WINNIPEG, MB

For more than thirty years, Winnipeg singers delighted audiences on Sunday afternoons on the hit CBC television show ‘Hymn Sing’. Many former ‘Hymn Sing’ members have gone on to do great things. We’ve caught up with a few of them to find out about their post-Hymn Sing lives.

Barney Loewen (1972-1983) – “Once I left Hymn Sing my life was a mess. I tried to salvage a music career after that, even taught piano lessons for a while, but eventually I got involved in the Winnipeg underground punk rock scene. I played lead guitar for a band called the Depraved Mennos. You may have heard of us. Our LP is a collector’s item now. It’s so rare, I don’t even have a copy myself. Can anyone hook me up with one?”

Allen Giesbrecht (1965-1967) – “I was Altona’s first ever Rhodes Scholar and

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