2009 Summer Concert Pictures

Coles County Chorus Picture From 2008 Christmas Concert

Coles County Chorus At 2008 Contest In Peoria, IL

The Illinois District held their Spring Convention/Contest on April 11th-12th.  
 
Chorus Competition
There were 15 choruses who competed for score on Saturday.  Coles County finished 6th (actually 7th since Northbrook did not have to compete as reigning Champs)  Scores were as follows:  West Towns (78.1), Bloomington (76.5), Lake County (70.8), Champaign (70.1), Belleville (69.3) Coles County (65.2) Springfield (62.8), Rockford Metro (61.8), South Cook (60.6), Sterling-Rock Falls (59.9), Elgin (58.8), Aurora (55.0), Chicago Metro (53.4), DuPage Valley (52.9) and Carbondale (47.3).

The Coles County Chorus (25 on stage) singing in Peoria.  Note the cop...Mike Martin (left).  Tim and Tom Woodall are the barbers working over the face and head of Paul Karraker.  Rich Hansen did a great job as the shoe shine boy (working on Doc Larson’s shoes) and later as the dice throwing “crap” shooter in the song “Shine”.  Two brand new singers were on the risers (back row..3rd from left..Bob Jones) and (back row...5th from left ...Eric Butler) they’ve been members for about six months and now sing in a quartet together.

Over the years, Coles County has competed in 29 chorus contests.  They finished in the top 7 on 14 occasions and were 4th place four times.  In the years 93, 94, 95, and 96, we averaged 43 men on stage.  This Saturday, we had 24, plus one non-singer..