Practice Night Changed

Due to some scheduling conflicts, we moved our pratice night to Thursday. This will be effective with the next practice, scheduled for Thursday, May 28th. Time will remain the same, 7:30 to 9:30, with Tag singing to follow.

Monday Night, May 18, Practice

We had 7 guys at practice last night and I think we sounded pretty good. We spent some time on business and the rest preparing for upcoming performances. We're going to perform on Friday, May 22, around 2:30 to 3:30 at the Feast of the Flowering Moon, in Chillicothe.

We've managed to form a quartet (as yet un-named) from the chorus members. (Maybe that should be our name...."Un-Named"). Members are, from left to right, Dan Lusher (Tenor), Paul Hixon (Lead), Bob (just can't sing without the music) Cook (Bass), and Gene Hoyet (Baritone). The quartet plans to sing Shenandoah and Kentucky Babe at the Feast. It will be our first public performance as a quartet.

Happy Mother's Day

First I want to say Happy Mother's Day to all of the many women who have given themselves in so many ways to raise little ones to be who they are today.

At the same time I want to extend my sincerest apologies to our community for not being able to successfully prepare our chorus for the Mother's Day outing that we had planned on making to provide personalized Mother's Day songs and messages. If you anticipated ordering one of those, we hope that you will keep us in mind for next year.

I especially want to thank Lloyd's Sweet Shoppe for standing ready to assist us as they did for Valentine's Day. Please stop in and get some candy from Lloyd's for Mother's Day. They are on Water Street in Chillicothe and would appreciate your business.

To the guys in the chorus who worked hard to get their music learned, let me say that your work is not in vain, since what we have learned from this experience will benefit us in the future. We need more time to prepare, more efficient work on our music and more people involved in putting together such a large work.

For now, I hope the community will accept our greeting of, "Happy Mother's Day" even though it is not in song. I hope you will all visit Lloyd's Sweet Shoppe to get some chocolate for mom on Mother's Day and that all of our guys are ready to get back to work on Monday night.

We will begin work on the Star Spangled Banner and Take Me Out to the Ballgame extensively until we know both of those charts well. This will help us to be ready for other engagements. We need to look at our upcoming events and make sure that we have the personel and proper planning in place to meet those obligations.

Sounds of Aloha Show, May 2, 2009, Hawaii Theater

What a great show put on by the Sounds of Aloha Chorus. It began with John McCreary playing the theater organ. That's the organ in the center bottom of the picture. Quite a sound!

Next came the Sounds of Aloha Barbershop Chorus singing various Brodway Tunes.

Intermission was followed by Shari Lynn singing some more Broadway tunes. Next came the Honolulu Boy Choir. They were followed by The Perfect Gentlemen Quartet. The Perfect Gentlemen are an a-cappella group that sings a little barbershop, but a much wider repertoire of music. And they are very funny! Finally, the show was closed by the Sounds of Aloha Chorus singing The Impossible Dream from the "Man of LaMancha."