AC SINGERS KICKING OFF NEW SEASON WITH FOREST FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE
As
the AC Singers prepare for their Sunday performance at the Forest
Festival, they do so while mixing a little old with the new.
The 2007-2008 line-up of Angelina College students will feature several
established sophomore performers to carry on some of the AC Singers
traditional routines, and a bevy of incoming freshmen with talent unique
enough to add new material.
“We have a good variety of talent, a good talent pool filled with
diversity,” AC Singer director Beckie Compton said. “We have students
from all around the area, and several of them bring some special
individual talents we hope to highlight throughout the year.”
This year’s group of AC Singers includes sophomores Dominique Douglas
(Lufkin), Erin Nelson (Buffalo), Adam Scott (Lufkin) and Sarah Jackson
(Hudson). Freshmen members are Erica Rains (Huntington), Jeremy Powell
(Diboll), Josh Griffin (Huntington), Hallie Collier (Huntington), Esther
McClure (Nacogdoches), Mandy Smith (Diboll) and Courtney Gaither. Bryan
Harkness of Lufkin will again provide the sound for the group.
Along with the traditional Broadway, tap, clogging, disco and
country/western numbers for which the AC Singers are known, the group
hopes to include several solo numbers: Erica Rains, former captain of
the Huntington drill team, is working on a dance solo. Harkness (guitar)
and Griffin (trumpet) are expected to perform instrumental work.
Gaither, with her theater background, is working to develop stage
routines.
“We’ll always perform certain numbers handed down through the years,”
Compton said. “That’s where our sophomores come into play, with their
experience of our traditions.
“But I have to say I’m extremely excited about our new performers and
their abilities. They’ll definitely help keep the ‘variety’ in our
variety shows.”
Other AC Singer performances for the year are as follows:
East Texas Forest Festival – Sunday, Sept. 23, 2-3 p.m., Main Stage of
the Expo Center
Pineywoods Fair (Nacogdoches) – Thursday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., Nacogdoches
Expo Center
State Fair (Dallas) – Thursday, Oct. 18, 4 p.m., Food and Fiber Pavilion
Diboll ISD – Friday, Oct. 26, 8:30 and 10 a.m.,
“Christmas in Crockett” – Saturday, Nov. 17, TBA
Senior Men’s Golf Association, Crown Colony (Lufkin) – Friday, Dec. 7,
6:30 p.m.
“Showtime! 2008” – Saturday and Sunday, March 1st-2nd, 6-7:30 p.m.,
Temple Theater
TOPS (Take Pounds Off Sensibly) Convention (Lufkin) – April; dates,
times TBA; Pitser-Garrison Civic Center
