The Acorn – April 10, 2025 – OCS Weekly News
| Type of post: | Chorus news item |
| Sub-type: | The Acorn |
| Posted By: | Eva Snapp |
| Status: | Current |
| Date Posted: | Thu, Apr 10 2025 |
The Acorn – April 10, 2025 – OCS Weekly News
1. High Notes
3. Carol's Cadence
Everyone did GREAT at contest! It was fantastic.
4. Accelerando
5. In Harmony (Around the BHS World)
6. Major & Minor Moods
Please send our friends your prayers & best wishes!
1. High Notes
- April 4-5, Convention/Contest: Good times were had by all! Thanks to your hard work, and it was wonderful to sing with friends from across the Carolinas district.
- April 7 (Monday):
- Welcome more new friends! Ivan Tang came to visit us and hopes to return with his wife as well. Sonna and Percy were both on the risers.
- Good job rehearsing our various songs as we prepare for TWO upcoming concerts (Apr 21 and 28). Keep working on Battle Hymn for our Memorial Day concerts.
- April 14 (Monday): Normal time/place: 4000 Glenaire Circle, Cary.
- 5:30p – Board Meeting. Any and everyone welcome to attend!
- 6:45p: Mixed chorus
- 8p: Business meeting & break
- 8:15p: Men’s chorus
- Chapter 50TH Anniversary / Committee:
- OH MY!! We need to make some plans for this!! Have an idea? Want to join the committee? Let us know!
- Donate to our monthly raffles!! Next up is Starbucks gift cards…
- Any Concert Suggestions? – The more organizational funding we get from group concerts, the less formal fundraising we have to do. Contact our Marketing VP Bob Inskeep with any ideas.
3. Carol's Cadence
Everyone did GREAT at contest! It was fantastic.
- What I took from this was… Judges are ultimately looking for “the connection of brain to heart to mouth.” So sing from that place.
- As we expected, our judges evaluations were very similar to what we hear every week.
- Watch the recorded livestreams – especially the choruses – and see what you take away!
- https://www.youtube.com/@carolinasdistrictofthebarb1428
- Chorus Contest recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/yKV9s4OEtUA?si=zTZ2k6KzTfbkKvkR
- Quartet Top-10 Finalists: https://www.youtube.com/live/G87LUqpUrDk?si=o2y3MMgnKL6eT-l1
4. Accelerando
- April 21 (Mon), 7pm: Woodland Terrace (Cary)
- April 28 (Mon), 7pm: Springmoor
- May 12 (Mon), 7p: Searstone (new theatre)
- May 19 (Mon), 7pm: Springmoor, Memorial Day Theme – featured speaker Vern Pike!
- June 8 (Sunday), 3pm: Preston Pointe
- July 13 (Sunday): TENTATIVE
- Aug 4 (Monday), 7pm: The Cardinal
- December 1 (Mon): Whispering Pines
- December 8 (Mon): The Cardinal
- December 15 (Mon), 7pm: Springmoor
- December 22 (Mon), 7pm: Waltonwood (Lake Boone Trail)
- ~ April 2026 ~ 2026 Carolinas District Convention & Contest – Asheville, N.C.
5. In Harmony (Around the BHS World)
- Upcoming events:
- June 29 – July 6: International Convention, Denver, Colorado
- July 18 – 20, 2025: Lakeside Harmony Weekend, Furman University, Greenville, S.C. à LINKS NOT YET UPDATED FOR 2025: https://www.carolinasdistrict.org/event/lakeside-harmony-weekend-harmony-explosion-camp/ or https://lakesideharmony.org/
6. Major & Minor Moods
Please send our friends your prayers & best wishes!
- Thanks to Mark Roblez for donating his time and money to set up OCS on Meetup. If you join and respond to the events, it will help further promote our group and help other singers find us!
- Go to Meetup.com or the Meetup app.
- Search for “Raleigh Area A Cappella Singing Meetup Group.”
- Click on “Join Group” and then click “Attend” to RSVP to a rehearsal. (Hint, just RSVP to all of them… this isn’t a formal attendance check – it’s a great promotional tool!)
- As a reminder, you can find Ashley Vernon’s tags on the GoodTags app. The one we sang this week is searchable as #6929, “Plaisir d’Amour.”
