Barton Hills Choir

Sep 07

You’re invited to the Sock Hop Show!

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The Barton Hills Choir invites you to their 2012 Sock Hop Show, Thursday, September 27, in the school cafeteria. 5th and 6th grade choir members will be performing your favorite songs from the 50’s, including hits like:

Yakety Yak
Big Girls Don’t Cry
Donna/Earth Angel
Johnny B. Goode
and more!

The show is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 PM, and refreshments will be provided. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to wear sock hop attire (children must be accompanied by an adult) so mark your calendar, call your family and friends, and get your poodle skirt and saddle shoes ready for a swinging evening with the Barton Hills Choir At the Hop!

Summer Camp show – Tonight You Belong To Me

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Here’s a video of the Barton Hills Choir singing the Patience and Prudence classic Tonight You Belong To Me at the choir summer camp 2012 performance. The choir is made up of 2nd through 6th graders from Barton Hills Elementary School in Austin, TX and is accompanied by Gavin Tabone on keys, Jake Perlman on drums, and Aaron Dembe on bass.

Fun Facts:

Patience and Prudence McIntyre were two sisters who recorded Tonight You Belong To Me at age 14 and 11, respectively. It reached #4 on the Billboard charts in 1956 and sold over a million copies.
The girls reportedly learned the song while at summer camp two years earlier.
Tonight You Belong To Me had originally been a hit for Gene Austin in 1927.

Rockin’ Robin video from Summer Camp show performance

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Here’s a video of the Barton Hills Choir singing Rockin’ Robin at the choir summer camp 2012 performance. The choir is made up of 2nd through 6th graders from Barton Hills Elementary School in Austin, TX and is accompanied by Gavin Tabone on keys, Jake Perlman on drums, and Aaron Dembe on bass.

Fun Facts:

Composed by Jimmie Thomas, Rockin’ Robin was originally a hit for Bobby Day, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, in 1958.
Michael Jackson recorded and released a cover version of Rockin’ Robin in 1972, which was taken from his first solo album titled Got to Be There.

Summer Camp choir show video-Octopus’s Garden

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Here’s a video of the Barton Hills Choir singing The Beatles classic Octopus’s Garden at the choir summer camp 2012 performance. The choir is made up of 2nd through 6th graders from Barton Hills Elementary School in Austin, TX and is accompanied by Gavin Tabone on keys, Jake Perlman on drums, and Aaron Dembe on bass.

Fun Facts:

Octopus’s Garden, from the Beatles’ Abbey Road LP, was composed by drummer Ringo Starr. He was inspired to write it after being told by a boat captain “how octopuses go ’round the sea bed and pick up stones and shiny objects and build gardens.” It was only the second song he had ever written. You can see Ringo and George Harrison working on the song in the movie Let It Be.

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Upcoming Events

October 10, 2026

ACL Music Festival-Weekend 2

Starts: 12:15 pm

Ends: October 10, 2026 - 1:15 pm

Location: Zilker Metropolitan Park, Austin, TX 78746, USA

Description:
Austin Kiddie Limits stage.

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