For final concert, Albion elementary chorus teacher picks cowboy classics

By Tom Rivers, Editor Posted 20 May 2015 at 12:00 am

Photos by Tom Rivers

ALBION – Linda Logan, a music teacher in Albion for 34 years, directed her final concert this evening, leading 117 students in the third and fourth grade chorus.

Logan and many of her students wore western and cowboy outfits. The sang folk song and cowboy medleys, including “Shoo Fly,” “Old Dan Tucker,” “Home on the Range,” “Git Along Little Doggies,” Grandma’s Feather Bed” and others.

“These are songs every kid should know,” she said before the concert.

Logan said she tried to pick fun songs throughout the year. She thanked her students and their parents, many of whom she taught a generation ago.