Singing
Valentine's
Looking for the perfect gift for your Valentine?
To reserve a singing valentine call 257-7300 ext
102
Leave a number where you can be reached without speaking to your Valentine!
Singers will travel throughout
Brattleboro and neighboring towns, delivering singing valentines as a
fundraiser for our scholarships and outreach.
Our package will include two heartwarming melodies sung by women festooned
in holiday pink and red, and three delicious “Ticket to Heaven” truffles
in a heart-shaped box. Be thinking of which special friend, spouse, partner,
colleague, teacher, or parent you'd like to surprise with something really
lovely this year!! The Valentines cost $35 within 5 miles of Brattleboro,
and from 5 to 15 miles of Brattleboro, the cost is $45.
SPRING SEMESTER 2008 SIGN UP
We will begin rehearsals Wednesday March 5 and meet from 7 – 8:30 in March, April, and May. (We go later close to the concerts.) March rehearsals will hopefully be at the Guilford Church , April and May will be at All Souls Church .
Rehearsals:
Wednesday, March 5
Wednesday, March 12
TUESDAY March 18
Wednesday March 26
Wednesday April 2
Wednesday April 9
Wednesday April 16
NO REHEARSAL Wednesday April 23
Wednesday April 30 7-9
Wednesday May 7 7-9
Thursday May 8 7-9 and/or Friday May 9 7 - 9
SUNDAY MAY 11 CONCERT/SINGALONG 4:00 concert probably 1:00 gathering and run through
Wednesday May 14
Wednesday May 21
NO REHEARSAL May 28
POSSIBLE Sunday June 1 late morning, early afternoon in the Latchis
Possible MONDAY June 2
Wednesday June 4
CONCERT Friday June 6
This spring 2008 we have two concerts:
MOTHER'S DAY CONCERT/SINGALONG, Sunday May 11:
Songs of Mothers, Grandmothers, and Children (including “On Children” and “Breaths” from Sweet Honey, Holly Near's “1,00 Grandmothers”, a song called “Music in My Mother's House”, probably “The Stove” (“One day my mother picked up a sledge hammer, and pounded the kitchen stove into bits”…….)
Celebrating Women in Agriculture event, Friday June 6:
We will sing several songs, including “When Harvesting Arugula”, “ A Girl's Garden”, “A Garden of My Own” by Patricia McKernon (who wrote “Tell Me Again My Love” and “Blessed Are We”, perhaps Heifer Stroll Jive, and Milk Bucket Boogie
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| Bill Gehman in his earlier years, at Gemini Studios,
Londonderry, Vermont. Photo courtesy of Ira Wilner and Alan Lewis’ Chelsea House Folklore Center website |
Singing for Bill...
Several small groups of chorus members sang around the bedside of our long time cheerleader and supporter, Bill Gehman in early January.
Bill recorded our first concert in the Fall of 1996, and was our biggest fan from that day forward. Our CD was playing the song “Time Has Made A Change” as he took his last breath on January 12, 2007 , and the moment afterwards, “We Wish You a Happy Birthday” began to play. Some of us sang at Bill’s memorial service.
We will miss him, his support, and his good work.