KITTY STONE SINGERS
The Kitty Stone Singers elementary choir, under the direction of Lisa Gillespie and Cheryl Wight, consists of fourth through sixth grade students who meet once a week after school. The ensemble has been a fixture in the Jacksonville City School system throughout the school’s history. The choir maintains a membership enrollment of 60-80 singers yearly. The Kitty Stone Singers perform in a variety of community events including the Jacksonville State University Honor Choir Festival, the annual Lighting of the Jacksonville Christmas Tree and the JSU David L. Walters Department of Music holiday program. The choir enjoys performing both traditional repertoire as well as show choir style musicals.
Georgia native Lisa Gillespie, currently works as a band director, choir director and general music teacher at Kitty Stone Elementary in Jacksonville, AL. She has performed as a percussionist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and as a member of the touring ensemble Chix with Stix. After studying percussion performance at Georgia State University, Mrs. Gillespie moved to Alabama to join her husband, Clint Gillespie, Assistant Director of Bands at Jacksonville State University. She completed her Bachelor of Art and Master of Art in music education at Jacksonville State. Ms. Gillespie received her Orff-Schulwerk certification from Samford University and was named Teacher of the Year in the Jacksonville City School System in 2011. She has hosted over 40 student teachers and countless practicum and educational psychology students from JSU in her elementary classroom. Mrs. Gillespie served as a presenter at the AMEA state convention in 2015. She endorses Innovative Percussion Inc. as a Performing Percussionist. Mrs. Gillespie treasures her time with her husband, Clint Gillespie and her four-year-old son William.
Cheryl Wight serves as an elementary music teacher, assistant beginning band director and co-director of the Kitty Stone Singers at Kitty Stone Elementary School in Jacksonville, Alabama. Due to the growing music program at Kitty Stone Elementary, the school system created this position in 2014. She completed her Bachelor of Art in music education at Abilene Christian University and her Master of Art in Vocal Performance from Arizona State University. Mrs. Wight taught high school choir, junior high choir and elementary music in Texas and Arizona before staying home to raise her 4 children. She and her husband moved to Anniston with their family in 2003, when her husband began teaching voice and directing opera at Jacksonville State University. Mrs. Wight is blessed to live with her husband, Dr. Nathan Wight, and their 4 children.
Concert Program
Friday, 10:30 AM MPAC
Ding-a Ding-a Ding
......................................................Greg Gilpin
................................................................Shawnee Press Flight of the Grackles...................................................Janet Gardner
................................................................BriLee Music Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burnin’
..................arr. Greg Gilpin
................................................Colla Voce Music, Inc. Will I Meet You There?............................................James
Woodward...............................................................not published Humpty Dumpty.....................................................Dave and Jean Perry
...................................Alfred Publishing Company
O Sifuni Mungu
...................................................arr. by Roger Emerson .......................................Hal Leonard Corporation Words and music by David Maddux, Marty McCall, Mmunga Mwenebulongo Mulongoy and Asukulu 'Yunu Mukalay
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