Kaye Pottie graduated from Acadia University with a Bachelor of Music degree and from the University of Western Ontario with a Master of Music degree in Performance and Literature. She has also studied the Kodaly approach to music education in Hungary.

Kaye Pottie has an intense interest in choral music. She established the Honour Choir system for the Halifax City schools and conducted the Halifax Schools' elementary, youth and high school Honour Choirs. She has been conductor of the Nova Scotia Youth Choir, and is founder of the Chebucto Community Singers, which she conducted for twenty-six years. Mrs. Pottie is a founding member of the Helen Creighton Folklore Festival, the Kodaly Institute of Canada, the Kodaly Society of Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Choral Federation and the Nova Scotia Music Educators' Association, the last four of which have awarded her Honorary Life Memberships.
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