Kelman Hall Publishing was founded in the Spring of 1998.  Lynn McRuer and her husband, Bill Labron are owners of Music Plus Corporation and Kelman Hall Publishing became a division of their music enterprise. They asked Dr. Peter Nikiforuk to be the editor/typesetter. Lynn and Bill decided to focus on Canadian composers and sought out quality choral music from across the nation. The name “Kelman Hall” is derived from the maiden names of their mothers! It sounds dignified and reveals a Scottish/English heritage.

Over the years Lynn and Bill have become synonymous with the thriving Kitchener-Waterloo music community. When Music Plus Corporation, staffed by talented professional musicians, moved to a spacious old factory in downtown Kitchener, they welcomed the Beckett School of Piano. They rented facilities to Saxonia Music (instrument repairs), thus fulfilling Lynn McRuer’s dream of a real “Music Factory” – lessons in all instruments, retail, print music, instrument sales, repairs, and even musical giftware. Thousands of people have received an impassioned and affirming music education through their excellent service. Lynn says, “Music has a pull. It is healing and passionate and cultural.  It isn’t just a cerebral exercise.” Bill says, “The mantra behind what we do is ‘building community through music,’” Cypress Choral Music Inc. is honoured and proud to feature the Kelman Hall Publishing catalogue and carry on the vision of Lynn McRuer and Bill Labron – the dynamo duo from Southern Ontario.

Cypress acquired the Kelman Hall catalogue in October, 2020. Proper webpages are in progress but all titles are available;
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