April 5, 2007 was PALM SCHOOL CHOIR DAY in Austin, Texas!!

"Most school choir recordings are no more than keepsakes for their parent's archives, stowed away and forgotten
stock arrangements of bored students singing predictable repertoire. Not so with Austin's Palm School Choir.
There's a reason media outlets like NBC's Today Show have beat a path to their door; there's just not much
out there to compare with these young, disciplined, elementary kids belting out their big, broad-shouldered
and ambitious pop creations. Leader Gavin Tabone writes and arranges the clever material, and he clearly
has something other than the usual time-killing elective in mind for his students; he's teaching them music,
real music, purely of their own creation (along with the occasional Flaming Lips cover), and the kids'
excitement on their brand new double CD is both palpable and contagious."
-Jeff McCord, music director at KUT Radio, Austin, TX

Palm School Choir's innovative cover of Flaming Lips, Shins and Wilco tunes was one of the best shows I've
seen at First Night in the three years of its existence. The interactive and choreographed light show
was the perfect spectacle and had an enormous audience singing and dancing along with these talented
performers. Palm School Choir rocked First Night Austin 2008!
-Ginny Sanders, Producer, First Night Austin

Click here to read an article on the choir from the Austin Chronicle.

"The Palm School Choir is one of Austin's best hidden secrets. These kids ROCK."
-The Rich Girls Are Weeping webblog

"Austin's Palm School Choir was matched for joyous enthusiasm only by their idols the
Flaming Lips, to whom they happily presented their CD of Lips covers Sunday afternoon."
- the Austin Chronicle's Christopher Gray on the PSC's 2006 ACL Performance

The grade-school-aged boys and girls - grades third through fifth - that make up the Palm School Choir
may be the youngest artists to play the Austin City Limits music festival, but they certainly aren't the
greenest. Sure, the line-up (ranging from 45 to 50 kids) may change from year to year, but these ACL festival
veterans - who sing original material written by their teacher and choir director Gavin Tabone - have performed
onstage with Lyle Lovett, opened for keynote speaker Neil Young at their first South By Southwest performance,
and been featured twice on NBC's Today Show and NPR. No less impressive they've also sung for charity;
the PSC played a benifit concert for children displaced by Hurricane Katrina.


If you would like to make a donation, please send a check payable to
Palm Elementary School   7601 Dixie Dr. Austin, TX   78744