7-9pm
Cost: $50/term

Requirements: Love to sing!
Singing experience and reading music are assets. This is a non-audition choir.

You are welcome to come out tonight or next week and try it out!
Message us here if you have any questions!

04/09/2026

Please join us for our upcoming spring concert! 🎶 Melissa's favourite composers include John Rutter, Eric Whitacre, Mark Hayes, Morten Lauridsen and more!

Sunday, May 3 at 3pm and Tuesday, May 5 at 7pm

Tickets available at Master's Bookstore and Redmen Records in Haliburton as well as Minden Pharmasave. SEE YOU THERE!

02/13/2026

Our next concert is music by Melissa Stephen’s favourite composters. Eric Whitacre is high on the list of favourites.

One of the pieces, “Sleep”, is discussed here Eric Whitacre himself.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1KZCdQvZJ2/?mibextid=wwXIfr

01/20/2026

Tonight's rehearsal (Jan 20) is cancelled due to the road conditions.

Melissa will be sending out music and rehearsal tracks for members to review for next week's practice.

When you receive the cancellation email, please be sure to respond so we know you know!

See you next week!

12/30/2025

IT’S TIME TO THINK ABOUT YOUR AUDITION! GRAB THE AUDITION PACKAGE AT www.highlandssummerfestival.on.ca

12/07/2025

A few more photos from our pre-concert potluck!

12/07/2025

HFS Restaurant? Well, no, but the food for our dress rehearsal potluck was restaurant-quality for sure! 👏

💕 Thank you to the set up team - we appreciate you!
💕 Thank you to Beth for leading us in a carol sing!

What a perfect evening leading up to our concert weekend! 🎶

12/07/2025

The choir wishes to extend its heartfelt thanks to

❤️ West Guildford Shopping Centre
❤️ Haliburton and District Lions Club
❤️ Rotary Club of Haliburton

For helping make our this weekend’s performances of Handel’s Messiah possible!

12/04/2025

Please check out our feature on the CanoeFM Country Closeup!

We hope to see you all at the concerts this weekend!

The Highlands festival Singers are in their 34rth year of entertaining audiences in Haliburton. In that time, they’ve performed Handel’s Messiah eight times and this year they’re bringing it back to…

12/03/2025

🌟 Our Choir on the Radio Today! Tune in at 12:05pm 🎶

Just a quick (and very exciting!) note to let you know that the CanoeFM story featuring our choir is airing today on County Closeup with Elizabeth Oakley at 12:05pm! 🎤📻

If you can, please tune in and enjoy hearing our group being celebrated on the air. Feel free to share the news with family and friends too—what a lovely way to spread the word about our choir community.

Thank you, Christine Jonas-Simpson, for letting us know! 💛

Happy listening!