1. High Notes

• Sept 9: This year's first NC State Home Football game, where we manned the Concession Stand with the Sweet Ads. Thank you to all who donated practically their whole Saturday to this fund-raising activity. 
• Sept 11: A fine weekly meeting and practice. 
  • It was great to see returning guest, from our Guest Night two weeks ago, Robert McSwain.
  • In addition, we had a brand new guest, Parker Klinck, who ended up being our sole tenor for the evening. and who sight-read all songs in tenor perfectly!
  • We held a fine Afterglow, attended by our usual Afterglow low-lifes, but also attended by both our guests. We ended up having a Tag-fest, led by Parker! Good times! 
• Sept 16 (Saturday): NC State Football Game concession. Call time is 11:30am, game time is 2:00pm. We have sufficient volunteers for this date.
• Sept 18 (Monday): Oak City Sound in Concert at Springmoor. 
  • Call time is 6:15pm in the Chapel.
  • Performance Set List:
    • Almost Like Being in Love
    • You've Got a Friend in Me
    • Desperado
    • The Longest Time
    • Quartet Slot 1: Another Dimension
    • Honesty
    • Ride the Chariot
    • Two Less Lonely People
    • Yesterday
    • Here Comes the Sun
    • Quartet Slot 2: Random draw quartet!
    • Over the Rainbow
    • Sweet Caroline
    • Bare Necessities
  • Uniform: New Maui Blue shirt, chorus blue jeans, brown belt, brown shoes.
  • We will have a short rehearsal on these songs after the Springmoor concert: 
    • Do You Hear What I Hear?
    • Mele Kalikimaka
    • Light the Legend
• Sept 25 (Monday): Regular meeting at our regular location (Searstone Retirement Community) at our regular time (7pm to 9:30pm). 
  • We will dig into Please Come Home for Christmas, so start preparing for that.
• Oak City Sound Holiday Chorus: Please start talking this up with your singing friends (men and women) who would like to join us, temporarily, without cost or obligation, in performing on any or all of our five Christmas season concerts. All we ask is that they attend four practices, starting October 16, from 7pm to 7:45pm, to learn the small subset of the music. Music memorization will not be required. 

2. Carol's Korner

• Honesty. 'nuff said.
• We always step up our game when we have guests. How about we sing that way all the time???
• Let's have fun entertaining our friends at Springmoor! It will be a lot easier to focus on the fun if you are completely confident about the notes and words, so take the time to make that your reality for Monday night.

3. Future Notes

• Sept 29 (Friday): NC State Football Game concession. Call time is 4:30pm, game time 7pm
• Oct 7 (Saturday): NC State Football Game concession. Call time is TBD
• Oct 14 (Saturday): 2pm Celebration of Life Service for Ken Bland to be held at Hillyer Memorial Christian Church; 718 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, NC 27603 
• Oct 16: First Monday of Oak City Sound Holiday Chorus season. 
• Oct 22 (Sunday afternoon) - Oak City Sound in concert at Preston Pointe in Morrisville. Call time is 2pm.
• Oct 28 (Saturday): NC State Football Game concession. Call time is TBD
• Nov 4 (Saturday): NC State Football Game concession. Call time is TBD
• Nov 25 (Saturday): NC State Football Game concession. Call time is TBD

Note that all Mondays in our Christmas season are fully booked, plus Tuesday Dec 5! Thanks to the team for making so many bookings, and to everyone for singing well enough that these places have invited us back.

• Nov 27 (Monday) - Concert at Templeton
• Dec 4 (Monday)- Concert at Springmoor
• Dec 5 (Tuesday) - Concert at Cary Arts Center
• Dec 11 (Monday) - Concert at Whispering Pines
• Dec 18 (Monday) - Concert at Searstone

• The graveside service for former member Dave Adams was held last Sunday afternoon, Sept 10, in Chapel Hill. About 80 people attended, including current OCS members Warren Fuson, Andy Fuson, Paul Martin, and Nic Cols, along with former members Izzy Keefer,  Chris Slacke, and Jim Tarantino, who also delivered part of the eulogy.
• Please keep Jim Murrell and his family in your prayers. His son is going through some very trying times dealing with severe medical issues.
• Please include one of our newer members, David Kraay, also in your prayers. DK has been in Florida for many weeks now, helping out his 97-YO father and related Hospice challenges.