The Acorn – Feb. 25, 2025 – OCS Weekly News

Type of post: Chorus news item
Sub-type: The Acorn
Posted By: Eva Snapp
Status: Current
Date Posted: Wed, Feb 26 2025
The Acorn – Feb. 25, 2025 – OCS Weekly News

1. High Notes
  • Feb. 24 rehearsal: With Carol back, we are knuckling down for Contest – only 5 regular rehearsals away!
  • March 3 (Monday): the usual. 4000 Glenaire Circle, Cary.
    • 6:45p: Mixed
    • 8p: Business meeting
    • 8:15p: Men’s
2. Overtures
  • March 4 (TUESDAY) is the Early Bird registration deadline – and room block reservation deadline – for the District Contest.
  • Any Concert Suggestions? – The more organizational funding we get from group concerts, the less formal fundraising we have to do. Contact our Marketing VP Bob Inskeep with any ideas.

3. Carol's Cadence 
  • It was so good to be back with you all! We did some GREAT work! Let's make it a goal to keep practicing new good habits BETWEEN Mondays so we can keep moving forward from where we left off.
    • Sing ideas. Be led by what you are trying to say instead of when you get to take your next breath.
    • Keep forward momentum going throughout the song.
    • Make an open mouth and an engaged body your default settings.
  • There will be a mass chorus sing immediately following the chorus contest in Pinehurst (April 5). This will be a fun opportunity to sing with a LOT of other barbershoppers under the direction of several directors from the district (including Carol). Dust off your polecat books and polecat adjacent songs (like Coney Island) so that you can join in the fun! Give special attention to “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie.” We don't have a lot of rehearsal time to commit to this, but we can gather in small groups to sing some of these songs before and after rehearsals and during breaks.
  • I'm pretty sure that everyone will be a part of the May 19 gig at Springmoor. Patriotic repertoire will be identified soon.
  • To rehearse for Monday, March 3:
Mixed Chorus:
        • What a Wonderful World
        • I Didn’t Want to Fall
        • I Only Have Eyes for You
        • I’ve Got the World on a String – review the key change!
        • Lion Sleeps Tonight
Men’s Chorus:
        • Almost Like Being in Love
        • Over the Rainbow
        • Two Less Lonely People
        • Lazy Day
        • Where Everybody Knows Your Name


4. Accelerando
  • March 24 (Monday), 6:15p call for 7p show – Glenaire Concert (usual location, but performance wear!)
  • April 4 - 5 (Fri-Sat): Carolinas District Convention/Contest, Pinehurst, N.C.
  • April 14 (Mon), 7pm: Searstone
  • April 26 (Saturday), 10:45am, TENTATIVE: Spring Daze, Cary, N.C.
  • April 28 (Mon), 7pm: Springmoor
  • May 19 (Mon), 7pm: Springmoor, Memorial Day Theme – possible quartet only
  • June 8 (Sunday), 3pm: Preston Pointe
  • Aug 4 (Monday): The Cardinal
  • December 1 (Mon): Whispering Pines
  • December 8 (Mon): The Cardinal
  • December 15 (Mon), 7pm: Springmoor
  • December 22 (Mon), 7pm: Waltonwood (Lake Boone Trail)

5. In Harmony  (Around the BHS World)
  • Upcoming events:
    • April 4 & 5: NSC Spring Convention and Contest, Pinehurst, NC. Registration is OPEN! Early bird registration & room block held through March 4.   https://www.carolinasdistrict.org/2025/01/05/annual-convention-and-contest-register-now/
      • Like last year, the North Carolina Harmony Brigade will be "hosting" a Convention kickoff luncheon on Friday April 4, 2025, at 12:30pm at Dugan's Pub, 2 Market Square, Pinehurst, NC 28374.
        • You are on your own for costs, but the full menu will be available. It is a nice social time to start the convention weekend, and who knows, a song or tag might break out!
        • Please email Nic Cols at ncols21@gmail.com to let him know if you will come, then he can give a good estimate to the restaurant. See you there!
    • June 29 – July 6:  International Convention, Denver, Colorado
    • July 18 – 20, 2025: Lakeside Harmony Weekend, Furman University, Greenville, S.C. à LINK NOT YET UPDATED FOR 2025: https://lakesideharmony.org/

6. Major & Minor Moods
Please send our friends your prayers & best wishes!
  • Nice to have Carol back!