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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
You are subscribed to the official weekly publication of Nashville Singers, Inc., a Tennessee 501(c)3 non-profit, performing arts organization. We celebrate the power of the human voice to entertain, educate, unite, uplift, enrich, and inspire, by performing an ever-widening repertoire of choral music at the highest artistic level for a broad community of audiences.
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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
Away in a Manger
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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Rainy Weather Didn't Dampen Our Patriotic Spirit
 | The Nashville Singers with Nashville Sounds mascot Ozzie
(photo by Grace Thomson)
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Just over a baker's dozen members of the Nashville Singers made their way through rush hour traffic on Friday night to Greer Stadium to perform the Star Spangled Banner for a home game of the Nashville Sounds baseball team versus the Memphis Redbirds.
The evening was special for a number of reasons:
1) Everyone in attendance honored the passing of country music icon George Jones with a moment of silence
2) We got a photo with Nashville Sounds mascot "Ozzie."
3) Brand new member Clay Bailey (5th from the right) made his performance debut with the chorus.
4) We rolled out a brand new tag for the anthem arranged by our own Ric Domenico. Thank you Ric for taking the initiative and producing learning media for the chorus on short notice.
5) The performance went off without a hitch. In fact, one of the team's managers in the dugout made a point to shake the hand of the each of the singers and remarked, "That's the best performance yet!"
6) We had Nashville Singers artistic staff member Grace Thomson with us to capture some photos of the event. 7) The Sounds won the game. Tied 1-1 with two outs in the ninth inning, the Nashville Sounds benefited from a balk charged to Memphis reliever Jorge Rondon to score outfielder Sean Halton from third for the 2-1 win over the visiting Redbirds.  If you haven't attended a Nashville Sounds game, YOU SHOULD! Click here to check out the 2013 schedule.
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Kind Words From One of Our Grant Winners!
Dear Mr. Wilson: 
On behalf of the choral department at I.T. Creswell Arts Magnet, I want to extend my sincere thanks to you and your committee for choosing I. T. Creswell as a recipient for the 2013-2014 Music Makes a Difference Grant Award.
We are completing a wonderful year of music making at I. T. Creswell Arts Magnet. At our school we think music is basic to life. It is an artistic language that helps the human connect imagination to expression; it cultivates the whole child.
We look forward to working with your organization and establishing a professional mentoring relationship with our young singers. Your dedication in supporting music education is evident and has laid a cornerstone in the foundation of arts development at many local schools in the greater Nashville community.
Thank you again for being a strong advocate of music in our schools, your patronage to the arts, and to our music program. Your support will truly benefit our students in many ways. You help us make a positive difference.
With appreciation,
Nita L. Smith, Music Specialist
Choral, Piano, & General Music
I.T. Creswell Arts Magnet Middle
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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Todd Wilson Joins the Staff of Big Brothers Big Sisters
 Nashville Singers has been blessed to have Sarah Beatty from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee serving on our advisory board since January of 2012. As an advisory board member, she has helped our organization as a donor, through two invitations to perform at the Franklin Wine Festival, with public relations assistance, and as the chair of our 2012 silent auction. We are very grateful for her contributions.
Some of you may not know that full-time employment has eluded your editor since the downturn in the economy led to the elimination of my department (and others) at the Barbershop Harmony Society in June of 2009. I've been limited to a handful for short-term, part-time consulting contracts. However, I am pleased to report that this Wednesday, I will be joining the staff of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee as a Development and Events Specialist, and will be reporting to, you guessed it, Sarah Beatty.  For years, my personal mission has been to unleash the potential of the people and organizations around me. The Big Brothers Big Sisters mission is providing children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported, one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. I have admired their important work for years and am extremely grateful for the opportunity to help fulfill this noble mission. If you want to make me even happier, please take a moment to "LIKE" the BBBS Facebook page by clicking on the the logo shown below: 
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We're Taking Our Show on the Road!
On the evening of November 16, 2013, the Sound Company, Oak Ridge's Children's Performing Choir will present a special concert featuring the Nashville Singers. The concert will be held at the historic Grove Theater.
The two choirs will each perform sets on their own, but will also combine to sing a few songs, including "You Are the New Day," as performed by the King's Singers.
These two choirs last shared the stage in April of 2012 before an audience of 4,000 at the Titanic Museum and Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Descendants of the passengers and crew were on hand to commemorate the event.
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Sound Company Children's Choir is a multi-age performing choir based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee directed by Katy Wolfe-Zahn, Terry Silver-Alford, Mariana Garciagodoy, and Kathy Gillenwaters. The company is comprised of over 100 children ranging from first through twelfth grades, from schools and communities in East Tennessee. Sound Company strives to encourage the pursuit of excellence and foster joy in music for performers and the community. Through a variety of musical genres, the directors educate children with choral singing skills, strong vocal technique, challenging choreography, stage experience, and ensemble performance proficiency. Sound Company was founded in 2003 as a non-profit performing arts ensemble.
The Historic Grove Theater was built by the federal government in 1942, during the Manhattan Project. It was recently restored by its current owners, High Places Community Church, who make the theater available to the community. The Grove Theater is located at 123 Randolph Road in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37830. There is a banner on the front of the theater that says, "High Places at the Grove." The exact start time of this event has not been finalized.
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Melody Myers Backs Sara Brightman On Latest CD
 Sarah Brightman's new CD Dreamchaser was released on April 16. Brightman has received over 180 Gold and Platinum sales awards in over 40 different countries around the world including United States, Australia, Japan, UK, China, Mexico, Canada and Germany. What's really cool is that she asked Middle Tennessee's Melody Myers to sing the background vocals on this project. If you're a regular reader of the Nashville Singers News, you know that Melody Myers will be performing on our November 23rd Season of Harmony concert. However, in this case, Melody will be singing the solo and the Nashville Singers will be doing background vocals. Way to go Melody! You can visit Melody's Facebook page by clicking HERE. |
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Video of the Week
 | DANCE WITH MY MOTHER AGAIN
Aldrich Lloyd Talonding - singer
James Walter Bucong - guitarist
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This Day in Music
April 29, 1973 - John Denver began a weekly live UK BBC 2 TV special, "The John Denver Show."
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Agenda for This Week's Rehearsal
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Inside Acappella - Episode 7
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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
May 2 - (Thu) Next rehearsal
May 6 - (Mon) Monthly board meeting at 7:00pm (Todd & Taylor'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
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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Nashville Singers
Music Education Programs (PSA)
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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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