About the Silvertones

About

Our Mission: To provide an avenue for active and older adults to sing for joy, health and camaraderie regardless of experience and expertise.

The Silvertones Senior Choir is a non-auditioned community based vocal choir with 120 voices, providing an avenue for active and older adults to sing for joy, health and camaraderie.

Participants gather weekly for rehearsals, vocal warm-up exercises, to learn effective vocal technique, and to practice the songs chosen for that session. The conductor chooses selections fitting a common theme and ranging in difficulty from pieces sung in unison to selections in four-part harmony. Overall, the program fosters friendships, laughter, and social connection.

Members do not need to audition and they don't need to know how to read music. This means that our members span all musical skill, educational, and experience levels, from complete beginner to advanced singers. Silvertones Senior Choir members experience the pure joy of making music.

The Silvertones Senior Choir season consists of two fourteen-week sessions culminating in public performances. For participation details, please take a look at our register to sing page.

History

In 2012, the Larimer Chorale created an outreach choir program that provided an avenue for active older adults to engage in recreational singing and to realize their wellness and life-long learning goals. Larimer Chorale Artistic Director, Michael Todd Krueger, and retired Executive Director, Wendy D. White, conceived the idea for a senior choir after a city-wide study demonstrated the need for novel and complex recreational activities for the area's growing senior population. The choir is called the Silvertones Senior Choir, a name chosen by the members themselves.

In 2023, The Silvertones Senior Choir moved from being an outreach program of the Larimer Chorale to being a member ensemble of the Larimer Choral Society.