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On Thursday September 24, Southern Gateway hosted a guest night and had eighteen guys show up to learn more about the chorus and make some great music with us. The evening mostly followed the routine of a typical rehearsal, starting with a warmup, singing through a few songs, and then getting into some detail work on individual songs to help each of us become better singers. A few times throughout the evening, members of the chorus led the group in learning a few "tags," which are the last few measures of a song that are relatively easy to learn and allow singers to ring some chords. After learning a couple tags as a group, eight quartets of guys took the 5-10 minutes during one of our breaks to learn a tag and sang it in front of the group.

Members of the Southern Gateway Chorus performed the national anthem at Day Air Ballpark to kick off the Dayton Dragons' game against the Great Lakes Loons on Wednesday August 5. While the chorus sang well, it was not enough to prevent the Dragons from losing 13-5 to the first place Loons.

On Saturday March 21, the Southern Gateway Chorus participated in the Free Throws for Kids annual fund-raising event at Lakota West High School for the fifth year in a row, both to sing the National Anthem and to be two of the top fundraising teams for the event. With thirty members in attendance, we may not have made the most free throws, but we definitely had a lot of fun hanging out at this event and helping support patients at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and their families.