2009 July 18 Meeting

Chapter Meeting Saturday, July 18, 2009

Sharon Steele-Smith will present a Colonial-era music program at the July Meeting.

Another interesting program is planned for the July 18, 2009 Piedmont Chapter meeting when Sharon Steele-Smith will present a program of Colonial-era music. Mrs. Steele-Smith will give a short history of each song or composer before singing. The program consists of Colonial-era works of Billings, Ingalls, and Hopkinson, and others.

Sharon Steele-Smith studied vocal performance with Robin Ferguson, Mary Root, Sandra Lutters, and Don Brainerd, all of Atlanta. She has been actively involved in Atlanta’s choral community since 1978. She has appeared with the Atlanta Lyric Theatre in Carousel (as the June Girl), in Mame, Hello, Dolly! and H.M.S. Pinafore, and also in Gilbert & Sullivan’s operettas Mikado and Iolanthe when the Lyric was known as the Southeastern Savoyards Light Opera Company. She is a member of the Sandy Springs Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, and is the current President of the Alfred Holt Colquitt Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She and her husband Robb Smith, also a professional musician, reside in Roswell and are both employed at Carere Music in Doraville.