The Acorn - Oak City Sound's Weekly News - Oct 12, 2023 - Holiday Singers, Oak City Sound

Type of post: Chorus news item
Sub-type: The Acorn
Posted By: Nic Cols
Status: Current
Date Posted: Thu, Oct 12 2023

1. High Notes

  • Oct 7: NC State Football Game concession. Thanks to all who gave up their Saturday to this important fundraiser.
  • Oct 9: Good chorus meeting and rehearsal. We had a quorum, and therefore were able to vote in our next year's Board of Directors. Gary Thorn will schedule the November and December BoD meetings to be joint 2023/2024 Boards.
  • 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 (Monday): Special meeting format, at our regular location (Searstone Retirement Community) at our regular time (7pm to 9:30pm). 
    • Oak City Sound Holiday Chorus: Starts tonight! We have about 15 persons expressing interest in joining us in this venture. Please continue to invite your singing friends to try us out.
    • Mike Muha has created a great on-line brochure and it is our web site's home page https://www/OakCitySound.org. Please use this in talking it up with your singing friends (men and women).
    • Rehearsal list for 2nd hour:
      • Start all songs in song set for Preston Pointe. Same show order as Springmoor from September..; PLUS
      • Songs of Christmas
      • A Christmas Carol
      • Please Come Home for Christmas
  • Oct 22 (Sunday afternoon) - Oak City Sound in concert at Preston Pointe in Morrisville. Call time is 2:15pm.

2. Carol's Korner

  • Keep working on memorization for holiday shows. Put the learning tracks on a constant loop!

3. Future Notes

  • 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
  • Nov 27 (Monday) - Concert at The Templeton

4. Long Range

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.

  • 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

5. Champagne Room

  • Please keep Jim Murrell and his family in your prayers. His son is going through some very trying times dealing with severe medical issues.