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stux carrie g love singing weekender february 12 1994 p17 five years in canada have done nothing to take the edge off carrie garrett s engaging irish accent lb talk to her for the first time is to think you have suddenly been transported to the land of the shamrock but when the congenial dublin nativetumedstoufrvillite opens her mouth to sing she unleashes a voice as controlled and power ful as her brogue is endearing carrie is a mezzo soprano who loves nothing better than to wrap her well trained vocal chords around such classics as ave maria and panis angelicus as a young girl in primary school in dublin she remembers being taken in hand by a teacher with a musical bent who had her up on the school stage doing solos at the age of five she starred in school musical productions throughout her pri mary and secondary school career getting to perform her favourite numbers in such pre sentations as the sound of music the gondoliers and the machado from the age of 10 she was a perennial winner at irelands annual music festival the feif ceoil mesmerizing judges and audiences alike with her light opera offerings at the age of 12 she was put under the direction of noted blind irish voice trainer dan mcnulty so forceful was her voice she would always refuse to use a microphone when singing at weddings or in churches which she was constantly being asked to do but as so often happens with talent of her kind carrie has put her singing on the back burner as she goes about the business of raising her two chil dren suzanne and sean the tribune the saturday stouffville tribune paper is available at the following stores stouffville 18 rlngwood dr ringwood variety 5892 main st ap 1001 variety 6601 main st success square convenience market 6757 main tenth cone success smoke variety musselmanslake 14635 ninth line maryannes variety claremont central avejoid brock rd claremont comer store home delivery 6402100 fax 6405477 the saturday uxbridge paper is available at the following 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the municipal elec tion in 199l last january she was approached by the towns recre ation department to sing the national anthem at the annual recognition of athletes ceremo ny she was back again this year causing adults and kids alike to stand in awe as she delivered her resounding rendition of o cana da carrie admits to a certain frus tration from not being able to put her voice to better use these days she would love nothing better than to be able to sing at weddings and other formal func tions and hopes the opportuni ties will eventually come her way shes not looking to make a career of it preferring to sing simply for the fun of it for now ideally shed like to become part of a group of amateur singers looking to strut their stuff in the meantime she sings to her children as well as to the young tots she looks after during the day the young ones love it and have responded by becoming the most musical children in stouffville according to carrie youngsters carrie maintains will listen 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