Janice Mitchell's church musical life after Auburn University has included Baptist, Presbyterian, Unitarian, Episcopal, Catholic, Christian, and DOC faiths in Tennessee, Alabama, and Illinois.  She served at FCC in Rockwood for three years prior to relocating in Illinois and has recently returned to Tennessee and resumed her position as choir director, adding organist to her title in 2011.  Prior to Rockwood, she was adult and youth choir director at FCC in Oak Ridge as well as band/choral/general music teacher at St. Mary's and Willow Brook.  For the past 36 years, Janice has been giving private music lessons and is currently offering piano, voice, and brass instrument instruction in Lenoir City and Rockwood, is the music teacher at Montessori Internationale in Knoxville and plays French horn in the Maryville and Oak Ridge Symphony, Babahatchie and Oak Ridge Concert Band/Wind Ensemble.  Her musical philosophy is "All God's children have a place in the choir."  Bring your "musical offering" to the workshop, whether you sing high or low or somewhere in the middle.  There will be a chair waiting for you.

Fred Pogue - Accompanist

Fred is a native of East Tennessee, and has been a church musician for most of his life. He began accompanying congregational hymns for Sunday school assembly when he was in the seventh grade.  As an adult he served as pianist at Southwest Baptist Church in Kingston for 12 years and completed a 20 year tenure as organist at First Christian Church (D. O. C.) in Rockwood in October. Fred has also played keyboards for several Southern Gospel vocal groups. He recently accepted a position at Community Church of Tellico Village as organist/accompanist. There he serves three vocal ensembles and the Chancel Choir, as well as providing general service music. The church website is at www.tellicochurch.com. He has completed fourteen semesters of organ study and holds the service playing certificate, awarded by the American Guild of Organists.