I got back over a week ago from the Central States Choir Tour. It was mostly bus riding from one town to the next. We sang 7 concerts in 13 days. This is Karen Barker and I in a city bus in St. Louis seeing some sights.
There was some pretty amazing scenery. This was taken from my bus seat, who knows where, at sunset.
I got to sing with a group of about 20 at a care center and two other groups sang in two other locations for older folks. It was very special. Our new associate director, Ryan Murphy, is on the far right in this picture.
We stopped at historical sites in Winter Quarters, Nauvoo, Kanesville, and Independence. I thought about our Bingham and Mortensen ancestors who crossed the plains and went through so much for us.
My roomate, Sylvia, and I had a lot of fun together.
The Choir had a photo shoot in St. Louis with their famous arch in the background. We had to stand in the same spot on a grassy hill for about an hour and a half singing the same 2 songs over and over again while the camera crew took pictures and videos. Then from above, a helicopter flew around and took more pictures. We had another photo shoot by the Missouri River.
In fact, camera crews were everywhere we went. They are putting together a 5-part series of a documentary about the tour.
In one of our dressing areas Beth Elmer and I found a couple of massage tables and made good use of them before a concert. It paid off.
In Kanesville I found plaques naming the Mormon Batallion companies and guess who was in Company B? Erastus and his first son, Thomas Bingham.
I visited the Murrah Federal Building site in Oklahoma City that got bombed in 1995. This is the tree of hope that survived in the middle of the memorial.
There is a field of chair-type markers for each of the 168 lost persons. The children lost had smaller chairs.
My favorite concert location was the Red Rocks amphitheatre outside Denver, CO. The scenery was breathtaking.
These seats were filled plus others totalling over 15,000 in the surrounding hills. President Monson made a surprise visit and came to the concert.
We gave each other back rubs on the bus as the end drew near. It was an enjoyable trip but we were glad to be back in Salt Lake City again. For more pictures and news about our tour, go to
http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/.
I got back over a week ago from the Central States Choir Tour. It was mostly bus riding from one town to the next. We sang 7 concerts in 13 days. This is Karen Barker and I in a city bus in St. Louis seeing some sights.
There was some pretty amazing scenery. This was taken from my bus seat, who knows where, at sunset.
My roomate, Sylvia, and I had a lot of fun together.
The Choir had a photo shoot in St. Louis with their famous arch in the background. We had to stand in the same spot on a grassy hill for about an hour and a half singing the same 2 songs over and over again while the camera crew took pictures and videos. Then from above, a helicopter flew around and took more pictures. We had another photo shoot by the Missouri River.
In fact, camera crews were everywhere we went. They are putting together a 5-part series of a documentary about the tour.
In one of our dressing areas Beth Elmer and I found a couple of massage tables and made good use of them before a concert. It paid off.
In Kanesville I found plaques naming the Mormon Batallion companies and guess who was in Company B? Erastus and his first son, Thomas Bingham. 
I visited the Murrah Federal Building site in Oklahoma City that got bombed in 1995. This is the tree of hope that survived in the middle of the memorial.
There is a field of chair-type markers for each of the 168 lost persons. The children lost had smaller chairs.
My favorite concert location was the Red Rocks amphitheatre outside Denver, CO. The scenery was breathtaking.
These seats were filled plus others totalling over 15,000 in the surrounding hills. President Monson made a surprise visit and came to the concert. 
We gave each other back rubs on the bus as the end drew near. It was an enjoyable trip but we were glad to be back in Salt Lake City again. For more pictures and news about our tour, go to http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/.
1 comment:
Jeri, what a great trip! It looks like you had a good time while the choir did alot of good too. I bet you were tired when you got home.
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