“Count me in!” A.J. Voss-Wood, 2019
“I enthusiastically gave a resounding “Yes!!” when my student suggested this quote for our Bluefield T-shirts. It expresses important values for me: bringing community musicians together, fostering a sense of belonging, and sharing the enthusiasm of playing in a concert band! And of course, the double meaning is SO funny for musicians!” C. Blanchard 2022
Christine believes very strongly in the value of community ensembles and developing a strong tie between public school and community bands . She is currently the conductor of the Holland College Community Concert Band “The Welshmen”, a role she has held since January 2015, and has been a music educator for more than 27 years.
Most recently, Christine was director of the Cape Breton Community Bandfest in October 2021 and is now a Member at Large for the Nova Scotia Band Association. She has also adjudicated at festivals and provided clinics in Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario.
In her role as a music educator on Prince Edward Island, she has directed concert bands, jazz ensembles, and R&B bands at the intermediate and senior high school level. These groups have achieved great success at local music festivals and on performance tours to Montreal, Newfoundland, and, most notably, Cuba in 2011.
In addition to directing ensembles, she has contributed to music education on PEI by co-writing instrumental performance, vocal performance, and popular music performance pieces, and developed the history of popular music curricula between the years 1998 -2019. Christine also initiated the development of the PEI Senior High Honours Band in 1999.
Christine was awarded 2019 Music Educator of the Year by MusicPEI.
