Vancouver students win international choir competition
Students from Vancouver's Lord Byng Secondary School took home the top prize at one the largest competitive choir festivals in the world — Spain's Golden Voices of Montserrat Festival. Choir members Annie Song Wang and Shea Liu, and the school's choir director Lisa Lan, showed off the pipes that wowed the world on CBC's The Early Edition.
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