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Supporting music education in our schools and the community
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We hope you enjoy this week's issue of the
Nashville Singers News
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Mission & Vision
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Organizational Mission
The mission of Nashville Singers is to entertain, educate, unite and uplift our audiences and members through music that is distinguished for its innovation, diversity and artistic excellence.
Philanthropic Mission The philanthropic mission of Nashville Singers is to provide resources and support for music education in our schools and the community.
Leadership MissionThe leadership mission of Nashville Singers is to seek, develop, use and enhance the skills and talents of each member to such an extent that progress seems limitless. Vision The vision of Nashville Singers is to be a dynamic choral leader, enriching lives through the performance of significant music; collaborating with highly engaged, skilled donors to make a substantial impact on music education in our schools and the community.
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Nashville Singers
In-Kind Sponsors
Ambassador Formalwear
1714 North Gallatin Road
Madison, TN 37115
(Rivergate)
615.865.4640 Carl Diebold
Sincera Media Solutions Dove Award-winning videographer
Suzi Moran
For more information about becoming an in-kind sponsor of Nashville Singers, please click HERE to review a list of our current needs.
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| About Us |
Nashville Singers, Inc. is a 501(C)3 non-profit corporation and performing arts organization founded in 2008.
The members reside in Brentwood, Hermitage, LaVergne, Lebanon, Nashville, and Smyrna.
The group meets at Whitworth Memorial Baptist Church the first three Thursday evenings of each month from 7-10pm. Membership in Nashville Singers is open to all men who demonstrate the ability, desire, and a commitment to excellence in vocal and choral performance.
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We Are Grateful for the Support from our Donors and Grant Funders
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Sustaining Donors
Bruce and Kellye Cokeroft
Bryan Patrick
Individual Donors
Nikki Baker
Sarah Beatty
Janet Koch Colonel Samuel Liburdi Ed and Tracey Luke Doug and Trish Morrison Tim and Amy Mullican Jonathan (Jay) Ress Lisa Black Schlossberg Brett and Brandrea Sweeney Gary Sinagra Dr. Jane Warren Darlene Williamson Harlan and Sandy Wilson Todd and Jennifer Wilson Sloan Yarborough Grant Funders  
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Todd Wilson
Executive Director
Ex Officio
Director of Music
Music Evaluation Committee
Webmaster
Newsletter Editor
 Doug Morrison
President/Board Chair  Lenny Farmer Vice-Chair
Board Secretary Celebration Coordinator
Tim Mullican Treasurer In-House Photographer Historian
Taylor Wilson Board Member At Large
Baritone Section Leader
Music Evaluation Committee
Visual Performance Coach
Mike Casper
Board Member At Large
Performance Scout
Venue Search Task Force 
Sloan Yarborough Associate Director Bass Section Leader
Music Evaluation Committee
Pitch Pipes
Annual Survey Administrator 
Bruce Cokeroft Membership Manager Manager of Auditions Tenor Section Leader Venue Search Task Force 
Bryan Patrick
Music Evaluation Committee Prime Minister of Fun & Mischief Interim Costume Manager 
Ric Domenico Music Evaluation Committee Learning Media Producer Lead Section Leader Music Engraver Music Librarian
 Harlan Wilson
Performance Coach
 Bob Allen
Venue Search Task Force  Michael Schwalbe
Venue Search Task Force 
Grace Thomson
Performance Coach Voice Teacher
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Advisory Board
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Nashville Singers is blessed to have some outstanding community, business, and association leaders serving as volunteers on our team
Sarah Beatty
Director of Events and Communications
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee
Dawn Davenport
Sports Anchor/Reporter
WKRN, News 2
Cheryl B. Davis
Director, Dickson and
Cheatham Divisions
Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity
Dr. Robert L. Elliott
Professor of Music and Department Head
Tennessee State University
Shane Fortner
