• Melonie performed with Chicago's l'opera piccola in its production of La Traviata.
  
  
• Read the article written about Melonie in the Le Mars Daily Sentinel:
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  Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and Melonie at Chicago's Navy Pier
  
  So Many Years Ago premiered in Chicago at the Supermarket of Veterans' Benefits at Navy Pier on Saturday, July 9th, 2005. It could be heard in Festival Hall throughout the day.
  
  
• Royal Charter Buses based out of Sioux City, Iowa, has agreed to play the recording of "So Many Years Ago" on its buses.