The Choo Choo Chorus Newsletter for November 22

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November 22, 2021

Masquerade Sang Their Christmas Songs For Us

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Script For Monday's Meeting
From The Prez
From The Publicity & Marketing VP

Calendar
(details on website)

Chapter Meeting, Monday, November 22, 7 PM. (Note: This week only we meet on Monday due to Thanksgiving) This meeting is live at Ponders and on Zoom. Click HERE to join the Zoom meeting, and when asked enter the meeting ID: 828 1815 8438, and the passcode: 287835.

Christmas Show, Saturday, December 11, Arrive at 2 PM to sing at 4:00 PM. Ringgold High School Auditorium. Uniform: Black from the waist down and something Christmasy above.

MOAA, Tuesday, December 14, Arrive at 6 PM to sing at 7:00. Walden Club, Uniform: Black from the waist down and something Christmasy above.

Garden Plaza, Saturday, December 18, Arrive at 12 PM to sing at 2:00. Uniform: Black from the waist down and something Christmasy above.

BOTY Nominations

Fred Jesse heads the committee for selecting the Barbershopper Of The Year (BOTY). If members want to nominate someone, contact Fred. Bill Slack

From The Publicity & Marketing VP

Brand Awareness - What can we do to expand our Choo Choo Chorus Brand?

The population of Hamilton County including Chattanooga, is over 400,000. adding the surrounding area takes it over 500,000. What will it take to sellout Ringgold's 850 seat Auditorium on December 11?

We have taken steps in new directions to help fill the seats. But it will take everyone's concerted efforts to achieve our goal.

New Directions

We are donating 110 tickets - 60 for Candlelighters (families and staff), 10 for Ronald McDonald House Staff, 10 For Common House, 20 for Warren and Griffin and 10 for The Target Manager who gave us a $200 Gift Card to cover expenses for our Ponder's Show. What's cool about this, is it will likely mean more people attending than the 110. A staff member with one ticket may often go home and encourage a spouse or friend to buy one in order to accompany them, or even get a group to go.

Rock City 4 has agreed to sing for the Manker Patten Tennis Club's Christmas Party on Saturday, December 4, 6 pm. This tennis facility is considered to be one of the finest in the south east. They expect 150 to 200 to attend. This is another way to expand our Brand Image and sell more tickets. A Big Thanks to Bill, Strick, Benny and Fred!

Script For Monday's Meeting

7:00 PM - Monday (Note: This week only we meet on Monday due to Thanksgiving) - The meeting is in person at Ponders and on Zoom this week.

For Monday, we'll try to run through ALL the songs so that we can see where we are on each one. That will allow me to focus our last few rehearsals before our show. Please spend some extra time on the following songs BEFORE Monday:
Happy Holidays
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Veni, Veni...(O Come, O Come)

Jingle Bells
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
White Christmas
Happy Holidays - It's The Holiday Season
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
We Need a Little Chrismas
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
The Secret Of Christmas
O Come, All Ye Faithful
Silent NIght

Christmas Songs:
1st Half: Jingle Bells, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, White Christmas, Happy Holidays, Santa Claus is Comin to Town, We Need a Little Christmas
2nd Half: Joy to the World Sing Along, Veni, Veni, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Mary Had a Baby, Secret of Christmas

Repertory: America the Beautiful, Armed Forces Medley, 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

From The Prez

Things are beginning to take shape for this year’s Show. If you’re not involved already, step up and join the party! Off the music by our upcoming Monday night meeting would be great! We have two performances after the Show on the 11th, for MOAA on the 14th and Garden Plaza on the 18th. At present, we are not planning any more Thursday rehearsals after the Show until January 2022. See everyone Monday night! Until then, KTTWS! SteveG

From The Publicity & Marketing VP (Continued)

We have a new agreement with Warren & Griffin. In the past, our quartets earned $50 singing for each client - this brought in $1,300 for the 26 stops last Valentines. Now, we will sing for free, while W&G will buy a block of 10 tickets for each client at the discount price of $10. So, for the 28 stops we expect, we will take in $2,800 instead of $1,400. This is really a win to the 4th power! Mark is delighted to offer so much more for his clients, the clients will be happy, this is another $1,400 for Candlelighters and we like it with at least another 300 in attendance! A Big Thanks to the Quartets able to sing on Friday the 10th!!

We have a base of over 400 seats already filled. What does each member need to contribute to achieve our sellout?? Please do all you can, by:

Selling Tickets - buy for your family, then encourage extended family, friends, neighbors, and even church goers after the service to buy tickets. Emphasize that we are singing better than ever and that we have 14 members who are International Gold Medalist Singers! The Show also includes some very talented invited quartets!

Sending our Show information to all of your local email contacts, posting on Facebook and elsewhere. The same will be on our Website, Candlelighters and W&G.

Selling ads in our Show Program. Talk to any service or company that you personally use. You may be surprised in a good way. The worst that can happen is a no. Contact Charlie Holder for details and to post your ad.

Placing Posters all over town - especially the Ringgold area. Good choices include large food store employee break rooms, dry cleaners, Great Clips, liquor stores, workout places and more.

Other efforts:

Pete is investigating the possibility of a Quartet singing on the radio. The same on a TV channel is a possibility.

I will check with The Chattanooga Times Free Press for possible publicity.

What else can we do? Don't be shy with new ideas! RichW