Senior Sales Manager
Jason G. Franke
Assistant General Manager of Sales and Marketing
Nashville Sounds Baseball
Carrie Hobbs Guiden Executive Director
The Arc of Tennessee
Don Hart
Professional music arranger, composer, orchestrator
Laura Landress
Manager of Corporate Support
Nashville Public Radio
Emily Lansdell
Director of
Marketing & Admissions
Columbia Academy
Lynn D. McGill, CLU, ChFC
Financial Advisor
The McGill Financial Ensemble
Choir Director
Trinity United Methodist Church
Joann McIntire
Office Assistant IV
Neurology Department Vanderbilt University
Dr. Jeffrey T. Phillips
Director of Fine Arts
Hendersonville High School
President
Tennessee Music Education Association
Amanda Foster
VP of Development
Hendersonville Chamber of Commerce
Tom Ventress
President
Ventress Design Works
Jane Warren
Assoc. Professor of Music
Belmont University
Roger White
Trainer / Outside Sales
Dr. Gary Wilson
Director of Choral Activities
Ruth Woodall Associate Vice-President of Education and Workforce Development
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Current Repertoire |
REGULAR
Bad Day
Beyond the Sea
Blew by You
Bring Him Home
Danny Boy
Happy Together
How High the Moon
I Then Shall Live
My Lord and I
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
Over the Rainbow
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
The Lord's Prayer
Man in the Mirror
Star Spangled Banner
Tonight
When She Loved Me
HOLIDAY
Believe
Birthday of a King
It's the Most Wonderful
Time of the Year
Let It Snow
I Wonder What You're
Doing for Christmas Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
Silent Night The Secret of Christmas We Wish You a Merry Christmas
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Philanthropy
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Music Makes a Difference
Grants Awarded
2013
I.T. Creswell Arts
Magnet Middle School ($500) H.B. Williams
Elementary School
(Sound Effects) ($500) Ezell-Harding School
(Fine Arts Academy) ($500) 2012
Lakeview Design Center ($500) Oliver Middle School ($500) 2011
John Overton High School ($500) Educator of the Future
College Scholarships Awarded
2012
Michael Collins ($1000) McGavock High School |
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Music Makes a Difference Grant Winners Announced
 Nashville Singers believes in giving back to our community. To help support our philanthropic mission to enrich lives through the support of music education in our schools and the community, we created and began funding two programs: Music Makes a Difference Grant Program - providing a $500.00 music education grant to an area school music program or nonprofit organization focused on music education
Educator of the Future Scholarship Program - providing a $1,000.00 college scholarship to a graduating high school senior, or previous scholarship recipient pursuing a music education degree
2013 Funding Recipients- I.T. Creswell Arts Magnet Middle School ($500.00)
- H.B. Williams Elementary School (Sound Effects) ($500.00)
- Ezell-Harding School (Fine Arts Academy) ($500.00)
Previous Funding Recipients - Lakeview Design Center (2012 grant) ($500.00)
- W.H. Oliver Middle School (2012 grant) ($500.00)
- John Overton High School (2011 grant) ($500.00)
- Michael Collins (2012 scholarship) ($1,000.00)
The 2013 scholarship recipient will be announced in the next few weeks. If you would like to assist Nashville Singers in expanding the reach of this grant or scholarship funding, please contact Executive Director Todd Wilson by calling 615-852-SING (7464) or send an email to todd@nashvillesingers.org.
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Nashville Singers to Perform the Star Spangled Banner
The Nashville Singers will be at Greer Stadium on Friday evening, April 26 to perform the Star Spangled Banner at the home game versus Memphis. For ticket information, click on the graphic shown above. The game starts at 7:05pm. Kudos to advisory board member Jason Franke, Nashville Sounds Baseball Assistant General Manager of Sales and Marketing for making this happen.
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Meet One of the Newest Members of our Team
 Alix Brody-Waite is a Special Projects Coordinator for Hands On Nashville. Nashville Singers has engaged Alix and Hands on Nashville to assist us with the planning and execution of our 2013 Season of Harmony Concerts.
