{"id":377,"date":"2013-10-10T06:42:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T06:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2013-10-10T15:43:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T15:43:53","slug":"meet-martee-shes-nott-just-tall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/10\/meet-martee-shes-nott-just-tall","title":{"rendered":"Meet Martee: She’s Nott just Tall!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cropped<\/a>Martee Dorn-Nott is thrilled to be back with the Chorale again; she sang with LBC back in the \u201890s\u00a0when the Chorale was just getting started.\u00a0 Born in Pasadena, she grew up singing in\u00a0choirs beginning in elementary school and even took voice lessons in high school from her youth choir director- Jonathan Mack.\u00a0 Yes, that Jonathan Mack, the Tenor!<\/p>\n

Martee comes from a very musical family. Her grandparents, parents, and brother have all sung in choirs at First United Methodist Church of Pasadena.<\/p>\n

Martee moved to Long Beach in 1978 and loves living in Belmont Shore.\u00a0 Her career in outside sales focused on advertising for local newspapers and cable TV. Her current position is as an independent consultant for a premium skin care company.<\/p>\n

In 2000, Martee joined the \u201cTall Club of Orange County\u201d (did you notice she\u2019s tall?) Martee tried out for the \u201cMiss Tall Orange County\u201d pageant.\u00a0 It was during her \u201ccampaign\u201d for Queen that she met her future husband, Steve Nott at a Tall Club dance.<\/p>\n

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Martee and Steve<\/p><\/div>\n

Martee won the pageant- and served as \u201cMiss Tall Orange County 2001.\u201d \u00a0Her duties as Miss Tall OC included attending many Tall Club events, parties, and interviews with newspapers and television, promoting the benefits and difficulties of being tall.\u00a0 Martee and Steve were married in October 2001 the day after she crowned the Miss Tall Orange County of 2002.<\/p>\n

In 2003 her husband Steve was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.\u00a0 Steve and Martee joined the So. Cal. Multiple Sclerosis Society and created a fundraising team for the\u00a0annual MS walk. Their team, called \u201cThe Nottheads\u201d became one of the top 100 fundraising teams for several years. Her home-based business also allows her to help care for Steve who continues his career at Long Beach container terminal in the Port of Long Beach.\u00a0 Steve can\u2019t wait to come to our concerts!<\/p>\n

Martee is an avid photographer, enjoys gourmet cooking and baking.\u00a0 But her biggest love ,besides music of course, are horses!\u00a0 Martee and Steve have one four-legged child, their infamous cat \u201cMoo Moo\u201d who provides hours of \u201cfurry therapy\u201d and laughter.<\/p>\n

Martee is honored to belong to such an incredible group of singers who have all welcomed her with open arms.\u00a0 She is ecstatic to have the opportunity so learn so much from Eliza and can\u2019t wait for the upcoming concerts that are planned.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry, Martee promises to leave her tiara at home in honor of the \u201cno bling\u201d dress code policy for our concerts!<\/p>\n

To “adopt” Martee as part of our Adopt-a-Singer program, click here:<\/p>\n

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To read more singer profiles in our Adopt-a-Singer campaign, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks for supporting the Long Beach Chorale!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Martee Dorn-Nott is thrilled to be back with the Chorale again; she sang with LBC back in the \u201890s\u00a0when the Chorale was just getting started.\u00a0 Born in Pasadena, she grew up singing in\u00a0choirs beginning in elementary school and even took … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adopt-a-singer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}