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Holiday motorcade brings season's travelers
By JOY DAVIS-PLATT BROOKSVILLE -- A Brooksville Music Club tradition that combines music, friends and homes continues Sunday with the 44th annual Christmas Musicade. Club member Jane Bussell is helping to organize the event, where audiences move in a motorcade from one house to another, enjoying musical performances at each stop. "We really are happy about the popularity of the musicade," Bussell said. "It really is different from anything else Brooksville -- or anywhere else for that matter -- has to offer." The event is so different, in fact, that the 150 tickets available were sold out last week, Bussell said. One of the featured performances this year will be given by the internationally acclaimed girls' choir, La Petite Choeur. The choir, for girls ages 13 to 18, will perform at one of the stops on the musical holiday tour. Founded in 1994, the group is a division of Gulf Coast Youth Choirs of Tampa, a non-profit community arts organization. Members must audition each year for the elite group. Among other honors, the ensemble has won the outstanding choral performance award at the Heritage Music Festival in Chicago and has sung at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and Carnegie Hall in New York City. The group's program will include a patriotic segment featuring Irving Berlin's God Bless America and the Michael Braz arrangement of America the Beautiful. The choir will also perform seasonal works. Other performers for this year's musicade will include Jan Jennings, a prominent harpist from Tampa. A past winner of the top prize at the Lyon & Healy International Pop & Jazz Harp Competition, Jennings has performed throughout the United States and Europe. "She is as beautiful to listen to as she is to watch," said Bussell. "It is just a delight." Brooksville bass-baritone Dan Boyer will be the first performer in Sunday's lineup. For the past six years, he has been the minister of music at Brooksville Wesleyan Church. His program will include seasonal songs, including Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Sweet Lil' Jesus Boy. "He has a marvelous, mellow deep voice," Bussell said. "We're very pleased to have him." The musicade is the club's largest fundraiser of the year and benefits the group's scholarship fund. Promising musicians at area high schools are assisted through the program. Three separate motorcades, each with 50 people, will leave from Hogan's Drugs at Hernando Plaza, 651 S Broad St., Brooksville, at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Hall in New York City.Other performers for this year's musicade will include Jan Jennings, a prominent harpist from Tampa. A past winner of the top prize at the Lyon & Healy International Pop & Jazz Harp Competition, Jennings has performed throughout the United States and Europe "She is as beautiful to listen to as she is to watch," said Bussell. "It is just a delight." Brooksville bass-baritone Dan Boyer will be the first performer in Sunday's lineup. For the past six years, he has been the minister of music at Brooksville Wesleyan Church. His program will include seasonal songs, including Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Sweet Lil' Jesus Boy. "He has a marvelous, mellow deep voice," Bussell said. "We're very pleased to have him." The musicade is the club's largest fundraiser of the year and benefits the group's scholarship fund. Promising musicians at area high schools are assisted through the program. Three separate motorcades, each with 50 people, will leave from Hogan's Drugs at Hernando Plaza, 651 S Broad St., Brooksville, at 1, 2 and 3 p.m.
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