BROWNTOWN - Each year the Browntown Festival provides a venue for local talent and this year "The Kimble Sisters" will be featured. Valorie, Shelley and Leslie have been performing Andrews Sisters' songs since 2004, and they really are sisters. They grew up in a household where singing and music were an important part of their lives.
They got their start unexpectedly when "The Rehabilitation Center" in Woodstock, Ill., a non-profit organization where one of the sisters worked at the time, put a memo out that they needed three women to volunteer to lip-sync to The Andrews Sisters for a USO Style Fundraiser they were putting on. Valorie, who was employed there, volunteered the three of them to actually sing the songs themselves, and from there they were encouraged to perform professionally.
They made a compact disc for their parents as a gift for Christmas 2005; sent CD's out to local band leaders and radio personalities and were contacted by and orchestra and DJ. They have performed at anniversaries, "The Windhover Center for the Arts" in Fond du Lac, the 2005 National Ballroom Entertainers Association Convention, and have had several radio interviews. They have also performed for a group of World War II Veterans at the Maritime Museum in Manitowoc.
The Kimble Sisters will be performing at 1:30 p.m. at the Browntown Festival on June 28 and in case of inclement weather will be performing in the Civic Center. They will have recordings available for sale at the event.
They got their start unexpectedly when "The Rehabilitation Center" in Woodstock, Ill., a non-profit organization where one of the sisters worked at the time, put a memo out that they needed three women to volunteer to lip-sync to The Andrews Sisters for a USO Style Fundraiser they were putting on. Valorie, who was employed there, volunteered the three of them to actually sing the songs themselves, and from there they were encouraged to perform professionally.
They made a compact disc for their parents as a gift for Christmas 2005; sent CD's out to local band leaders and radio personalities and were contacted by and orchestra and DJ. They have performed at anniversaries, "The Windhover Center for the Arts" in Fond du Lac, the 2005 National Ballroom Entertainers Association Convention, and have had several radio interviews. They have also performed for a group of World War II Veterans at the Maritime Museum in Manitowoc.
The Kimble Sisters will be performing at 1:30 p.m. at the Browntown Festival on June 28 and in case of inclement weather will be performing in the Civic Center. They will have recordings available for sale at the event.
