The Chelsea Music Boosters held its annual Faculty & Friends talent show fundraiser. If you’ve never been, you’re missing out on a fun evening: this is one of my favorite community events to photograph.
The show opened with synchronized “swimming”…
…and then it moved on to the musical acts.
CHS student Molly Turner sang “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” with accompaniment from her dad Rob Turner, a former Chelsea School Board member and current Washtenaw County Commissioner. His contributions were highly…dignified.
In fact, he was so dignified, he managed to make Molly laugh in the middle of the song.
(No, the North Creek Fiddlers weren’t playing Van Halen’s Jump.)
(Click here to hear the music of John Zainea. Highly recommended if you enjoy Sufjan Stevens.)
You had me at fake synchronized swimming.
[…] Chelsea photographer Burrill Strong’s new collection of shots from a Chelsea Music Boosters’ friends and expertise talent uncover includes a name that will be informed to readers who lane The Chronicle’s coverage of a Washtenaw County house of commissioners: Rob Turner. He seemed on theatre concomitant his daughter, Molly, who achieved a song, The Lion Sleeps Tonight. As Strong’s print illustrates, Turner entirely embraced a purpose of a lion. [Source] […]