Like a Super Bowl-winning quarterback, Smith-Cotton vocal music director Chris Kindle went to Disney World on Saturday. And he brought a pretty good team with him.
Thanks to talents that impressed the theme park brass, the 102 students in Kindle’s three show choirs earned the opportunity to perform at the Waterside Stage in Downtown Disney, the “huge shopping center” portion of the Orlando, Fla., park.
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