The Acorn – Nov. 25, 2025 – OCS Weekly News - Holiday Singers, Oak City Sound, Oak City Sound - (mixed)

Type of post: Chorus news item
Sub-type: The Acorn
Posted By: Evie Snapp
Status: Current
Date Posted: Tue, Nov 25 2025
The Acorn – Nov. 25, 2025 – OCS Weekly News

1. High Notes
  • New Vote: MEMBERS & FUTURE / INTERESTED MEMBERS: Please vote on which date/format you would prefer for our January banquet. This is an annual celebration to:
  1. Present annual awards.
  2. Welcome and install the new board.
  3. Socialize and get to know each other better!
  • Concert Tickets are running out! There are around 40 tickets left for our December 16 show at Halle Cultural Center. TO BUY TICKETS:
    • Direct link to ordering page:  https://tinyurl.com/OCStix25
    • OR To navigate through the website: Go to oakcitysound.org
    • Click the white highlighted button on the top image that says “Click here for Details & Ordering.”
    • When the “Songs of the Season” page opens, click the “scheduled event” link in the third paragraph.
    • When the event page opens, click the red picture of tickets that says “buy tickets!”
    • Choose your options in the dropdown menu, “Add to Cart,” and complete the process.
  • Dec. 1 (Mon) – CONCERT / short rehearsal after
    • Holiday Chorus, Mixed Chorus and Men’s Chorus will sing. Don’t forget to bring your music binder!
    • Women will sing Silent Night this week!
    • Call times:  6:15p for Mixed & Men’s. 7:00p for Holiday Chorus.
      • Performance starts at 7pm
    • Wear your HOLIDAY outfit.
    • Location is Whispering Pines Cary: 7501 Lead Mine Rd, Raleigh, NC 27615
    • If you have been a guest at one of our rehearsals and aren’t planning to sing with the Holiday Chorus, you are welcome to attend and watch.
    • As Carol said this week, new singers can join the Mixed or Men’s chorus for certain songs if they feel comfortable and have the song memorized.
    • We WILL have a short rehearsal AFTER the hour-long show.

2. Overtures
  • Meetup Group – Remember to RSVP for each rehearsal and afterward, RATE us on Meetup. We are listed under Oak City Sound or “Raleigh Area A Cappella Singing Meetup Group.”
  • N.C. State Home Game Concessions – Last one!  https://tinyurl.com/25OCSconcess
    • Final game is Nov. 29.
  • New name badges are here! How do you get one?
    • Work a shift at NCSU home game concessions – no cost.
    • Join as a NEW OCS member – no cost.
    • Current members – replace for $20 (reach out to Warren).
  • Fundraiser or Concert Suggestions? – Contact a member of the board and let us know.

3. Carol's Cadence
  • What a fantastic first performance of the season! Thanks to you all for your early arrival and preparation. It's going to be a great season of music making. Please stay healthy as the weather cools down and our schedule ramps up.
  • Happy Thanksgiving!
  • Performance order for Dec. 1 at Whispering Pines
    1. It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year     (Mixed)
    2. Gloucestershire Wassail         (Mixed)
    3. Quartet: Never Home Four – Grandma’s Killer Fruitcake + 1
    4. What Child is This                  (Men’s)
    5. Audience Singalong:  Jingle Bells
    6. Winter Wonderland    (Men’s)
    7. Jingle Bell Rock         (Men’s)
    8. Silent Night    (Women’s)
    9. Audience Singalong:  Deck the Halls
    10. S’vivon           (Mixed)
    11. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas       (Mixed)
    12. Quartet: Metro Gnomes – Jolly Old St. Nicholas
    13. Carol of the Bells       (Holiday Chorus)
    14. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas          (Holiday Chorus)
    15. Holly Jolly Christmas            (Holiday Chorus)
    16. Mele Kalikimaka        (Holiday Chorus)

4. Accelerando
HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES – where Holiday Chorus members are invited to perform!: Times listed below are PERFORMANCE start times. CALL times will be earlier!
  • December 1 (Mon), 7pm: Whispering Pines  (Performance)
  • December 8 (Mon), 7pm: The Cardinal  (Performance)
  • December 15 (Mon), 7pm: Springmoor  (Performance)
  • December 16 (Tuesday – 7:30pm): Holiday Show (public concert) – Halle Cultural Arts Center (downtown Apex)    (Performance)
    • Regular Chorus call time TENATIVE: 5p
    • Holiday Chorus call time TENTATIVE: 5:45pm
  • December 22 (Mon), 7pm: Waltonwood (Lake Boone Trail)  (Performance)
  • December 29 (Mon): Time TBD – Sing-out at the main Rex Hospital – Holiday Chorus members are invited to join us!
2026 Dates:
  • January will mark the beginning of rehearsals at Glenaire, 4000 Glenaire Circle, Cary.
  • Jan. 12 or 16 will be our awards/installation party (VOTE ABOVE if you haven’t!)
  • April 17-18:  District Convention & Contest (Hendersonville, N.C.) – optional, but most members try to go. Our chorus usually sings for evaluation scores. Any of our quartets plan to compete?!

5. Festivo (Holiday)
  • Holiday Chorus reminders:
    • Practice the HC songs (below) – no need to memorize.
    • No fee, no special costume – we will again do a solid-color holiday top/sweater and black bottoms.
    • HC singers are invited to sing at our holiday concert (Dec. 16, Tuesday) and/or at any of our holiday shows at various locations (Nov. 24 & Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22)
    • HC Songs are:
      • Carol of the Bells
      • Holly Jolly Christmas
      • Mele Kalikimaka
      • I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

6. In Harmony  (Around the BHS World)
  • Jan 13 – 18, 2026:  BHS Midwinter, Pasadena, California.
  • April 17 – 18, 2026:  Carolinas District Convention & Contest (2026)
  • June 28 – July 5, 2026: BHS International (2026) – St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Future International locations: 2027 – Minneapolis, MN; 2028 – Chicago, Ill.; 2029 – San Antonio, Texas

7. Major & Minor Moods
Please send our friends your prayers & best wishes!
  • Happy Thanksgiving! We’re grateful for each and every one of you. When we combine our voices, we’re truly operating in concert.