Well, everyone, I just wanted to stop by with a big Howdy! and introduce myself. I am a past church youth, adult, and children's choir director and have been leader and co-leader of our worship team for the past 24 years. I play flute and piccolo and am learning the clarinet. I am a mezzo soprano and sing mostly descant harmony to our pastor's tenor and his wife's soprano. When I have bronchitis, I can sing tenor rather well. :) I have a minor in music performance (primarily flute with some voice) and a BA in Modern Foreign Languages (French and Spanish) and a Masters Degree in PreK-12 Special Education. I am a certified K-6 Elementary school teacher and a 7th-12th grade certified English teacher. My day job is high school Life Skills teacher. I'm really excited to be a part of this group. Singing is my passion!

It's nearly September, that must mean starting to rehearse Christmas music, right?

Wouldn't you love to get telemarketers to hang up on you and take your name off their lists? Here is a way to use your choral abilities to cut way down on robocalls! I answer the call, and then speak only Latin. Usually I use the lyrics to O Come All Ye Faithful or part of a Requiem Mass. For example, "Adeste Fideles? Laeti triumphantes? Veníte?" By then, the person usually asks if I speak English and then hangs up when I say no because they can never figure out what language I am actually talking in! This has worked much more effectively than when I signed up for the Do Not Call list or when I just blocked the calls. Give it a try!

Check out the recording here - you have to click on this post to see it

For our current virtual choir “give me Jesus”