July and August schedule

All practices are held on Tuesdays, 7-8:30 at Friends School of Charlotte, 7001 Wallace Road, Charlotte, 28212

July 20th - no practice

July 27th - regular practice

Monday, August 2nd, performance for Adventures in Learning at Christ Episcopal Church, 1412 Providence Road, 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m, meet at 9:45.

August 3rd - sing at Golden Living Center

10th and 17th , no practice

New Songs

84 - For the Beauty of the Earth

85 - Circle Round For Freedom

86 - Wimoweh

87 - For the Earth Forever Turning   listen

May and June Schedule

May 18th - 7-9 - Hospice Training - Bring your application and a copy of your driver's license.

May 25th - 7-8:30 - regular practice

June 2nd - meet at 6:15 - sing 6:30-7:15 - Stewart Health Care Center at The Cypress followed by dinner

June 5th - 11:00am - Sing for Catawba Lands Conservancy Annual Meeting at Redlair Farm and Forest, 144 Redlair Lane, Gastonia -  Carpool plans to come

June 8th - regular practice

June 15th - 5:00 until ?   - "Barbeque Pot Luck" gathering at Susan and Steve's

June 22nd - regular practice (location to be determined)

June 29th - no practice

concert continued

Here is the rest of our April 17th concert.  The program has many of the song lyrics.
Part 3
Turn the World Around by Harry Belefonte and Robert Freedman
Let Me Call You Sweetheart - words by Beth Slater Whitson, music by Leo Friedman
Alleluia from Exultate by W.A. Mozart
What a Wonderful World - by George Weiss and Bob Thiele

Part 4
For the Future - words by Wendell Berry, music by Malcolm Dalglish
De Colores - traditional Latin American
Song of Peace - words by Lloyd Stone, music by Jean Sibelius
Peace Be Unto You - by Alice Olsen
Peace Will Come - by Tom Paxton

Part 5
Auld Lang Syne - traditional Scottish
Aya Ngena - South African freedon song
Love is the Seventh Wave - by Sting
Dreams of Harmony -by Joanne Hammil

concert youtube

Here are YouTube links to part 1 and 2 of our April 17th concert.   It takes a lot of time (hours and hours) to upload only 8-10 minutes of the concert.  I will add parts 3-5 of the concert in the near future as I get them uploaded to YouTube.

Part 1
Music of the Unverse by Pat Raedy
Carolina in the Morning by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson
How Fair a Rose and All We the Music Makers by Jay Althouse
Down by the Riverside - traditional

Part 2
Vem Kan Segla - traditional Swedish
I Love the Flowers
Coffee/Latte
Harmonia Mundi - 16th Century German Chorale, arranged by Sean Deibler

De Colores

Here are recordings of De Colores for any who may want a refresher on the words and/or your part.  Also, here is a corrected version of the sheet music.  I realized that I had rests in some strange places and also some misspelled words.  See you Saturday.
Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Bass

concert flier

Here is the concert flier for our April 17th concert.  Invite your family and friends.  Hope to see you all at practice tonight.

concert flier