Choir Hat

For the last several years I have been honored to be a part of the Rochester Area Girls Choir. This is a group of K-10 girls. We always start the year with a choir camp. We start at 8:30 a.m. and spend the day together until our evening concert at 6:00 or so. We sing, sing, sing, do some crafts, eat some food, and sing, sing, sing, some more. By the end of the day I am ready to be silent and relax, but it is a great way to jump start friendships and a sense of sisterhood between the girls.

These pictures are from the concert we perform for the parents as they come to retrieve their children. It is amazing how much the girls can learn in one day. Miraculous is probably a better word.
















At the end of the year we participate in a weekend tour to some exotic locale like Stillwater, MN, Marshfield, WI, or New Ulm, MN. We share our music everywhere we stop including McDonald's, Pizza Hut, a Pancake House, and anywhere else we can. We stay in a hotel over night so the girls and I can swim. The moms have traveled with us every year, but we will need to see if everyone can fit on the bus this time. We have about 50 girls this year. The most we have ever had while I have been at the wheel.


Our tour last spring allowed us to visit Diane Toogood's (founder/accompanist) mother in Wisconsin. We also were able to stop at Nelson's for ice cream and Lark Toys for a ride on the carousel. Even Diane took a ride. It was great fun!