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And I've got a guest, actually two guests joining me in the studio
from the Singing Legioneers. We have Bruce and we have Bill. We're excited
to have you guys in the studio. How you doing. We're doing great,
well, just awesome. We're excited to have you in here. I
get to see you perform so many times, and it's been really fun to
visit here for the last fifteen to twenty minutes because I get to talk to
you rather than here he sing, which is it's fun to hear you sing,
but it's great to hear the passion while we're talking. And we'll start
over here. Let's talk about how long have you been a member of the
Singing Legioneers. I joined in two thousand and six, so what's that a
little bit eighteen years already? Yeah, I've been there for a while in
Bill, how about you, Holung. I came right right when we broke
out of COVID and take our masks off about four years ago. And overall,
how many members are there currently? And I suppose that kind of ebbs
and flows, but what is a pretty general number? Twenty eight or twenty
nine, very nice, and there's room for more, which is one of
the reasons we're having this discussion today. Yes, and thank you, thank
you for doing this. We excited to do this. We are looking to
recruit singers and we're looking for another fifteen or twenty singers. Now, everything
I know about the singing legionnaires was wrong because I thought I have to be
a veteran, I have to be an legion member, I have to be
none of those things. So if I'm a singer and I'm a patriot,
and I watch what you do and say that looks amazing, I'd like to
be a part of that, chances are there might be a place for me.
Exactly. And if you have sung for a men's course before, you
will understand that singing in a men's course is a little different. Yeah,
and it's a little bit different sound. So absolutely, And it's a come
as you are on Monday night. We practice it at seven o'clock every Monday
night at the Alliance, the Armory at the Alliance, it's just west of
the Alliance. Come and sing with us, and sing with us for three
weeks and we make a decision and you make a decision as to whether or
not you want to continue. Very nice, and Bill, what part like
when you're singing, because there's you know, there's the tenor and the base.
What are the different parts even I don't even know the names of the
Well, we've got bass and baritones and first and second tenors, and Bruce
and I are in the first tenor section first tenors. Okay, right,
it's four part in part. Are there certain parts that you're looking for,
Like, hey, we really have a need for this, you kind of
just whichever we need. We need people in all four parts in all four
okay, very nice. We've recently recruited another two or three or four bases
and a couple more bar tones, but bar tones and second tenors are probably
the hardest spots to fill. Okay, very nice, And so like the
ideal candidate, would that be somebody who maybe like sang in the choir at
church, or they sang when they were in school, or is it even
somebody that I've never sang in anything, but I love to sing. If
you've had some background in music, it's actually a little bit better. But
if you haven't had any background, come and see if you like it.
Yeah, we have people that don't read music that sing with us, So
it's not it's not anything that you can't learn. Nice, very nice.
And again, if somebody would like to join, you don't need to be
a veteran, You don't need to be a Legion member. You need to
basically have a passion for this and be a patriot and say I want to
come out and let's talk. We'll visit with Bill. Let's talk about some
of the cool things you guys get to do. I see you at events
all the time. But for people who maybe didn't know that's who that group
was, it was singing. What are some of the things you guys do
throughout the year. For example, I think it's been about a year and
a half or so ago it was the I think it was the one hundredth
anniversary of the courthouse downtown. We go down there and we sang a couple
of well we're saying the Star Spangled banner and a couple of other numbers down
there right in the court outside in the court area. We do that as
a community service. We also sang at the grand opening or the ribbon cutting
of the State Veteran Cemetery just north of town here. That's kind of an
example of the types of things we do. We also go to retirement homes
as a community service and we get around those quite often, very nice.
And one of the other things I talked with Bruce a little bit about you
guys, also has nothing to do with the singing, but it helps pay
for the singing. You place the flags around Sioux Falls, and you said
there's like six hundred of those. Yeah, it's called the Avenue of Flags,
and eight times a year, weather permitting, we put flags out through
the city of Sioux Falls. There's a charge for that. I think right
now it's thirty six dollars per flag per year and we'll put that flag out
eight times. That's amazing and it's well supported. So financially, there's no
obligation for anybody that sings with us. You don't need any money. You
have to find your own way to practice. Very nice. And also add
Bruce, that we provide a tuxedo type uniform on loan permanently if you're going
to be a permanent member, and polo shirt so that we all have more
or less a uniform when we sing together, a consistent look. Well,
very good. Thank you guys so much for coming in to visit. And
we're going to remind people if they would like to join, if they'd like
to be a singing Legionnaire, to show up on Monday seven pm. They
can go this Monday, they go next Monday, and go every Monday,
because you guys sing each Monday. And it's at the Alliance building is sixteen
hundred. The building they're in is seventeen hundred West Russell. They refer to
that as the Armory, but that's the building that has the American Legion of
the VFW and many other groups in there. And do they just go right
to the front door or the back door or either way the door on the
north side and we're right to the left when you walk in. Very very
nice. And again that's Monday night, seven pm, the Singing Legionnaires.
Bruce Bill, thank you so much. For coming in. Thanks Joe,
thank you, and again if you would like to know more, I'm going
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