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Tags and Swipes, Fall 2020

Valley Shore Acappella Chorus

This has been an unprecedented time for Angie provided us with some amazing coaches
everyone…and especially for singing groups. In during this time. Thanks to the internet, we
March we were looking for a new director. When welcomed Anna-Lisa Glad who led us through
rehearsals were shut down, our director, Angie some amazing warm-ups. She was so full of
Kunasek, graciously agreed to stay with us thru energy and enthusiasm that we were all inspired!
this shut down. What a blessing that has been. Next we were lucky enough to have Kim
With Angie’s help, we started virtual rehearsals in Wonders visit us. Needless to say, we were
April. It was so good to see the friendly faces of thrilled to have her. We got to ask so many
our singing sisters. We spent some time just questions on improving our craft. She is truly a
catching up and finding out how we all were wealth of knowledge in SAI. Angie also
coping. Then Angie started regular warm-ups, managed to invite Quincie Snook, the tenor from
both voice and physically. Just before the The Ladies quartet. We’ve had some terrific
lockdown, VSA purchased a package of love evenings on our virtual rehearsals. We’ve also
songs. So we started learning them and going over had pretty great attendance from our members.
them during rehearsal! Of course, due to varying We’re definitely a small chorus but our
bandwidths, we were unable to sing together. We enthusiasm is strong. We love to sing as all of
all heard Angie and/or the learning tracks, but all SAI members do. This has been tough but we
the other voices were muted. It was different but will get through this together. We will meet
we were all grateful to be together at all. again soon. We’ll be singing in harmony!

Mary Lou Zinser

VSA Working with Kim Wonders

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