Jackie is the chorale’s own Nurse Jackie. A nurse practitioner, she provides health advice, flu season updates, and pharmaceuticals to singers as needed. She’s also known to wake up at 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning to bake so she can supply us with brownies and other baked treats at rehearsals. She’s notorious for her outspoken sense of humor and can get the entire chorale belly-laughing with a well-timed quip.
Jackie, an alto, has been a member of the chorale for six years, and although she has a hard time choosing among her favorite pieces we’ve performed, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem stands out. She took voice lessons and performed with a madrigal singers group in college. She says singing with the chorale and learning new and exciting music stimulates her brain. “I love it, it wraps me in happiness,” she adds. She’ll listen to any type of music BUT country western, she says. “The twang gets me.”
While she has made her career in the healthcare field, Jackie says she would also love to raise dogs for a living. “That might be my next career–raising dogs for patient care,” she says. In addition, she loves traveling and says her all-time favorite pastime is making memories with her family.
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