Hello Chorus Members,

 

First, a reminder that the exec board will meet next Monday, Feb 21st, starting at 7:00pm.  Tonight's meeting included a presentation from Brian O'Leary of the revised qualification procedure approved by the music committee, and sent to all chorus members in a separate email yesterday.

 

We reviewed both our new trolley songs, along with "Red Roses For A Blue Lady", for our annual show.  Mark introduced us to "Crusing Down the River", which is also designated for our annual show.  If any of you snowbirds need copies of the above mentioned songs, please let me know.  The new trolley songs includes "You're A Grand Old Flag", "Yankee Doodle Boy", "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands", and "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling".  Mark has selected two more songs for the annual show which are "Chattanooga Choom Choo", and "Beginning to See the Light."  Rehearsal dates for these two song will be announced soon.

 

Upcoming events include the St .Patrick's day parade on March 13th, which is preceded by our extra rehearsal of our competition songs on March 12th.  This competition will be in East Greenwich, R.I., with details available on the NED web site; this event takes place on March 19th.  I will release details as soon as they are available.  The sign up sheet for both the parade and competition will be available next Wednesday.  Due to some logistical matters, the deadline for  group registration has not yet been announced.  I would guess it will be by the end of this month, however.  See Dan Donovan for details on the parade.

 

We did have twenty-one "Singing Valentines" this year, as we have competition for this fund raiser, and the recent bad weather did not help.  We may have to consider additional fund raising activities to make up the difference for monies not earned on this event, (my opinion). 

 

I will end with a reminder that those of us that attended "Leadership Academy" should create a short report for our "Keynotes" publication. 

 

Thank you,