Tonic Sol-fa to perform at Choir concert Thursday
650 Fergus Falls Middle School and High School singers will be joined by the A Cappella group Tonic Solfa on Thursday, March 8th at 7:00 p.m. in the Kennedy Secondary School Gold Gym. The collaboration is made possible through the Minnesota State Arts Board Learning Grant. The group will come and work with the choirs during the day Thursday and then come together for a concert that evening.
The eight school choirs will perform from approximately 7:00-8:00 pm and Tonic Solfa will take the stage from 8:00-9:00. The Fergus Falls High School Chamber Singers will be joining Tonic Sol-fa on one of their songs. The choirs are under the direction of Michelle Danielson and Janel Trosvig and accompanied by Joyce Perez and Kaele Rogers.
The concert is free of charge and the doors will open at 6:00.
About Tonic Sol-fa
Although they are simply four voices and a tambourine, Tonic Sol-fa has spent the past decade on the road carving their niche as the nation's top vocal group. In that time, this quartet has been named one of the top five "must see" groups in America, has been awarded numerous original song and album awards in pop, gospel and holiday genres, appeared on NBC's Today Show and in the pages of Newsweek magazine. Outings with Jay Leno, Shawn Colvin, Lonestar and Garrison Keillor have propelled album sales to more than 1,000,000 copies (mostly sold from the back of their trailer!) and have earned the group thousands of intensely loyal fans.
By 2000, the quartet was voted into the Midwest Music Hall of Fame. In 2002, Tonic Sol-fa averaged over 150 shows annually in 48 states. 2005 brought the group's music to radio stations and retail stores nationwide. And in 2006, Tonic Sol-fa's first public television Christmas special was broadcast to over 1,800 stations across the United States, with an international launch to begin this year.
The New York Times describes Tonic Sol-fa's sound as "A vocal kaleidoscope...unique to the human voice." Improvisational and passionate music combined with cutting-edge stage presence is the benchmark by which critics and fans agree: nobody does it like Tonic Sol-fa.
