Date: March 6, 2000 TONIGHT AT 6:30 PM

Erin is coming! Erin is coming! We got a taste of things to come last Monday, when our Presentation Coach, Stacy Hugman-Frenette got us moving in unison and looking like we actually knew what we were doing.

Erin Howden is the choreographer for Toronto's North Metro Chorus, Sweet Adeline International, two time gold medal winners, and the Toronto MegaCity Chorus. She has made them look like the champs they are. If we work hard and pay close attention, she will help us to improve our look and stage presence as well.

This is going to be an intense evening, so make sure you are listening carefully to what is said. Hold your questions until the end. That way we can all get the necessary information in the order Erin wants to give it to us.

Mountain Division Contest Site and Timing confirmed. The Mountain Division Contest will be held on Saturday, April 8, 2000. The quartet contest will be held in the morning, starting at 11:00 am and will be followed by the chorus contest starting at about 1:15 pm. We will be singing in the second spot.

The venue is the same as last year, Schuylerville High School, Schuylerville, NY. Bert Brossoit will reveal details on travel and hotel/motel arrangements (if required) very soon.

Key of Eh? in Hudson Music Club's "Broadway, Encore." The Hudson Music Club are putting on a great evening of music from Broadway Musicals over the past Century. Key of Eh? have been rehearsing with the Hudson Music Club since October and have recently added Don Dufort as part time bass. The performances are March 10, 11, 17 & 18, 2000 at the Cité des Jeunes in Vaudreueil. Tickets are available from Jeffery, Ron, Al or Murray at $15.00 for evening shows and $10.00 for matinees. All seats are reserved..

Big Brothers and Big Sisters Bowlathon 2000 will be held on Saturday, April 15, 2000. Our Presentation Coach, Stacy Hugman-Frenette is organizing the event and would like as many teams as possible to participate. She is suggesting that we go to Le Manoir afterwards for dinner.

If you are interested and would like further details, ask Stacy when she visits us, or ask Richard who will pass along your request for information.

Get your tickets and sell advertising for our Annual Show/Concert. Our show for 2000, "Beginning to See the Light," will be on Saturday, May 20 in Salle Claude Champagne at Université de Montréal and will feature PLATINUM, the 1999 Silver Medallist Quartet and the 1998 Harmony, Inc. International Champion quartet, Blue Champagne. This will be Blue Champagne's final performance. More than half the tickets are gone!

Reminder 1: Rob Mance is offering Music Theory Lessons. If you are interested, please let him know.

Reminder 2: Criteria for Division Contest. Over the next few weeks Rob Mance will be asking each of us, individually, to work with him for 5 to 10 minutes so that he can get an idea of how we are doing with our competition repertoire. He will then give us some suggestions on things we need to work on, and possibly set-up another time to meet with him. This should help him to see the level each of us has achieved and for us to find out what areas we need to work on in order to make the chorus as a whole progress to that next level.

Learn your Music. Tapes for Basin Street Blues, I Only Have Eyes for You and Harmony were made available two weeks ago. Don't forget to get yours.

We are off the paper on I Only Have Eyes for You tonight, and Basin Street Blue for next week. Harmony should be memorised by March 20. By March 27, we should have all the songs for the show in our personal memory banks. They are as follows.

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Practice is something we do at home, every day, between rehearsals!

Rehearsal is where we reinforce what we have been practising every day!