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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-Elect
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
2013
Kasey Hammond Hendersonville High School 2012
Michael Collins ($1000) McGavock High School |
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Where Are We Going As An Organization? 
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 substantive impact on music education in our schools and the community. 2009-2020 Strategic Vision - six cornerstone elements - Nashville Singers is recognized as one of the premier choral organizations in North America, and serves as an artistic incubator.
- Nashville Singers will continue to produce choral performances that exemplify the highest standards of musicianship, artistry and entertainment.
- Nashville Singers will strengthen organizational sustainability by building audiences and achieving long-term sustainable funding, with corporate sponsors, major individual donors, a planned giving program, and a financial reserve.
- Nashville Singers will increase local and national awareness of the Nashville Singers brand through public and television performances, webcasts, and by nurturing relationships with churches, schools, and other arts organizations.
- Nashville Singers will support and enrich our members, leadership, volunteers, and designated charitable organizations.
- Nashville Singers has artists who want to appear as guest performers with the chorus.
A strategic plan covering the years 2009 to 2020 was created by our Executive Director and approved by our board of directors. This planning process involved envisioning the future of our organization and translating that vision into defined goals, objectives, and steps to achieve them.
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A Few Words From One of Our 2013 Grant Recipients
Dear Mr. Wilson, We are most excited to learn that our Fine Arts Academy has been selected as one of your organizations recipients of the Music Makes a Difference Grant. Your organization's generous support will allow us to purchase much needed practice choral risers. These risers will be located in our main choral teaching room on the Ezell-Harding campus and will be a great help to many students and choral groups across our campus. Thank you for your contributions to the Nashville community through schools and music organizations both through the grant program as well as your many other outreach efforts. Together we are and will continue to make a difference in the lives of our students through music. Sincerely, Laura Ice Ezell-Harding Christian School Fine Arts Academy Director  Mrs. Ice graduated from Lipscomb University in 1997 with a B.S. in Elementary Education. This is her 7th year at Ezell-Harding. During her time at EHCS, Mrs. Ice has taught in the classroom as well as direct chorus for all ages, taught drama in the summer camp program, and directed or played accompaniment in the Elementary and Middle School plays and programs.
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Meet One of Our Recent Guests - Michael Thornton
 The Nashville Singers were pleased to welcome Michael Thornton at our last rehearsal. He heard about the us from Dr. Gary Wilson, the Director of Choral Activities at Lipscomb University. Gary also serves on the Nashville Singers Advisory Board. Michael and Gary have known each other for many years and have sung together on several occasions.
Michael has been I have involved with singing groups for all of his adult life including the A Cappella Chorus at Lipscomb, The Lipscomb University Community Chorus and others. He has recorded several CD's with Faith, Family, and Friends and also performed with The Thoroughbreds Barbershop Chorus out of Louisville, KY.
When asked for feedback about his first night, Michael remarked, "Thanks for the great time at rehearsal last night. What a wonderful group of singers! I was especially impressed with the welcoming spirit that everyone showed me. I also enjoyed the professionalism of the group while still having a playful attitude."
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Member Profile - Harlan Wilson
 Harlan is an entertainer, ensemble singer, soloist, choral director and vocal coach. He has vast experience in producing and directing live concert performances, as well as performing over two thousand a cappella singing concerts with The Suntones, the Barbershop Harmony Society's 1961 International Quartet Champion. Harlan served for many years as a faculty member of various Harmony Education Programs all over North America, as well as seven yeas on the faculty at Harmony College. His choral directing resume includes 20 years as Musical Director of the Coastmen Chorus, based in Palm Beach County, Florida. Under his leadership, the group won the Florida State Championships six times. They also competed 10 times at the International level, earning Bronze Medal Award. Harlan is the member of a select group of men who have earned International Medals as a quartet singer and as a Chorus Director. He served as Director of Music for the Royal Palm Show Chorus, also of South Florida. This group also competed at the International level. Harlan founded and directed The Vocal Gentry Ensemble Singers in South Florida and was associated with the Music Men of Greater Asheville, North Carolina. He and his wife, Sandy relocated to Nashville in April of 2008. Harlan and his son, Todd, were the first father/son International Quartet Champions in the history of the Barbershop Harmony Society. In 1986, Harlan was inducted into the Sunshine District Hall Fame. In 2005, the Suntones were inducted into the Barbershop Harmony Society's Hall of Fame. Harlan was one of the four founding members of the chorus. He received the Executive Director Award from Nashville Singers in 2011 for his three years of service to the board of directors. |
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Inside Acappella - Episode 10
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This Day in Music
May 20, 1995 - Don Henley from The Eagles married model Sharon Summerall. Guests included Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, David Crosby, Randy Newman, Jimmy Buffett, Jackson Browne, Billy Joel, Sting and Sheryl Crow. |
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Video of the Week
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Back To Black - Acapella Cover - Dana Rose - HD
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Agenda for May 23rd Rehearsal
SECTION I (7:00pm)
Tag time (Todd)
Warmup (Sloan)
SECTION II (7:20pm)
Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming (Sloan)
Secret of Christmas (Todd)
Blew By You (Todd)
Tonight (Todd)
I Then Shall Live (Sloan)
SECTION III (8:20pm)
Break
Business
SECTION IV (8:45pm)
Happy Together (Todd)
Seventy-Six Trombones (Sloan)
Sleigh Ride (Todd)
When She Loved Me (Sloan)
Let It Snow (Todd)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Todd)
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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 23 - (Thu) Next rehearsal
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 - (Sat) 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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Please Support
Nashville Singers
Music Education Programs (PSA)
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Download our Programs Brochure
Nashville Singers is recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt 501(c)3 non-profit organization registered in the state of Tennessee. Donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. All solicitations are intended for Tennessee residents and help us impact the lives of other by perpetuating mission-critical outreach and music education programs. If you reside outside of Tennessee, please contact us BEFORE making a donation.
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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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