Carrie Loring

Best known as longtime host of TV Ontario's Polka Dot Door (1971), Carrie Loring has toured coast to coast in Canada with numerous children's shows involving singing, storytelling, mime, and puppetry. Carrie has sung with Tafelmusik, Opera Atelier, Choir 21, The Elmer Iseler Singers, Elora Festival Singers, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Soundstreams, The Art of Time, Bach Festival Singers, Black Creek Festival, Tallis Choir, Toronto Consort, The National Ballet of Canada, The Toronto Summer Music Festival, and the Theatre of Early Music. She has performed as a studio singer in television and film, and has sung on 25 CD recordings. Enjoying the challenge of singing in different styles, Carrie has sung back-up vocals for Roger Hodgson (Supertramp), performed in the cast of Sondheim in September, and can be heard in both the TV series The Borgias (2011) and The Tudors (2007), most notably under the beheading of Anne Boleyn! Carrie is a vocal coach and the Director of the Kinder and Preparato