Alix brings an extensive and diverse background in event production, grassroots outreach/marketing, strategic planning and fundraising. In 2005 she began her career working as a regional fundraiser and event planner for Governor Bredesen's successful 2006 reelection campaign. Upon completion of the campaign she served as an event coordinator for his Inaugural Ceremony and Finance Reception. In 2008 she was hired as a Senior Associate at April Orange & Associates, a full scale fundraising and event planning firm based in Nashville. During her time there she coordinated numerous conferences, fundraisers, and policy events for political candidates and national organizations. Deciding it was time for the next step in her career she became Project Manager for Mayor Karl Dean's inaugural 'Mayor's Walk 100 Miles Program' as featured in the HBO documentary Weight of the Nation. As part of the four month healthy living initiative she and her partner, Tara Tenorio, coordinated 29 individual walking events and engaged over 4000 participants over the course of the project. The program culm  inated in a finale celebration and concert for over 2000 people, which featured recording artists Jo Dee Messina and Melinda Doolittle. As a follow up to the "Walk 100 Miles" initiative she coordinated the inaugural "Mayor's Couch to 5K" program, which involved planning 250 individual training sessions at 22 sites throughout Nashville over a 3 time period. The successful project concluded with a 5K downtown with over 6000 people in attendance. Alix currently works as Special Projects Coordinator at Hands On Nashville, managing a variety of special events including, Hands On Nashville Day month and the Strobel Awards.
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Inside Acappella - Episode 6
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Quote of the Week 
"Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and , least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we need for leaders are men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away." - Admiral James B. Stockdale
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This Day in Music
April 22, 1968 - Herb Alpert debuted "This Guy's in Love With You" on his CBS-TV special. |
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Video of the Week
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SAVE THE DATES for two Season of Harmony Concerts
 Saturday - November 23, 2013 First Baptist Church Donelson, TN Silent Auction begins at 6:00pm Concert begins at 7:00pm
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Sunday - November 24, 2013
Lifepoint Church
Smyrna, TN
Concert begins at 2:30pm
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Stay tuned for more details as they become available.
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Upcoming Schedule
SPRING
April 26 - (Fri) National Anthem performance for the Nashville Sounds Baseball team
May 2 - (Thu) Next rehearsal
May 6 - (Mon) Monthly board meeting at 7:00pm (Todd's place)
SUMMER
June 22 - (CHANGE) (Sat) All-Day Board Retreat (Lifepoint Church in Smyrna)
July 2 - (Tue) Rehearsal on a different night to avoid conflict with Independence Day holiday.
July 15 - Advisory Board Teleconference (7:00pm to 8:30pm)
July 27 - (NEW) (Sat) Recording session for new Christmas CD
August 16 - Performance at Woodmont Baptist Church. Chorus call 6:00pm; 45-minute performance begins sometime between 6:45pm and 7:00pm;
August 17 - (Sat) Photo session for new Christmas CD
FALL
September 7 - (Sat) Recording session for new Christmas CD
September 21 - (NEW) Performance at Annual Paper Sale Auction presented by the AL Menah Shrine Clowns benefiting the Shrine Hospital for Children
September 26 - (Thu) Advisory Board Dinner (6:30pm to 9:00pm)(Location TBD)
November 13 - Nashville Singers 5th Anniversary
November 16 - (Sat) 35-minute concert set in Oak Ridge, TN (T)
November 23 - (Sat) Season of Harmony Concert in Nashville - Silent Auction starts at 6:00pm, concert starts at 7:00pm (First Baptist Church in Donelson)
November 24 - (Sun) Season of Harmony Concert in Smyrna at 2:30pm (Lifepoint Church)
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Please Support
Nashville Singers
Music Education Programs (PSA)
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Download our Programs Brochure
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Todd Wilson
Executive Director
The Nashville Singers, Inc.
615-852-SING (7464) office
615-669-TODD (8633) cell
615-523-TODD (8633) fax
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The Nashville Singers, Inc. is a Tennessee chartered corporation and recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Donations are tax -deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. For more information, visit our website or contact Executive Director, Todd Wilson by phone at 615-852-SING (7464) or via email at todd@nashvillesingers.org
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