WHAT A WONDERFUL AFTERNOON EVERYONE HAD ON DECEMBER 16TH.

DECEMBER 16TH. AT THE HANK SNOW HOME TOWN MUSEUM WAS ALIVE WITH GREAT MUSIC, GREAT FOOD, FANTASTIC SERVICE FROM THE KEY CLUB, A GREAT SILENT AUCTION, LOTS OF CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS AND WONDERFUL MINGLING WITH OLD & NEW FRIENDS.

DALE SEWER SET UP THE SOUND, PLAYED BACK UP GUITAR OR BASS & SANG HARMONY.  DALE IS OFTEN FORGOTTEN WHEN THANKS ARE GIVEN BUT HE HAS BEEN THE BACKBONE OF OUR SOUND AT OUR MANY SHOWS EITHER AT THE MUSEUM OR OVER AT THE GAZEBO OR WHEREVER WE NEED MUSIC.

RON MUISE BEGAN THE AFTERNOON AND AS USUAL WAS A HIT WITH THE CROWD.  HE WOULD JOIN HIS FRIEND JACKIE SPIDLE WHO PLAYED THE BASS ACCOMPANYING OTHERS WHO SANG DURING THE AFTERNOON.  RON HELPS OUT WITH HIS MUSIC WHENEVER WE CALL HIM.

MELINDA NAUGLER AS USUAL WAS VIBRANT AND A CROWD PLEASER.  SHE WAS HOME FROM ALBERTA FOR THE HOLIDAYS AND IT WAS GREAT TO HAVE HER SINGING HER ORIGINALS AND OLD CLASSICS AS WELL.

TYLER SALSMAN CAME UP AND THIS TEENAGER GAVE THE AUDIENCE A TASTE OF HIS TALENT AND THE SONGS WERE ENJOYED BY ALL.

JOYCE SEAMONE WAS CONSCRIPTED OUT OF THE AUDIENCE TO HELP OUT AND WITHOUT HESITATION WAS ABLE TO DO A GREAT SET OF SONGS WITH ENTHUSIASM TO THE DELIGHT OF ALL THOSE ATTENDING.  JOYCE  HAS NEVER MISSED A HANK SNOW TRIBUTE AND WE HAVE BEEN SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE HER FOR THESE PAST 31 TRIBUTES.  SHE IS A NS COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAMER.

LUCAS WHITEHEAD WHO  HAS BEEN SINGING FOR OUR AUDIENCES SINCE HE WAS ABOUT 7, IS THE OTHER TEENAGER WHO BROUGHT HIS VIBRANT AND STRONG VOCALS TO ROUND OUT THE AFTERNOONS MUSIC.

DALE VERGE, NOVA SCOTIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAMER, PROVIDED THE AUDIENCE WITH HIS GREAT VOICE AND IT WAS GREAT TO SEE HIM HELP OUT THE FRIENDS OF HANK SNOW SOCIETY ON STAGE AGAIN AS HE HAS DONE FOR MANY YEARS.  DALE HAS ALSO BEEN THERE FOR ALL BUT TWO OF THE TRIBUTES AND WE APPRECIATE HIS GIVING OF HIS TALENTS.

CATHY TRUELOVE AND VINA MOSES HELPED OUT THE SINGERS WITH HARMONIES AND JOINING IN ROUNDING OUT THE WONDERFUL MUSIC OF THE AFTERNOON.  THEY ALONG WITH DALE HAD DECORATED WITH THE HELP OF ZOE MUNROE AND CO-OP STUDENT HAYDEN HORTON WHOSE IDEA ABOUT A SILENT AUCTION NETTED A NEAT PROFIT.  THE DONATED PICTURES WERE DRAWN AFTER TICKET SALES DURING THE SUMMER AND AT THIS EVENT AND SHAKISHA DOWNEY FROM TANTALLON WON THE BEAUTIFUL PICTURE DONATED BY LIVERPOOL HOME HARDWARE AND A BEAUTIFUL DONATED FLOWER PICTURE.  SHAKISHA WAS VERY EXCITED TO RECEIVE HER PICTURES.

MICHELLE COLP, LOUISE CROWELL, DEBBIE FISKE, RAYMOND FISKE, PETER COLP, BERNADETTE HARTLEN, VERNON OICKLE WERE AMONG THOSE WHO MADE SURE EVERYTHING WENT OFF WITHOUT A HITCH.

THE KEY CLUB MEMBERS AND AAHYUN LEE AND HAYDEN HORTON WERE SUCH A HELP AND SO APPRECIATED BY THOSE WHO WERE BEING SERVED.  THANK YOU TO KEY CLUB MEMBERS,  HAYDEN HORTON, DYLAN BURKE, PETINA LEWIS, LIAM MCKINNON AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AAHYUN LEE.  EVERYONE WHO WAS THERE SAID THEY WERE SO IMPRESSED WITH THE KEY CLUB SERVICE AND THANKED THEM IMMENSELY.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED EITHER AS THE AUDIENCE, PROVIDING THE MUSIC, PROVIDING FOOD FOR THE EVENT OR THOSE WHO HELP ALL YEAR INCLUDING THE DEDICATED GROUP OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS.   THANK YOU ALL !!!!!