1. Notes for this week

• Our next meeting is Monday June 20 at our usual meeting place, Searstone Retirement Village, at 7pm. Please fill out the Attendance Planner on the Member Home page.
• We were delighted to see two of our guests from May 13's special Guest Night returning for a fourth visit this past Monday.: Steve McGehee and John Quick. We are so glad to have so many new singers and friends in our group
• Mike Muha directed in Carol’s absence.  We ran through our possible songs for Searstone but skipped the Christmas music. 
• Carol Stephenson and Warren Fuson have tested positive for COVID in the past week. Please let us know if you develop symptoms, and if you take a test, and what the test results were. Thanks
  • Covid is still very contagious, regardless of vaccination status, and some of our members are at high risk if they get it. None of us enjoy wearing a mask and studies on their effectiveness offer mixed conclusions. Regardless, if you would consider wearing a mask to make a high-risk brother feel safer, it would be appreciated.
• Afterglow is always a great time. So why don't you come and join us?

2. Carol's Korner

• Song List for our next Monday, June 20 to practice on your own at home. The site music library has all the scores and part-specific learning trax. The list of songs is what is expected to be covered at rehearsal. The order of the list has no significance to anything, so don’t try to read anything into it!
  • All I Want for Christmas is You
  • Jingle Bell Rock
  • Winter Wonderland
  • We Need A Little Christmas
  • Songs of Christmas
  • Almost Like Being in Love
  • Do You Hear the People Sing?
  • The Longest Time
  • Prayer of the Children (please be off the spots)
• As always: Keep working on creating legato lines by singing into and through the open vowels and making the end of each syllable the beginning of the next syllable. As you get used to this concept, it will make a HUGE difference!
• Along with this, you should develop your interpretational ability, which, for a chorus member, means using dynamic range to express the meanings of the phrases, and even to help delineate the phrases themselves. Longer duration notes, as defined in the context of the song, should have dynamic changes so as to convey the feeling of the phrase, plus maintain the forward direction of the phrasing, and not get mired in chord worship.

3. Future Notes

• Due to the construction that has begun at the front door at Searstone, parking at the front of the building isno longer be allowed. All must park at Lorraine Park area. 
• .We will not meet on Monday July 4.  It’s Internationals in Charlotte during the week of July 4.  Several members are going.  This is the closest International Convention we are likely to see in many years.  You should not miss this.  The convention still needs volunteer workers. The latest Carolina Crooner has a volunteer sign up link, https://www.barbershop.org/events/international-convention/volunteer-at-charlotte if you would like to help. Nic Cols is the volunteer chairman for RTP Chpater for this event, so you can contact me at ANY TIME!

4. Long Range

• July 25 at 7pm: Oak City Sound in concert at Searstone, Remember that Searstone provides our rehearsal space to us FOR FREE, in exchange for a concert here and there. Monday July 25 2022 at 7pm is one of those concert dates where we "earn our keep". It's an earlier than usual show-up time! There is a uniform requirement. See Events Page for details.
• September 10 is our first of 7 football concession sessions at Carter Finley stadium.  These are our most important fund raiser events of the year.  We need to provide 7 workers for each event.  A signup sheet will be available next week.  
• September 10 is also the district’s Lakeside Harmony Camp at the Durant Nature Preserve.  It is an all day fun event of education and singing.  The chapter obligation comes first, but after filling that you should attend this event if you can.
• October 14 and 15:: NSC District will hold this Fall's Convention at Asbury UMC Church at 6612 Creedmoor Rd, in Raleigh.
  • Volunteering: HCA/HOC Choruses in Durham are the hosting chapter. with Jason Kekas as the Convention Planner and Chairman.. Let Nic know if you are available to help as well. 
  • Particpating: We will compete at the Convention with The Bare Necessities and Over the Rainbow.. Look for future announcements about the qualifying process!
• Christmas Season:
  • Show:  On December 6, a Tuesday evening, we will put on a Christmas show at the Cary Arts Center theater.   We will need to sell tickets.  Start thinking NOW about who you might want to invite. 
  • Community Singouts: Please be on the lookout for possible other places to sing at Christmas time. If they can't come to us, we will come to them! Just to put some context about it: we had 14 singers at our singouts in North Hills Shopping Center, while at the same time we were having only 10 or 11 at practice sessions! Everyone likes singouts in the public setting. Note that we will make every effort possible to schedule these for Monday evenings. We know your time during the Holiday season is precious, so to ask for another night is difficult. We hope you can keep your Monday evenings reserved for Oak City Sound throughout that season.