00:00It is our wonderful Christmas choir competition. We are having out tonight, having a great time
00:04tonight. A little cold, but now I feel a little bit warmer because we've been watching some of
00:08these amazing choirs perform here at the Kimmel Center. And we could not do what we do here with
00:13this lovely Christmas choir competition without our sponsors. And I'm here with one of them right
00:17now. This is Dom from Verizon. How are you? Good. I'm doing great. How are you? I'm doing fantastic.
00:21What does the Christmas choir competition mean to you? And why does Verizon want to participate in
00:25this? So Verizon takes great satisfaction in knowing that we are going beyond the storefronts
00:31and that we're doing everything that we can for our communities and actually giving back to people
00:34that we can. That's fantastic. And is there any kind of personal connection that you have or anyone in
00:38the organization has towards choir? Yes. So for me specifically, I was a choir major. I majored in
00:44vocal performing arts. So this is full circle for me to actually do this with my employer and then
00:50actually to give back to the community here as well too. So I'm excited to be here and I'm so happy
00:53to be able to be here. And I can then ask you just to belt out in tune right now or no?
00:58You're like, don't do that to me. Nope. Don't do that to me. Maybe next time. All right. Maybe
01:03next time. Well, we can't thank you enough for being a part of this and we really do appreciate
01:06it. So, and I'm going to work my way down the line because I know Khalil's over there. I know
01:09I got to talk to Khalil down here. Khalil, the choir director. Yes. Not awkward at all. Just
01:16fitting me in here. So what does this mean to you guys, the $5,000 from B101 and Verizon for the
01:21choir competition? It just means so much. It's more about, well, it's about the money. Yes.
01:27But it's also about the community coming together has been just tremendous. And the prize money is
01:31just kind of like a validation of the relationship that we have with our community and the support
01:37that we've received from them. And how long have you been doing this as the choir director?
01:40I've been doing it, I said 30 years on the air the other day, but it's actually 31. 31.
01:45We won't punish you for being off by one year at all. Well, congratulations and congratulations
01:50to you guys. And you guys love working and doing this, right? This is great. Yes, absolutely.
01:54All right. You guys sounded amazing. Thank you so much, sir. Well, thank you for being here. Oh,
01:59I haven't got sir. I like that. That was, that was very nice. Very nice. These are very good kids.
02:04Very good kids. And you guys did a great job also when we announced that you won. That
02:07will always, always gets me every time. So I love that so much. So thank you guys so much. Oh,
02:12and we have someone else from the school, correct? I'm the assistant principal. Oh my goodness. I'm
02:16my best behavior. Got to be my best behavior. Well, thank you again. What does this mean to you
02:20guys for the school and being part of this? It means a lot, especially because our students work
02:24so hard and their dedication, it just showed, it shined through in this performance and in this
02:29opportunity. So we're just really excited to see all their hard work pay off. That's great. Well,
02:33thank you guys. Congratulations again. I'm going to go right over here because we have Matt too from
02:37Philly Pops. We got to talk to Matt again. Matt, give us just your, you know, feeling about how you feel
02:42on a night like this, watching all these kids perform and come together. It's just incredible
02:47to hear out how talented they are, right? To be able to enjoy the season together. We're just so
02:53thankful to have them and to have B101. And Busby will not talk, but I will ask Busby a question.
02:58Busby, are you having a great time tonight? That's the best thing right there. Thank you guys so much
03:03from the bottom of our hearts to yours. What a great time in the holiday season and congratulations
03:07again. Thank you guys for everything you do.
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