The November 2004 Veteran’s Day Celebration at the Palace Theatre in Frostburg, Maryland was inspiring and heartwarming to the audience and performers alike. The Ladybirds Barbershop Harmony Singers sang such songs as America the Beautiful, This Land Is Your Land, Let There Be Peace on Earth, Battle Hymn of the Republic, and a medley of God Bless America and You’re a Grand Old Flag.
A patriotic show at Constitution Park was very somber as crowds of people came to express their grief over the attack on September 11, 2001 in which thousands of people were killed. Shortly after that tragedy, the Ladybirds performed patriotic songs on a CD called A New America. Everyone was pulling together, praying, singing patriotic songs, and helping the victims and survivors of those who lost their lives in that tragic terrorist attack.
The Ladybirds Barbershop Chorus was one of the featured entertainers at the For God and Country Celebration presented on May 27, 2001 at the Beall High School Auditorium. The show was sponsored by the Frostburg American Legion.
There was a great deal of pomp and circumstance as the presentation of colors took place. Then everyone in the auditorium, which was filled to capacity, said the Pledge of Allegiance. After the invocation and formal candlelight ceremony took place, there was a solo performed by Stanley Skidmore, followed by a bugler who played Taps. Then a presentation by the Ladybirds Barbershop Harmony Singers, under the direction of Shirley Carson, was featured. They sang Battle Hymn of the Republic, A Cohan Medley, and Let There Be Peace On Earth.
One project that the Ladybirds have enjoyed doing for several years running has been traveling to Martinsburg to the Veterans Hospital, where they participate in a Valentine’s Day Celebration coupled with a Maryland Day celebration as well.
The chorus departed from Cumberland fairly early in the morning and had breakfast in Hancock, Maryland. Then they went on to Martinsburg where they sang in a program for the ambulatory patients and then toured the halls of the hospital; they stopped in non-ambulatory patients’ rooms and sang a special song for each patient they visited.
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