Naomi Barrett

Naomi Rose is a classical pianist and lyric soprano based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. She holds a B.A. in Music from Trinity International University and a M.M. in piano and vocal performance from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS). Since 2009, Naomi has toured nationally and internationally as both an instrumentalist and vocalist.

During her graduate work, she worked with the Southwestern Master Chorale and accompanied violinist Michael Shih for a 10th Anniversary concert for Lifesong Studio. After relocating to Hawai'i (2019-2022), she performed with Lutheran Church Honolulu, Honolulu Vocal Jazz, Early Music Hawaii, and Oahu Choral Society (OCS), including a notable performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. OCS also collaborated with local artist Johnny Valentine at Blue Note Hawaii.

After returning to the DFW area in 2022, Naomi is an active performer and instructor. She serves as the organist for Church of Christ the King in Fort Worth and collaborates with students from middle school to graduate level throughout the metroplex. She is also a member of the Orpheus choir and accompanies the Gold Tone Senior Show Choir, which performs for retirement facilities throughout Fort Worth.

Jean Carmichael

Jean grew up just outside of New York City and studied piano through her college years. She also sang in the glee club and choir in both high school and college. She graduated from Sweet Briar College and later received her Master of Science Degree from Springfield College. After graduaton, she and her then husband moved to Spain for 8 years where both of her sons were born.

Upon returning to the States. Jean began her career with the YMCA, serving as an Executve Director in Charlotesville, VA, Dallas, TX and Los Angeles, CA. She then became CEO of the Santa Maria Valley YMCA and finally retred after 37 years as Vice President of the Fort Worth Associaton. Feeling that she had had enough moving around, Jean decided to call Fort Worth her home. Stll connected to the YMCA, she serves on the Natonal Board of YMCA Alumni.

Jean fills her tme reading, exercising, enjoying the local museums, and lying in the hammock. She has 2 sons and daughters-in-law and 3 grandchildren.

Connie Davenport

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Linda Dorasami

Linda Dorasami, wife to Krishna (Kris), mother to three sons and their beautiful wives, and two dogs. I am Mimi to ELEVEN wonderful grands: EIGHT girls, three boys, & five dogs. We all enjoy cooking & grilling (and/or eating!) so gather frequently for big family meals at our homes, weather permitting on the patios.

Had brain surgery (acoustic neuroma), back surgery, went to school to learn clowning (HA) and love to face paint. Diagnosed with ITP in 2000 and started a local (PDSA) support group a few years later. Then decided I had something to share about acoustic neuromas so have facilitated ANA local support group for several years, as well. Volunteering at Life.Church I have set up the curriculum used in seven classrooms (for about 20 years). With hearing loss I have been active in HLAA for ten years & have learned so much about that world. I joined Gold Tone Senior Show Choir in February 2024- love love love our senior group & singing to seniors.

We have traveled a fair amount and lived overseas. Enjoy the results of a pretty garden so we keep that in check. I am looking forward to Fall and cooler weather. Krishna is from Chennai, India and prefers the hot humid weather which I tolerate in Fort Worth, Texas. Oh yah, I am from Minn-a-soda and prefer cooler weather.

Linda Hines

Linda loves to sing so much that she went online looking for a choir. (Spring 2017) When she found out the Gold Tones entertain for retirement centers, she knew she had found the perfect choir for her. When her mother was in the nursing facility, the musical groups were her most favorite activity. Now, Linda gets to bring music to the retirement community in memory of her Mom.

One of Linda's most influential teachers in high school was her choir teacher. Linda sang in select choirs and ensembles where Mrs. Bryant taught performance skills and demanded choral excellence. She went on to sing in choirs and ensembles in college at Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, Oklahoma. Her father was a pastor, so she grew up singing in church and continued to do so throughout her adult life.

Being the Director of the Heavenly-Son-Light Choir was Linda's most rewarding role in church music. She founded and directed the childrens choir for twenty-three years, leading them in two musicals a year. These were full-scale productions with music, drama, costumes, backdrops, and props. She loved teaching kids the joy of singing for God. Those were the best years of her musical life!

As for her career, Linda worked as a graphic artist for Radio Shack, and Harcourt Brace Textbook Publishers, among others. When she started in her field everything was done by hand. But in 1991 she went to the Art Institute of Dallas to learn computer skills.

Linda's husband, Murray, had a 40-year career at Bell Helicopter in management. They have been married 52 years, have two sons and a daughter (by birth), their spouses, one son (not by birth, but by heart), and eleven grandchildren. They love, Fort Worth, their adopted hometown!

Susan Hoffman

Susan Hoffman became director of Gold Tone Senior Show Choir in the Spring of 2023. A lifetime of music participation is fueling her joy at being a part of this wonderful, joyful, missional group.

She is a graduate of Texas Woman's University with a degree in Music Therapy and Boston University with an M. Div degree. Susan is now a retired United Methodist pastor having settled in Fort Worth in 2005.

Throughout her career in both Music Therapy and ministry she has participated in and led music groups. Presently, she plays handbells in a local church and bass recorder in a recorder chamber group and sings with the Harmony Club of Fort Worth which meets at the Fort Worth Woman's Club.

Bob Krause

Bob was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and got his Electrical Engineering degree from BYU and his MBA from ASU in Arizona. After working for a number of electric power companies, he went out on his own as an independent consultant handling clients throughout the U.S. for 15 years and then developing contracts with USAID and the State Department in foreign countries (Pakistan, Egypt, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan).

Eventually tiring of travel and warzones, Bob retired but stays involved in family businesses (his wife, Barb,owns a travel agency and they own a beauty salon) and spends time with his twin grandkids.

Bob's interest in music started when his grandfather bought him a guitar when he was 10 years old. He moved on from folk music to pop, show tunes, choir music, barbershop, and classical.

Katherine Marlow

Katherine Marlow Bio

Stephen Rookard

Stephen has had a deep voice all his life. As a teenager he would scare many a mother with a voice that sounded well beyond his years when calling for a date. Though he never studied music, he did get a Bachelor of Arts in Radio-TV as he put his outstanding voice to use in college as an announcer & DJ at the campus of UTEP. He worked 28 years with AT&T and its affiliates, including several years doing voice overs on long distances announcements for all of AT&T and using his voice for call answering prompts.

Stephen also developed his speaking skills with Toastmasters for seven years, serving as president three years. His wife was a scholarship winner in Music at Texas Tech. She was a soprano that joined the Goldtones Choir four months before he did. Not sure of his talent for singing, but at her urging, he ventured out into the world of singing. Stephen brings a deep, low bass voice much enjoyed by those that hear him. He seems to be a keeper.

Janice Simon

Janice Simon Bio.

Allen Streaterl

Allen Streater Bio

David Wright

David and his wife, Deborah, settled in Fort Worth from Los Angeles in 1978. Their son, Seth, works as a 9-1-1 call dispatcher for MedStar. David's first born son, Bruce, is a computer animator for Disney.

Encouraged by his mother's piano style and singing as well as her musical parents he learned the art of entertaining at a very young age. In high school his music education continued with choir and Madrigal Membership. In 1997 he joined the Barbershop Harmony Society singing lead, tenor, or bass in competetive Chorus and Quartet events as well as theatrical shows and recitals.