The Champlain Valley Chorus is a fun, supportive group of women.
To tell about the chorus on the web site, members were invited to share some of their . . .

CHORUS MEMORIES

* Being at a NYC competition, when suddenly there was a loud noise and the lid from the street sewer shot up past our 13th floor hotel window, followed by a trail of brown -----?

* Being stuck in a packed hotel elevator with half of the chorus for almost two hours. No one knew where we were. We never made it to the Show of Shows After Glow and had to wait for the elevator technician to arrive from out-of-town to let us out. We sang and told jokes to calm  our spirits. Some chorus members, who had gone to bed, wouldn't believe what had happened.

* Trying not to cry when we sang Christmas carols to the sick and elderly.

* Getting up before dawn to go sing Valentines.

* Walking 1/4 mile carrying high heels and costumes at zero degrees on top of Lyon Mountain to the American Legion Christmas Party sing-out. We had parked at the wrong place, opened our electronic car window to watch a full-moon eclipse, and then discovered a dead battery. Brrr!

* Screaming the loudest ever when we won small chorus 3rd place in 1997!

* The "screaming the loudest" reminds me when we took 4th in Saratoga.  Honestly, I thought I was going to have an attack of some sort.  We were aiming for fifth and when the fifth place announcement came and went we kind of sighed and thought "Well, we did our best".  And when they announced the 4th place winner and it was Champlain Valley we couldn't believe it.  I can remember George going to the stage to receive the award and on the way down the aisle he stopped midway and rested.  He was in shock as well as the rest of us.  What a moment!

* Keeping our focus singing while lending a hand to a chorus member who fell in the middle of the risers.
The show must go on!

* I am not sure if this is the kinda story that you want but it really struck me when we drove to Keesville and sang to a little elderly lady that was caring for her grandaughter who was just home from many stays in the hospital because she had been badly hurt in an accident. There was another person at the house who was taking care of them.  The other granddaughter had sent us there. How sad for some people.

*  Then this year when we sang to the guy at the place back of the bowling alley and then the place closed and all those people lost their jobs.

* Siding down the slippery banks into a cat-tail ditch when cleaning the NY Route 9N. Dressed in yellow hard hats, orange vests, gloves, and carrying a long "grabber" and heavy duty trash bags, a team of us covered two miles, then usually had lunch at the Royal Savage Restaurant, where we told stories about the "stuff" we had found. We miss the restaurant. It's gone, but we still clean the roadway.

2001 Competition

2000 Competition

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