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Paul Edmondson, President


Alabama Vocal Association Didn’t we have a great Winter In-Service confer-


ence? I would like to thank all of you who helped in making it a success, especially our AMEA Executive Director Garry Taylor. Special kudos to those of you who presented, per- formed and presided. Weren’t our guest clinicians phenom- enal? We were motivated and inspired by John Leavitt, and we were entertained and encouraged by John Jacobson. When I left, I was ready to lift high my boom-whacker and conquer the world, but realized, in my case, that I need to lift my umbrella. It seems that every event that I have been in- volved with as President of AVA has been deluged with in- clement weather. One of our members gave me the idea of contracting out to some of our drought-stricken neighbors. You think north Georgia would want me to put together a choral festival?


That brings me to our next event which will be All- State, March 13-15 at Samford University in Birmingham. We will once again have all choirs, both mid- dle and high schools, on the same campus. That seemed to work out really well last year. Each of you who will be participating will be getting an information packet from Damion Womack that will include all im- portant information including rehearsal mon- itoring responsibilities. I always appreciate your willingness to assist in these areas.


State Festival will be held April 21-25. We will begin the week in Daphne and will end the week in Florence. I am going to try to reserve Wednesday for travel for the ad- judicators. Just bear with us as we will be trying to schedule as many groups as possible with the requests to accommo- date.


I would like to close by thanking each of you for fur- thering the cause of choral music education in our state, and also by thanking the AVA governing board as they each are extremely hard working and has your true interests at heart. I challenge each of you to continue to support your district chair and to let them know if you are willing to help out. We would really appreciate it! See you at All-State!!


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