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The mission of the Nashville Singers is to enrich lives
through singing and the support of music education.
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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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Mission
The mission of Nashville Singers is to enrich lives through singing and the support of music education.
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 Music Evaluation Committee Tenor Section Leader Venue Search Task Force 
Bryan Patrick
Prime Minister of Fun & Mischief 
Ric Domenico Music Evaluation Committee Learning Media Producer Lead Section Leader Music Engraver Music Librarian
 Harlan Wilson
Performance Coach
 Bob Allen
Costume Manager 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
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
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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Enjoy The Best of Barbershop This Week From the Comfort of Your Home or Office!  Close to 6,000 lovers of four-part harmony will travel from around the world to Toronto this week for the 75th Anniversary of the Barbershop Harmony Society. If you're not attending in person, the next best thing is to enjoy the top groups on the planet compete for the quartet and chorus championships from your TV or computer screen. Click on the logo to register.
Webcast Events Schedule
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2013
All times listed are in EDT. Please adjust the times listed to your time zone.
- Newfoundland Daylight Savings Time is 1½ hours later. i.e. 11 AM EDT = 12:30 PM NDT
- Atlantic Daylight Savings Time is 1 hours later. i.e. 11 AM EDT = 12:00 PM ADT
- Central Daylight Savings Time is 1 hours earlier. i.e. 11 AM EDT = 10:00 AM CDT
- Mountain Daylight Savings Time is 2 hours earlier. i.e. 11 AM EDT = 9:00 AM MDT
- Pacific Daylight Savings Time is 3 hour ealier. i.e. 11 AM EDT = 8:00 AM PDT
Tuesday, July 2nd- The "Harmony Foundation International" Collegiate Contest, 5-9:30pm
Wednesday, July 3rd
- Quartet Quarter Finals Session #1, 10am-2:30pm
- Quartet Quarter Finals Session #2, 4:30-9:30pm
Thursday, July 4th
- Quartet Semi-Finals, 11am-3:00pm
- Association of International Champions (AIC) Show, beginning at 7:30pm
Friday, July 5th
- Chorus Contest Sessoin #1, 10am-2:30pm
- Chorus Contest Session #2, 4-8:30pm
Saturday, July 6th
- Quartet Finals (Pre Show) , 5:45-7pm
- Quartet Finals 7-9:30pm
DELAYED VIEWING
The delayed viewing archives will be available approximately Wed. July 10 through Wed. July 17, 2013. Content will be available for 7 days.
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Member Profile - Ric Domenico
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Ric Domenico is a composer, arranger, orchestrator, music copyist, transcriber, studio singer, and producer here in Nashville. He is published as an orchestrator with WORD Music, LifeWay Worship Music Group, and G3 music publishers. He has a Bachelor's degree in Music Education/Voice from Ithaca College, and a Masters degree in Studio Writing & Production from the University of Miami. He works mainly in the area of Christian Music. He is very active in the music ministry at Brentwood Baptist Church, and plays valve trombone in the orchestra, trumpet/flugelhorn in the praise band & big band, and sings in the choir. Originally from Rochester, NY, Ric is married and has a ten year old son (Joey). He has been singing in men's groups since high school. He serves the chorus as lead section leader, music librarian, music engraver, and learning media producer. Ric received the Director of Music Award for 2011 for his assistance with music engraving and learning media production.
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King's Singers - I'm Yours (Complete)
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Agency Profile  (from the MNAC website)
The Nashville Metro Arts Commission was founded to provide leadership around arts & culture in Nashville. This is a broad mission with many interpretations. In 2010, Metro Arts adopted a way to articulate and measure success through a Theory of Change. Simply, Metro Arts believes that every citizen should have the ability to experience and participate in a creative life. If we achieve this, then we fulfill our mission. To get there, we have adopted key outcomes we believe will change the creative vibrancy of our city: Improving the Creative Workforce, Increasing Participation in Creative Activities and Enhancing Creative Innovation. We are measuring change in these areas through grants, public art, gallery participation and every other project or program we undertake. Our dream is pretty simple-- that a senior citizen in Bordeaux or Antioch can take a dance class, see a play or shop in neighborhood gallery close to their home. Or maybe a glass artist, or a dancer, or a film-maker has access to professional development, start-up capital and opportunities to launch a gallery or small business in their neighborhood. Or maybe, just maybe, that every five year old in our city and every teacher who teaches them has access to art and teaching artists in the classroom. We believe if we can fundamentally change these core conditions over time that everyone will embrace creative practice in this city that we all love. Imagine the possibilities.
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Inside Acappella - Episode 16
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Quote of the Week 
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill
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Agenda for July 2nd TUESDAY Rehearsal
SECTION I (7:00pm)
Tag time
Warmup
SECTION II (7:20pm)  Coventry Carol
Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming
Do You Hear What I Hear
Silent Night
Birthday of a King
Let It Snow
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
SECTION III (8:30pm)
Break
Business
SECTION IV (8:55pm)
Away in a Manger
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Sleigh Ride
Christmastime Is Here
Seventy-Six Trombones
I Then Shall Live
Believe
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This Day in Music 
July 01, 1967 - The Beatles started a 15 week run at No.1 on the US album chart with "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", the group's 10th US No.1 album. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning in December 1966, the album widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, includes songs such as "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life."
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Nashville Singers is pleased to offer hands-on internships in the performing arts to students throughout the year. These are part-time internships of 10-15 hours/week.
Current Openings
Fall (August 24-December 6) - Marketing Intern
- Communications Intern
- Financial Development/Fundraising Intern
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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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2014 Calendar of Events Announced!
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Upcoming Schedule
SPRING
July 2 - (Tue) Next rehearsal
SUMMER
July 15 - Advisory Board Teleconference (7:00pm to 8:30pm)
July 27 - (Sat) Recording session for new Christmas CD
August 16 - (Fri) 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) 2014January 30 - (Thu) Annual Awards and Recognition Dinner (Location TBA) February 27 - (Thu) Advisory Board Dinner (Location TBA)
March 4 (Tue) (NEW) Choral Blast - a community concert at the historic Ryman Auditorium, hosed by Nashville in Harmony
March 15 - (Sat) Acappella Academy - Whitworth Memorial Baptist Church
April 26 - (Sat) Spring Fundraiser Event June 21 - (Sat) Board of Directors Annual Planning Retreat (Location TBA) July 14 - (Mon) Advisory Board/Governing Board Teleconference September 25 - (Thu) Advisory Board/Governing Board Dinner (Location TBA) November 22 and 23rd (Saturday and Sunday) Season of Harmony Concerts (Locations TBA)
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Please Support
Nashville Singers
Music Education Programs (PSA)
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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
Nashville Singers and Nashvillesingers.org are registered and protected service marks (SM) of Nashville Singers, Inc.
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