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Tags and Swipes, Fall 2021

Farmington Valley Chorus

The In’s and Outs of Farmington Valley

We’d been braving the great outdoors… then cherishing indoors… and once again we’re back outdoors (stupid
virus).

Our normal church rehearsal site is re-doing their multi-purpose room and their parking lot. We’re not getting
in there anytime soon, so we were outdoors at the church’s secondary parking lot in front of their boy scout
hall. It has convenient steps, kind of like risers, but they wouldn’t let us in to use the bathroom, or to escape
the killer mosquitoes that descended as the sun went down, or when the heat was oppressive (it wasn’t the
heat – it was the humidity). So that was out. We traveled down the road a titch to another church and were
inside when the mask mandates were lifted. Wahoo! For a couple of weeks we really enjoyed being together,
unmasked, singing and laughing, and doing fun physical warmups with Betsy… and then bummer – the variant
put us outside again. It’s not so bad though, except sometimes the hum of the airplanes flying overhead is in
the wrong key for whatever song we’re trying to start.

We’ve had a steady stream of 20+ members attending each week. Some are sitting it out to come back in when
they feel it’s safe, and we’ve had a few new members come in to join us. We sang in Mayu (top left picture)
and Carly (top right picture) who both stuck it out with us in the Zoom days, and Rebecca (bottom, center
picture) all the way from New Orleans who moved in to Connecticut just before the shut down. We’ve got two
more potential members waiting in the wings learning their audition music and can’t wait to get out with us.

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