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GNU 2009 Tour
On a bright Friday afternoon, over 90 people gathered to begin the 2009 Great Northern Union tour in order to sing 5 performances in 4 venues at a variety of locations in Minnesota over a 3 day weekend. Friday: Duluth, Saturday: Appleton (MN), Sunday: Willmar & Oakdale.
We gathered at Guardian Angels Catholic Church in Oakdale since we'll end up there Sunday evening.
Our buses.
We had a large group of nearly 80 singers and nearly 100 including all our guests.
Whle traveling long stretches, we work on learning a new song that we'll sing on our June show - Go The Distance.
In Duluth, we sang in Mitchell Hall on the campus of St. Scholastic
Each venue required set up risers, warming up, getting into tuxes, etc.
Balcony view of our performanc
Many quartets aided our success. Here Engage sings.
A
quartet of young men sang for our audience - Expedition
The Land O' Lakes 2008 District Champion Quartet, Vocality, includes several chapter members.
During our travels, Holiday Inn was our home away from home. This is the motel in Willmar.
Appleton, Minnesota High School was another venue where we sang. Here's their school marker.
Nearby churches provided us meals and dressing rooms. This church was across the street from the Appleton venue.
Appleton auditorium with the chorus performing for a most appreciati
Roger Bull did a yeomen's job as our announcer keeping each audience informed and the show moving.
Current LOL District Quartet Champions, X-Factor, entertaine
Appleton poster advertisin
On
both Friday & Saturday evenings we had a chorus meeting to evaluate our
performanc
Sunday morning, we sang 2 church services at Calvary Lutheran Church in Willmar.
Sunday brunch was provided by the church after which we sang them a song of thanks.
Guardian Angels Catholic Church created this poster advertisin
The
third full show performanc
Another chapter quartet, Snap!, shared our stage.
One
song features 5 young men with the chorus singing in the background
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