Season One, 2007-08

We held our first gathering in December of 2007, started work in the spring of 2008 and ended our season in a surprise Hopelands appearance and a planned program at the Aiken County Historical Museum. In the meantime, we had a “lite” performance at St. John’s UMC with only six singers, sang a few National Anthems for the Green Jackets, joined the USCA concert choir for our first real event at St. Thaddeus and recorded CD #1, “What Are You Waiting For”.

"Off and running!"

Season Two, 2008-09

We opened season two with our newly commissioned “Working on the Railroad” for one piano, four hands and sixteen singers by Tessa Teddar and featured Joel Scraper and James Bennett as the four hands. That collaboration gave us a taste for raising money for others (USCA Music and Youth Music at Aiken’s First Baptist Church). And it eased the way for a collaboration with Joel’s Masterworks Chorale, a return to First Baptist for their concert series and a joint fund raiser for The Aiken Center for the Arts with Diane Haslam’s Aiken Singers. The season ended with a spectacular trip to Scotland by a brave six singers.

"Collaborations begin!"

Season Three, 2009-10

We found our way back to Hopelands Gardens, released our second CD, “Viva La More!”, developed a boys choir at Chukker Creek Elementary, got ourselveds organized with a view to the future, started a scholarship for music students at USCA and discovered jazz. A very exciting year that included a trip to Kentucky, a collaborations with the Aiken Choral Society, a (short) trip to the Appleby Concert Series in Augusta and more work with the Aiken Singers and others at The Aiken Center for the Arts.

"More travel. More collaborations. More singing."

Season Four, 2010-11

This season featured a fall show with Harmony River Sweet Adelines and a spring effort called “From the Heart” at the Museum. Our Tom Calhoun started working with our second boys choir, soon to be known as “No Boundaries” at the newly renamed East Aiken School of the Arts. Yet another venture with Aiken Singers, two trips to Hopelands Gardens with various musical friends of ours and a Scottish effort for the local St. Andrews Society rounded out this busy singing season.

"Broadening out - getting some focus."

Season Five, 2011-12

Our big musical venture in the fall was a collaboration with Joel Scraper’s USCA Concert Choir and the women of M’Aiken Music at the Aiken Center for the Arts. In January we met with Aiken County elementary music teachers as we continue to develop our boys choir program. The idea was to form a county-wide boys choir that will be selected/auditioned and will include voice lessons, music theory, piano (we hope) as well as the boychoir that we hope will be 15 – 40 boys with unchanged voices and in interest in singing. We sang a program called “The Time Line” with the 60-or so of the Columbia County Civic Orchestra. It was quite a treat singing with a symphony orchestra, once in Augusta and once at Aiken’s First Baptist Church. We visited Schofield Middle to try to stir up some more interest in singing boys, and had a visit to Chukker Creek to sing with “Boundary Boys”

"Settling in. Branching out."