Hills Are Alive! Director

Being the Director of Hills Are Alive! Chorus really fits the bill for Dondra. She loves music, clothes, shoes, make-up and jewelry. Just the ticket for being a member of Sweet Adelines and especially, the Director. She has been a Sweet Adeline since 1984, when a member of the (then) Highlands Harmony Chorus invited her to a rehearsal.

Dondra is an animal lover, enjoys 50’s and 60’s style music, and enjoys anything outdoors, especially riding her motorcycle!

Dondra is also the baritone for The Entertainment Company quartet. One of her best memories of singing with the quartet is when they performed at the Bristol Motor Speedway for the Bush 500.

Dondra takes her job as Director very seriously and works diligently to ensure that each chorus member knows what is expected of her, knows her music and choreography, and has bunches of fun at the same time!!

Assistant Director Jane McKamey

Jane was born in Bristol, VA and began her love of music by taking piano lessons from age five through twelve. She then switched to the clarinet and spent the rest of her high school and college career playing the clarinet in the high school and Mary Washington College bands. For a couple of years she also played tenor sax in the college All Girl Dance Band. During this time she sang in her church choir but never thought of singing in a chorus.

In 1978 a friend introduced her to Sweet Adelines and she was hooked. She was a member of the Mountain empire Chorus where she sang lead, tenor and bass. She became Director in 1997 and continued that role until the Mountain Empire Chorus and Highlands Harmony Chorus merged to become Hills Are Alive! Chorus. Jane is now happily on the risers, singing bass until called upon to step in as Assistant Director!