Kicker: Christmas tree hits a high note

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Up in Muskegon, Michigan is a musical spectacle: …the Mona Shores Singing Christmas Tree.

Here’s choir director Shawn Lawton:

SHAWN LAWTON: The tree stands 67 feet tall. It holds approximately 220 students, and also there is a orchestra of high school students.

Picture a towering steel tree decorated not with ornaments, but with teenagers and 25,000 LEDs. Freshman near the bottom, upperclassmen above them. And the top adorned with a tree angel, a person who’s not much a singer, but full of heart.

You gotta see it to believe! Evidently it’s America’s tallest singing Christmas tree!

LAWTON: We claimed that title and no one has fought that title. No one has said no, we’re the tallest.

Lawton’s been the director for 32 years of its four-decade run.

LAWTON: Being a part of that has been such a reward and I am really going to miss that. Announcer: Mr. Shawn Lawton. [Cheering]

Sounds like they’re going to really miss him.

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