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Biography
Mr.
Feely grew
up in Portland and holds BM and MA degrees in music education from Lewis
& Clark College in Portland. He also has an elementary
classroom certificate from Western Oregon State University. After
college he toured across the country for two years as a music
director for the Miss Teen America pageants, arranging and conducting
music for pageants
in 7 western states as well
as Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. A frequent
recitalist, he has performed for regional and national conventions of
the American Guild of Organists, The Organ
Historical Society and The American Theatre Organ Society
and in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago.
He was a featured organist at the Organ Grinder Restaurant
in Portland for over 10 years, performing there on the mighty
Wurlitzer. He has three recordings to his credit, including popular and
sacred music and is the Director of Music at St. Andrews Church
in Southwest Portland. Don has taught in the Lake Oswego, North
Clackamas and Oregon City School Districts, but he likes the Canby
School District the best. He likes it so much that he moved to
Canby with his wife, Heidi, so their four children could attend Canby
schools.
In addition to music, he has always been involved in drama. While
in high school he interned with The Production Company
in
Portland, where he got to perform and work backstage at the Pine
Street
Theater and The Eastside Performance Center.
He enjoys directing the Ackerman Theater productions and also
coordinates
the summer plays for Canby
Community Theater.
While he enjoys teaching, there are some days when he wishes he had
gone into horticulture or veterinary medicine. But to help
maintain a positive attitude he always remembers this saying:
"Never
try to teach a pig to sing;
It wastes your time and annoys the pig!"
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