Pleasant Hope natives JC Fisher and Carla Wooton are brother and sister. He claims she was always the musical one in the family, while playing ball was his thing. But they both now enjoy thriving musical careers: Wooton is the Assistant Director of the Springfield Youth Symphony, an audition-only orchestra of 65 young musicians sponsored by Springfield Public Schools. Fisher is founder of the group “The Texas Tenors,” who achieved national fame on NBC-TV’s America’s Got Talent and used that as a springboard to an international performing career, including being named the Number Ten Classical Artists in the World by Billboard Magazine. Fisher and his partners John Hagen and Marcus Collins will perform with the Springfield Youth Symphony as a fundraiser for the orchestra Saturday afternoon May 13 at 3:00pm at the Gillioz Theatre, 325 Park Central East. Says JC Fisher, “I went to what was SMSU at the time from 1992-95, and I worked at the Boys and Girls Club on Boonville. And I was really
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