Rehearsing for The Day the Music Thrived

posted June 6, 2013


Beautiful banner created by Alison Wood.

Tonight we met in Conway to rehearse for Sunday’s concert. Here is a portion of a video of us practicing “Georgia O.”

Once again, details of the show:
Sunday June 9
First Churches of Northampton
corner of Main and Center Streets
3-4:30pm

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