Mississippi Federation of Music Clubs
Great Happenings at
Our National Conference
Welcome to Bettendorf, Iowa where the 2024 NFMC Conference was held by the Mighty Mississippi!
The week began with a wonderful dinner cruise down the Mississippi where we were able to meet and greet the other delegates.
The next day at the conference, I visited the exhibit room, and much to my surprise, there were all six of our yearbooks from Mississippi on display. Thanks goes to our dedicated Senior Club Presidents who sent them to the National Chairman. South Carolina was the only state who had more than we did.
Mississippi had three representatives at the Conference. ( myself, Debbie Barnes and Neil Barnes). The tables at this dinner were decorated in the center with Iowa memorabilia. They also had copies of various poems that had been sent in to National randomly placed on the tables for all to read. Guess which one was right in front of the Mississippi delegation. ( The poem by Sharlee Shumpert who was the Poetry winner last year from Tupelo)
As piano teachers, Debbie Barnes and I were thrilled to get to meet Melody Bober, the composer of so many wonderful piano pieces.
Ms Bober teaches a lot of group lessons and she shared many of her ideas and materials:
She occasionally invites a famous composer to come. In this case, we were visited by the hilarious composer Mozart ,who later turned out to be none other than Dr.Jason Sifford ,the modern day composer of many of our festival piano pieces.
It was a pleasure to meet the composer, Dr. Helen Marlais. She demonstrated many of her festival pieces that will be in the new bulletin.
We had a very entertaining presentation by Audrey Johnson. She used her beautiful soprano voice and creative costume changes to take us on a musical journey called “Lest We Forget: Voices of American Women Yesterday and Today”
Welcome!
President's Message
Welcome, I am so honored to be the 57th President of the Mississippi Federation of Music Clubs (MFMC). We are affiliated with the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC). This year marks their 125th Anniversary as the largest non-profit organization in America, promoting and supporting American music, performers and music education.
We welcome any Mississippian who is a music lover or a music professional to our organization. If you are interested in supporting the arts and encouraging young musicians in our state this is where you belong.
Please contact me for membership information or a local club near you.
Debbie Bullock
MFMC President
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State President's Theme
"Music is what feelings sound like"
