You’re invited to come and see a brand new line of performances in our 50th Anniversary Fall 2025 Noon Hour Concert Series! Admission to the building is free, and a sandwich lunch is available for purchase prior to each recital between 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., with the concerts beginning at 12:15 p.m.
About Lacoste & MacDairmid
Debra Lacoste is a freelance trumpet soloist, member of the Full House Brass quintet, a private music instructor, and Director of the community service choir Fireside Voices. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Music degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, a Master of Arts and PhD in musicology from Western University, and an ARCT in Trumpet Performance. She has taught music history and trumpet studio at local universities and manages the Cantus Database. This online research tool for Gregorian chant, now based at Dalhousie University in Halifax, is part of a university network of Digital Humanities research projects supported by the Canadian government’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She is also the Director and General Editor of The Institute of Mediaeval Music, a publishing company for academic books.
Ann-Marie MacDairmid graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Music degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master of Music degree in organ performance from The University of Western Ontario.
In April 2022, Ann-Marie took the position as Director of Music at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Kitchener. In addition to the usual church music director role, the position at St Andrew’s includes serving as the Artistic Director for the Noon Hour Concert Series. The schedule includes weekly performances by various musicians in the fall and spring. As a performer in the series, Ann-Marie plans her recital programs to reflect eclectic musical tastes, the most noted being her “Hallowe’en Special”. She enjoys choosing a ‘theme’ and then incorporating the music ranging from dazzling pedal solos to ragtime to gospel preludes.
Ann-Marie is the accompanist for the Grand River Chorus (GRC) in Brantford. GRC performs four concerts each season, and during the past 26 years, programs have included; Messiah, Elijah, Israel in Egypt, Missa Gaia, and requiem masses by Brahms, Durufle and Faure. In 2010, the choir toured to Germany, Czech Republic and Austria.
In Kitchener, Ann-Marie directs the Queen Street Singers. QSS sings at local church services, entertains at fundraisers and on several occasions have performed at the Christkindl Market in Kitchener.
Ann-Marie is an accomplished pianist, percussionist and choral conductor. She prepares programs in a wide variety of musical genres including Baroque, Classical, Spiritual, Gospel, Big Band, Jazz and Blues, Folk, African, Broadway, Movie and Canadian music. She teaches music lessons locally and freelances as a piano accompanist and organist throughout Southwestern Ontario.
Ann-Marie is the founder, director and accompanist of Shoreline Chorus in Owen Sound. Shoreline is currently in its 26th season. Programs are offered throughout the year including fall, Christmas, spring and summer. All the programs have a theme. Choristers are in the local community and surrounding areas. Shoreline have traveled on choir trips including Cuba, Ireland, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain and in the spring of 2026, France.
In June 2025 Ann-Marie received a June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism, which recognizes people for their “exceptional contributions to their communities and the province of Ontario". Ann-Marie's leadership of Shoreline Chorus, which she developed and continues to manage entirely as a volunteer, has created opportunity for engagement through concerts supporting many volunteer community activities including local food banks, therapeutic riding programs, and church outreach initiatives.
In December 2010 Ann-Marie received a Paul Harris Fellow award from the Thornbury-Clarksburg Rotary Club for service in Rotary and in the community.