Anne Elmerick's blog

Artisphere is another favorite Greenville, SC event of VMx. The festival, considered as one of the top art festivals nationwide, celebrated its 20th anniversary May 10-12, with 140 artists, concerts and local restaurants. Over the 3 day period VMx members and our friends and family volunteered hundreds of hours as thousands of visitors flooded our downtown streets.

Vocal Matrix Chorus members love to give back to the communities in Greenville county and around the Upstate. One annual event - Bank of America Fall for Greenville - gives VMx that opportunity. This is the largest free admission food and music festival in the Southeast and was just named #2 in USA Today's Top 10 Best City Food Festivals.  A few days ago VMx was recognized for volunteering an impressive 960 hours during the highly successful 3-day Fall For Greenville event. Vocal Matrix is ready to sign up again for this fall  - 2024!

A small group of Vocal Matrix singers provided the lively post luncheon entertainment on February 15th for a wonderful gathering at the Senior Action Center of Greenville, SC. RipChords Quartet also sang a few  well-known Valentine's love songs and many in the audience joined in. What fun! Thank you to the Senior Action Center for the warm welcome.

Vocal Matrix Chorus competed in the Harmony Classic AA Division at the 75th Sweet  Adelines International Convention in Louisville Kentucky this past October 31st and came home with a 4th place finish.

The storyline (written by the chorus creative team) centers was around Angel, a young shy puppy whose master had left her at this Happy Harmony Pet Resort while she attends a singing competition.  Fifi, Ralph and DC, with the Staff/director and other pets in the resort, help Angel find the confidence to "just be Me".

The 15 minute package included the songs: Running Wild, In the Wee Small Hours, This Joint is Jumping and This is Me.

Thank you to all who supported Vocal Matrix's Cue-the-Music- dinner and musical variety show.  This bi-annual fundraiser was especially exciting for our chorus as it is our first live indoor performance since the pandemic forced us to take a long break.