The Acorn - Dec. 18, 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: | Mike Muha |
| Status: | Current |
| Date Posted: | Sat, Dec 20 2025 |
The Acorn – Dec. 18, 2025 – OCS Weekly News
1. High Notes
3. Carol's Cadence
4. Accelerando
HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES – where Holiday Chorus members are invited to perform!: Times listed below are PERFORMANCE start times. CALL times will be earlier!
5. In Harmony (Around the BHS World)
6. Major & Minor Moods
Please send our friends your prayers & best wishes!
1. High Notes
- Dec. 22 (Mon) – CONCERT / short rehearsal after: Waltonwood Lake Boone
- 6:30p Call for Mixed & Men’s.
- 7:00p Call for Holiday Chorus.
- Performance starts at 7pm
- Holiday Chorus, Mixed Chorus and Men’s Chorus will sing. Don’t forget to bring your music binder!
- Wear your HOLIDAY outfit – festive, solid-color shirt, black everything else.
- Location is Waltonwood - Lake Boone: 3550 Horton Street, Raleigh, 27607
- Dec. 29 (Mon) – Caroling at Rex Hospital
- EVERYONE is invited to join us as we are escorted around nurses’ stations, etc.
- 6:30p Call time. Singing from 7p – 8p.
- Singers must sign an NDA form on-site – a standard thing we’ve been required to do in years past.
- There will be NO rehearsal that night.
- Jan. 5 (Mon) – regular rehearsal resumes at Glenaire.
- We will return to our regular schedule:
- 6:45p for Mixed
- 8:00p for Business meeting / break
- 8:30p for Men’s
- Do You Like Your Part?? Does it like or fit you?
- If the part you’ve been singing doesn't feel like the best place for you, January will be a good time to possibly change to a new voice part.
- We have some new music coming in 2026 and the spring convention and chorus contest in April.
- If you would like to do some vocalizing one-on-one with Carol, send her a quick email at carolstep@gmail.com with the subject line “PART CHECK” – and we'll set up a time and location early in the new year.
- 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.”
- Fundraiser or Concert Suggestions? – Contact a member of the board and let us know.
3. Carol's Cadence
- What a FUN ride that was on Tuesday night! You sure caught me by surprise several times!
- Thank you so much for all of the hard work, for inviting people to come to the show, and for the generous gifts and touching notes you shared with me.
- I hope you are all proud of the great show you put on the stage and the wonderful camaraderie you shared with each other and our audience. Let's keep riding this wave!!
- Performance order for Dec. 22 at Waltonwood
- It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Mixed)
- Gloucestershire Wassail (Mixed)
- Quartet: Gingerbread Men – Auld Lang Syne
- Audience Singalong: Jingle Bells
- Christmastime is Here (Men’s)
- Winter Wonderland (Men’s)
- Jingle Bell Rock (Men’s)
- VLQ: Mary Did You Know
- Audience Singalong: Deck the Halls
- S’vivon (Mixed)
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Mixed)
- Quartet: Metro Gnomes – Jolly Old St. Nicholas
- Carol of the Bells (Holiday Chorus)
- I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Holiday Chorus)
- Holly Jolly Christmas (Holiday Chorus)
- 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 22 (Mon), 7pm: Waltonwood (Lake Boone Trail) (Performance)
- December 29 (Mon): 7pm: Caroling at UNC Rex Hospital. Call is 6:30pm. Holiday Chorus members are invited to join us!
- January will mark the beginning of rehearsals at Glenaire, 4000 Glenaire Circle, Cary.
- Jan. 12 will be our awards/installation celebration
- 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. In Harmony (Around the BHS World)
- Jan 13 – 18, 2026: BHS Midwinter, Pasadena, California.
- April 17 – 18, 2026: Carolinas District Convention & Contest (2026)
- Hendersonville, N.C.
- Cost, venue, and hotel info TBD; https://www.carolinasdistrict.org/event/nsc-2026-convention-2/
- June 28 – July 5, 2026: BHS International (2026) – St. Louis, Missouri.
- Future International locations: 2027 – Minneapolis, MN; 2028 – Chicago, Ill.; 2029 – San Antonio, Texas
6. Major & Minor Moods
Please send our friends your prayers & best wishes!
- However you celebrate – or just rest – enjoy the holidays!
