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Springfield Metro Chorus Offers Singing Christmas Cards

(Photo courtesy Springfield Metro Chorus)

Springfield Metro Chorus, a group of women who celebrate and perform the art form known as "barbershop" music, presents "Singing Christmas Cards" this season to wish your friends and family a happy holiday.  Chorus members will deliver a live singing Christmas card and a personal message anywhere in the USA over the phone on Saturday Dec.20.  Tenor Becky Clifton-Hopkins, lead singer Diane Durham, bass Julie Hockensmith and baritone Tawny Brown came to the KSMU studios to perform two of the six numbers that they'll have available for the phoned-in Christmas Cards: Silver Bells and Jingle Bell Rock.  There are six songs in all to choose from, in addition to the two they performed for us today: The Secret of Christmas, Little St. Nick, Mary Did You Know, and Christmas is a Feeling.  Cost is $10 and orders are being accepted through 9:00pm TONIGHT (Friday December 19) at 893-9169 or online at www.springfieldmetrochorus.com. They'll commence with the singing Christmas Card messages at 9:00am Saturday Dec.20 and continue until around 6:00pm.

Also, the group will be auditioning women who "like to sing" to join the approximately 45-member Springfield Metro Chorus on Monday January 5th starting at 6:00pm at 525 South Avenue.

Randy Stewart joined the full-time KSMU staff in June 1978 after working part-time as a student announcer/producer for two years. His job has evolved from Music Director in the early days to encompassing production of a wide range of arts-related programming and features for KSMU, including the online and Friday morning Arts News. Stewart assists volunteer producers John Darkhorse (Route 66 Blues Express), Lee Worman (The Gold Ring), and Emily Higgins (The Mulberry Tree) with the production of their programs. He's also become the de facto "Voice of KSMU" in recent years due to the many hours per day he’s heard doing local station breaks. Stewart’s record of service on behalf of the Springfield arts community earned him the Springfield Regional Arts Council's Ozzie Award in 2006.