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The Little Things can be HUGE!

The Little Things can be HUGE!

The Little Things can be HUGE! In the third installment of the "last" mission trip we will hit on some relatively small things that help to make the tour run more smoothly. Some of these things you have likely done yourself, but if they are new to you, you might give...

The PERFECT Fund Raiser

The Perfect Fund Raiser. This is the first of a series on the last choir tour. It is somewhat of a retrospective on 35 years of choir touring with some added things about the planning for the current tour. I hope this series will be helpful to you. We are...

The Mother of Invention

The Mother of Invention

So here is the problem: The high school choir (Sonlight) is the service choir in place of the adult choir for a Sunday morning in December. The reason that the students are taking on the adult's normal role is because it is the weekend of the adult choir's huge...

Come to the Water CueTALK

Come to the Water CueTALK

At the recent gathering of some YouthCUE directors in Newport Beach we were all asked to prepare a 6 minute CueTALK.  Here is mine! The App on my phone says Lazy CD Free. The CD is for "countdown".  Today, the number in the square is 486. The countdown? It started on...

Wisdom Never Gets Old

I was listening to an interview on NPR with the writer of the recent film “The Intern.”  In passing,  she said,   “you know, wisdom never gets old.”     (By the way, it is a really good film, I recommend it to you!)   That interview made...

Does Everyone You Know. . . . Know?

For this month’s blog I am returning to my “recruiting and marketing” assignment—just for this month—since we are all thinking about beefing up our recruiting efforts for the Fall.   Here is the question—Does everyone you know-know that you direct a great youth...

Staging the “Reveal”

Staging the “Reveal” For years, when it came time to tell the high school choir where the trip for the following summer would be I just. . . well. . .  told them.  Those days are gone. Recently, “reveal parties” have become popular and I have become a...