B101's 2024 K-8 Christmas Choir Competition Champions Carl Sandburg Middle School Performs at B101
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00:00Who are the future music stars in the Delaware Valley?
00:03It's V101's Christmas Choir Competition.
00:06More live music for you guys this morning. We are so
00:11proud to have in studio right now the winners of our kindergarten through
00:15eighth grade division of our Christmas Choir Competition which
00:18was brought to you this year by Hatfield.
00:21Carl Sandburg Middle School from Levittown. They drove all the way here
00:25this morning. I know it's early. Thank you for coming in
00:28and they are going to sing for you their beautiful version of their winning
00:31song Carol of the Bells. Yes but let's first
00:34speak with choir director Eddie Tamanini. Eddie come on over.
00:38A lot of prizes here with the Christmas Choir Competition
00:42Championship trophy. One of those a big five thousand dollars for your school's
00:46music program. You told us when we broke the news to
00:48you that you won on air what you were going to do with that money.
00:51How about it? An update? Yeah I mean we're looking to get some risers. That'd
00:54be good. Our the kids know our risers right now are a
00:56little bit of a safety issue. Yeah we would like to get some risers
01:00but yeah just to have that as a part of our
01:02booster program and to you know boost what we're building here is really
01:05awesome. That is amazing. Now when we talked to you a couple weeks
01:08ago and I said describe this choir. Do you
01:11remember what you said? They're a bunch of goofballs.
01:13They are. They really are and like their energy you know every day on a
01:17day-to-day basis is amazing and this is they're the reason like I do this right
01:20like it's all for them. It's the reason why any music teacher
01:23should want to do their job and I'm just very
01:25proud to be their director. Yeah well let's talk to a couple goofballs shall
01:28we? Okay Hannah where are you? Hannah come
01:31on over. You are in eighth grade. If you don't mind me asking what does
01:35it mean to you to be in this particular choir? Why do you love it so much?
01:39It's so cool because we all have formed a kind of family here and we all are
01:43like close with each other and it's really special to have that connection
01:47with everyone. Well you can tell you guys look like
01:49you're all BFFs. That's right. Where's Nate and Kyle? Come on over
01:54guys. Also eighth grade. Well let's see. Kyle
01:57you're in seventh grade. I mistakenly thought he was in 10th
02:00grade. All right so we mentioned the five thousand dollars
02:03for your school's music program. Also Sunday
02:07you guys are going to perform live at the TSO show right?
02:10The Wells Fargo Center. How excited? Each of you how are you?
02:14I can't wait. It's gonna be a real fun time especially with this group of kids
02:17that we all like Hannah said we all really do get
02:20along. I'm excited because it's like the first
02:23concert I actually went to and as Hannah and Kyle said we're all just
02:27like a big family now. That's awesome. Well you're gonna do fantastic
02:31and you're gonna perform live for us. We're excited.
02:34Okay well we're gonna do it right now so if you all want to get ready.
02:38Again this is Carl Sandburg Middle School from Levittown. The winners of
02:42our kindergarten through eighth grade division of our choir
02:45Christmas choir competition and they're gonna sing for you their winning song
02:48right now Carol of the Bells.
02:52Beautiful. Thank you so much Carl Sandburg Middle School
02:56from Levittown. That was gorgeous. Now you guys were just singing so I know
03:01you didn't actually hear yourself on the radio but have you
03:04have you heard us play your song? Yeah I actually would play it
03:08while we were doing the voting and we would play it throughout the day
03:11so it's it's really cool. Was it cool? Was it cool to hear yourselves on the
03:14radio? Yes. Well thanks again. We wish you all a
03:18Merry Christmas. We appreciate you entering and of course winning. We'll see
03:22you on Sunday at the Wells Fargo Center. I know a lot
03:26of people are listening your friends and your family. Do you have
03:29anything you want to say to everyone on the radio?