1. High Notes

• Nov 11: Fifth Oak City Sound Holiday Singers meeting. So far we've made reat progressWe are almost there!  We OCS are so grateful for the great boost you're providing to the music.
• Nov 17: Join us if you are available at The Templeton (215 Brightmore Dr, Cary, NC 27518) Friday afternoon at 2:00 for an optional additional practice of the Holiday Chorus song set.. You can refer to Carol's email from last week for details.
• Nov 20: Special rehearsal for OCS Holiday Chorus, followed by OCS regular practice. The usual meeting place (Searstone)
  • 7pm to 7:45: Oak City Sound Holiday Chorus. We will run the entire set:
    • Carol of the BellsDo You Hear What I Hear?
    • Away in a Manger - also a sing-along
    • Jingle Bells - also a sing-along
    • It Came Upon a Silent Night
  • 7:50 to 9:30: We will run the entire OCS song set for the entire Dec 5 show, which follows:
    • We Need a Little Christmas
    • Songs of Christmas
    • Christmas Through Your Eyes
    • Quartet - Impromptu or NH4
    • Sing-along (Rudolph??)
    • Please Come Home for Christmas
    • Jingle Bell Rock
    • A Christmas Carol
    • Quartet - NH4 or Impromptu
    • Sing-along (Frosty??)
    • Light the Legend
    • It's a Hanukkah Song (in a Major Key)
    • March of the Wooden Soldiers
    • INTERMISSION 
    • Holiday Chorus Set (practiced during Holiday Chorus time above)
    • Mele Kalikimaka (OCS)
• Nov 25 (Saturday): Last NC State Football Game concession. Game and call times are TBD.
• Please start telling your friends and acquaintances about our Christmas Concert at the Cary Arts Center on Tuesday Dec 5. 
  • Unlike our other performances throughout the year, we ourselves are responsible for selling our own tickets for this show. 
  • Mike has sent out an email to you all that you can forward to your own mailing list (like everyone!!).
  • You can also direct your friends to Oak City Sound - Home 
  • Holiday Chorus members will get two tickets so that you can enjoy the first part of the show (using one ticket) with a friend (using the second ticket), then at intermission, go back stage in preparation for the second half with the Holiday Chorus
• Another important aspect of the Show is selling advertising space in the show program. Please approach the businesses you trade at and ask them to take out an Ad.
  • Oak City Sound has for decades been a strong active supporter of vocal music in middle and high schools throughout Wake County. 
  • All Ads need to be sold by Nov 27. 
  • The Ad Rate Card is at ShowSponsorAndAdForm2023.pdf (oakcitysound.org) , so it's good to have this info handy when you talk to a prospective donor: ShowSponsorAndAdForm2023.pdf (oakcitysound.org). 
• Special request to Holiday Chorus singers: In addition to the Dec 5 concert at Cary Arts Center, you are invited to sing in any of our Christmas concerts. Please respond to ncols21@gmail.com to let us know which concerts you would be able to perform in.
  • All are on Mondays: Nov 27, Dec 4, Dec 11, and Dec 18 (note correction of last week's Acorn).
  • Call times will be about 6:00pm or so.
  • Program will only be about an hour in length.
• Nov 27 (Monday) - Our FIRST Holiday Concert at The Templeton
  • Call time is 6:15pm
  • 215 Brightmore Dr, Cary, NC 27518

2. Carol's Korner

• Keep putting in the work to make this music - and especially the words - instinctive and consistent. We are a week away from our first performance!

3. Future Notes

• Dec 4 (Monday) - Holiday Concert at Springmoor
• Dec 5 (Tuesday) - Holiday Concert at Cary Arts Center
• Dec 11 (Monday) - Holiday Concert at Whispering Pines
• Dec 18 (Monday) - Holiday Concert at Searstone

4. Long Range

• January TBD: Chorus "Installation" Banquet
• February 14 Wednesday: Singing Valentines!!
• April 19 to 21: Carolinas District Convention in Pinehurst NC