Looking Back on the August
29th Annual Dog Days Multi-Chapter Event
The annual gathering of
Northern Virginia choruses to sing for each other and share a nite of fun barbershop
was hosted for the 37th time on Aug. 29th by the Prince
William County Chapter at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Manassas.
The Harmony
Heritage Singers from Mount Vernon were the first to perform, directed by Drew Fuller. One of their songs was
"Old Bones" with Bob Wachter
doing the solo that Bix Doughty had sung for many year. Bob received a standing ovation.
Fairfax
chorus had Drew Fuller, Art Medici,
Bruce Minnick and Sam McFarland singing
with them. Former member Richard Lewellen directed.
Loudoun
County followed with a full set of chorus songs and chapter quartets
Prince
William County, directed by former Harmonizer Glenn Williamson, performed a set with chorus and chapter quartets.
Bruce Lauther sang in both the
chorus and one of the quartets. Their chapter provided refreshments.
Our chapter
riser crew brought the risers and the host chapter’s crew set them up. Mike Kelly set up and monitored our
sound equipment.
Harmonizers
were the last group to perform and received a standing ovation at the end of
the set.
The group
sang "Happy Birthday" to Tony
Colosimo at the suggestion of director Joe
Cerutti. One of the quartets saluted former member Larry and Cathy Silva on
their 37th anniversary (a couple of months in the future).
We had 57
active chorus members onstage and performed the contest set (without choreo)
and two gospel numbers.
Joe also invited any former
members interested to join the chorus on the risers to perform the "Armed
Forces Medley" and "I'll Be Seeing You." Nick Murane, Keith Jones, Bruce Minnick, Bob Wachter, JT Price, Lew
Klinge, Mike Everard and Austin
Cotton (hoping we didn’t miss anyone)
came up and sang with us.
Dog Days
was well-attended by families and friends of the various chapters.
(Thanks to Keith Jones
for reporting the event for these notes.)
Until next time – editorjack!
(This message is prepared for your review if you
were there, for your information if you had to miss, and as a historical record
of the great things going on each week during the 70th year of the
Alexandria Harmonizer Chapter. —YeEd
