NCC: A New Year

The NCC season has begun.  Yep, before I even had a chance to settle into the novel idea of summer vacation, the girls' choir year began with a three day daycamp and subsequent performance of the National Anthem at Greer Stadium in Nashville.  The choir has performed at the Nashville Sounds games for some 20+ years at the beginning of the choral season.  It is kind of a neat tradition.  Hot and sticky and mildly boring (c'mon, it's minor league baseball...and I find major league baseball pretty boring)...but neat. :)  Here are some pictures of daycamp and the stadium performance, and of course...the video!

I only had my camera phone during daycamp, hence the blur.  But I still thought I'd take a picture of the time that made me the happiest--seeing my girls hanging out with old friends from last year and developing relationships with new choristers.

This made me laugh.  Mr. Kyle, as the kids call him, is a brilliant accompianist.  He was having to do thousands of rounds of arpeggios over the course of almost 2 hours while Dr. Bridges carefully divided the choristers into voice parts.  Understandably, he is looking for a way to not go crazy--by surfing Facebook and playing video games on his phone while simultaneously playing the piano.  Moo is a first soprano this year (though she was told that she was quite versatile and may jump into different parts if needed) and Belle is a second soprano.  I'm glad that they are two different parts again this year--it makes for more fun listening to the harmonies they create.

Entering Greer Stadium.  Ahh...what would this day be like if it were NOT 101 in the shade??  I'm afraid we may never know...

Spraying down the field ahead of the game.

The Sounds warm up.  Mom--there is your family BBQ place on the yellow billboard!

Making their way onto the field.

Waiting for their time to begin.

Ozzie--the mascot for the Nashville Sounds.

Ozzie helped the kids warm-up.  Kinda.

All I kept thinking about was how Ozzie would escape heat stroke?

The Sounds take the field at the end of the National Anthem.

The video: