This year marks Kokopelli's fourteenth season.  With an average choir size between 45 and 60 singers, and even accounting for our fairly low turnover rate (once people join Koko they never want to leave, it seems!), we still figure that we have well over 200 Kokopelli alumni out there in the world...

This year marks Kokopelli's fourteenth season.  With an average choir size between 45 and 60 singers, and even accounting for our fairly low turnover rate (once people join Koko they never want to leave, it seems!), we still figure that we have well over 200 Kokopelli alumni out there in the world.  (And that's not even counting those who have 'graduated' from Òran or one of Scott Leithead's other former choirs!)

Back in 2006, the choir association held a 10-year reunion to welcome back singers from all over the world, and we had nearly 100 current and former Kokos in attendance for a weekend of events.  We're pretty sure the 20-year reunion is going to need a bigger venue!

Of course, the beauty of the digital age is that while Kokos may travel far and wide, we rarely lose touch entirely.  This week we formed a Kokopelli alumni Facebook group, and as of this writing, we already have 114 members!  A quick scan of the list gives a good summary of where yesterday's Kokos are now living and what they're up to:

• living in Montreal, Halifax, Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., London (England), and Beijing
• attending university, grad school, medical school, law school, radio school, music school -- pretty much every kind of school! -- all over the globe
• working as lawyers, surgeons, teachers, university instructors, computer engineers, musicians (!), pharmacists, business owners, web designers, actors, directors, social workers, chefs, realtors, nurses, and choral conductors
• singing in choirs or other ensembles that specialize in world music, in gospel music, in early music, in classical music, and in jazz
• busily creating the next generation of Kokopelli members -- and a comprehensive count of the Koko offspring is beyond my math skills, but it's safe to say that the Koko babies easily number in the dozens nowadays!  (In fact, one alumna alone accounts for FIVE of them!)

It's easy to be biassed when you're a Kokopelli graduate, but we still think our former Kokos are incredible and are making us proud!