Christmas Show 2007

with Tonic Sol fa

December 19, 2007

Thanks to Linda and Mike Scheidegger (Mike is a VOA member) for taking these pictures. As you can see, they're from a different angle and include the opening segments with VOA.

This eight-man ensemble has been working on Drummer Boy for several weeks and gave a great performance of the Christmas favorite.

John Kreipe became the "narrator" for that Christmas guest...

...who could it be...

...why it is! It's the Christmas Banana! VOA has sung "The Christmas Banana" ever since former American BarberBoys member David Noe wrote the words and melody.

Besides portraying the Christmas Banana, Curtis Zahnd also ably took care of emcee duties. By the way, thanks to Janet Alexander for creating this clever costume; it's hard to do it full justice in pictures since it included it's own lighting system!

Thanks also to Cheryl Herrman for plaing piano on two of our songs.

We also had a "boys choir" for The Christmas Canon.

An emotional highlight for many of us is "I Have Seen the Light". The trio is made up of (l-r) Shaun Agnew, Byron Myers and Bemo Myers.

Chapter quartet Chordtime sang three songs during the transition from VOA to Tonic Sol-fa.

Sandy Gumm also made announcements regarding the Singing Valentines coming up in a few weeks.

Then the hightlight of the evening -- Tonic Sol-fa!