1. High Notes

• July 17:  Great meeting and practice! We had 22 singers present -- a new post-pandemic high!
  • Two visitors, John Brandli and Jack Lewis, were with us.
  • Good Afterglow at Abbey Road, where we had another outstanding social time. 
• July 19: Concession stand in Chapel Hill was pulled off successfully. Thanks to Tim Kinsey and all those who participated!
• Have you checked our memorization schedule at  https://www.oakcitysound.org/db_uploads/RehearsalSchedule2023.pdf  ? Let's get on board with this!
• July 24 (Monday): Regular meeting at our regular time at our regular location: Searstone Retirement Community at 7pm. We will rehearse the following:
  • Light the Legend
  • Two Less Lonely People (off spots!)
  • Desperado
  • Honesty
  • Please Come Home for Christmas
  • It Came Upon the Midnight Clear/Silent Night
  • Christmas Through Your Eyes

2. Carol's Korner

• Christmas is coming, the music folder is getting fat! We have a lot of work left to prepare for Cary Lazy Daze, but remember to start cracking on the new and resurrected Christmas music.
• We will keep adding that to our rehearsal schedule in the coming weeks as we are finishing up preparations for our new songs that will be sung for our August 26 performance.
• Keep working on flow, connection, lift, approaching each pitch from the top, and all of the other things I nag you about! It's paying off!!

3. Future Notes

• John Zweighaft invites everyone to attend his church's sight-singing lab this summer. It runs on Tuesday evenings at 7pm, starting Tuesday July 11, for several weeks. Greg Santa Croce, who is the choir director at St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Apex, will lead. It’s free. It will include some basics of reading music to train singing music intervals.  It is recommended for both new and experienced singers. Contact John Zweighaft for more information.
• Aug 26, 11:00-11:30AM:  Cary Lazy Daze Town Festival. Oak City Sound will be performing on the main stage, as we've done for a few years running. Proposed song list:
  • Desperado
  • Two Less Lonely People in the World
  • Honesty
  • You've Got a Friend in Me
  • Here Comes the Sun
  • Yesterday
  • Over the Rainbow
  • The Bare Necessities
  • Almost Like Being in Love
  • Sweet Caroline
  • Maybe 1 quartet song, TBA
• Aug 28 - Next Oak City Sound guest night, at our regular Monday evening rehearsal time and place.

4. Long Range

• Sept 18 - Concert at Springmoor
• Oct 22, a Sunday afternoon. Oak City Sound in concert at Preston Pointe in Morrisville.
• Nov 27 - Concert at Templ;eton
• Dec 4: Concert at Springmoor
• Dec 5 - Concert at Cary Arts Center
• Dec 18 - Concert at Searstone

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