Monday Night, April 6, Practice

I think practice went well last night, with nine members attending. We started sharing a few of the rehearsal tasks. I led the physical warm up (stretching), Paul led the vocal warm up, and then Mark H. took over for direction of song practice. I think Mark P. did something, but other than waving his hands a bit, I can't remember what it was.


Ed Weisenberger (the gent on the left in the photo) was able to join us along with his wife. Ed is a BHS member, but has a very full work schedule. We were glad to have Ed and his wife join us for the evening.

We warmed up with some Pole Cat songs, then we practiced the songs we'll need for Mother's Day and, hopefully, for a performance at a Paint's game. MOTHER (A Word that Means the World to Me),Take Me Out to The Ball Game and The Star Spangled Banner (Val Hicks' arrangement). We also practiced Shenandoah. I think we just need a bit more work on the key change and we'll have it. We did a little quarteting and sang the new Tags Mark H. gave us last week. (If Happy Little Bluebirds Fly, Hello, and Angel Devine, Mother of Mine). We finished with Keep the Whole World Singing, as usual. The die-hards then sang more Tags for a bit. Then Mark and Paul tried to out do each other using their falsetto's. It was a screaming match. We had to fight off the stray cats at the windows. All in all, a great time!