The Choo Choo Chorus Newsletter for July 6

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July 6, 2023

John Moselage

In This E-mail

Script For Thursday's Meeting
From The Prez
From The Program VP
Marketing and Publicity
John Moselage Profile
For the Good of the Chapter

Special Chapter Meeting, Thursday, July 6, With several members going to International, our Program VP has a meeting plan. See his note below.

Lookouts Game, Friday, July 14, arrive at 6:15 to sing at 7 PM, Uniform: Class B, short sleeve blue shirt, khaki pants, black belt, socks and shoes, AT&T Field. Details

Hamilton Place Mall, Saturday, July 22, 2 PM. Details

Lakeside Harmony Weekend, August 4-6. Details

Annual Show, Saturday, August 12, 4 PM, Colonnade. Details

Fall Dixie 75th Anniversary Convention, Friday - Sunday, September, 22-24, Oxford, AL. Details

Dixie District 75th Anniversary Cruise, Monday-Friday, September, 25-29, Carnival Liberty. Details

Christmas Show, Saturday, December 9

From The Prez

Much good work is being done in advance of our Show in August. Many tickets have been distributed. Thanks to everyone for your hard work. Be looking in your closet for former uniforms we’ve worn over the years. We hope to have a wide variety of apparel from over the years on the risers for our celebration of 60 years as a Chorus. Enjoy your July 4th Holiday and we’ll see everybody on the 13th! Until next time, KTTWS. SteveG

For the Good of the Chapter

PaulF passed the Gandy to his Baritone buddies and to Chuck as their representative.

From The Program VP

Reminder for Thursday, July 6. No Jimmy, so if guys want to be at Ponders at 7, we can sing the whole polecat books thru - both of them. Plus any other, non repertory songs we care to sing. Bill

Script For Thursday's Meeting

7:00 PM - Meeting at Ponders. See note from Program VP below.

The Old Songs
Darkness On The Delta
Yesterday
Blue Skies arr. by Clay Hine
When She Loved Me
Fun in Just One Lifetime
God Bless America
Let the Rest of the World Go By
Minstrel Montage
Keep The Whole World Singing

Annual Show Songs: Blue Skys, Darkness on the Delta, Fun in Just One Lifetime, God Bless America, Hello Mary Lou, Let the Rest of the World Go By, Minstrel Montage, My Wild Irish Rose, The Old Songs, Wait, Til the Sun Shines, Nelly, When She Loved Me, and Yesterday.

Repertory: America the Beautiful, Armed Forces Medley, Blue Skies, California Here I Come, Can You Feel the Love Tonight, Darkness on the Delta, Georgia on My Mind, God Bless America, Hello Mary Lou, I’m Sittin’ on Top of the World, It’s the Music that Brings Us Together, Let’s Get Away from it All, Old Folks at Home, Star Spangled Banner, Welcome Song, When She Loved Me, When There’s Love at Home, Yesterday, and You Tell Me Your Dream

Marketing and Publicity

Our Annual Show promotional campaign started at last Thursday's rehearsal with the printed Show Poster followed by Poster email launch. Please forward the email Poster to your personal listings.

NOTE: There is no 2 for 1 group ticket option as mentioned in an earlier version of this newsletter.

Come sing at the Friday July 14 Lookouts game! Last year we attracted an audience enjoying our warmups. We will attract more of an audience with more of us! We'll bring tickets and a stack of Posters for handout.

Next is our singing at Hamilton Place Food Court Saturday July 22 at 2 pm. This will be a full show - Chorus and quartets - about 45 minutes. This is a bigger deal than the baseball game, so please come sing! We'll display our large 'Annual Show' and 'Come Sing With Us' posters.

We'll launch our 2nd Poster email toward the end of July.

We plan to have a quartet sing at the Tuesday August 1 Chattanooga Ski Club Business Meeting. We need to have a quartet named soon since I want to get an announcement in the Ski Club's July Newsletter by July 18. If you are interested, let Pete know soon.

With our newest Baritone, Paul Faulkner directing The Chattanooga Community Orchestra to start the 2nd half of the show, we have an opportunity for a very large audience! We need to couple this with the full active support from each Chorus member! Please do all you can to sing at each opportunity, send emails, distribute posters, chat it up, sell 10 tickets and 1 Show Program Ad!

New Business cards will be available soon. Please get a few to put in your wallet. You never know when a new member opportunity might materialize! Thanks!! Rich

John Moselage Profile

I joined the Sea-Tac chapter in 1980 (Sea-Tac is between Seattle and Tacoma), and I sang in the chapter show 3 weeks after joining. Over the years I served as Program VP, Membership VP, Bulletin Editor, Show Chairman, and Chapter President. My main love is singing in a quartet, and I have been in competitions with two registered quartets *John is on the left in the photograph below). I helped get a chapter started in northwest Arkansas.

With several gaps in my membership because we had moved to an area with no chapter, I am now happy to be part of the Choo Choo Chorus. I would love to be a part of a quartet. John Moselage. Top photograph by David Murphree.

Newsletter for July 6 - Corrected