We've been having an incredible time the last couple of weeks, and are now partway through our (re)Discover Your Voice program. We've had over half a dozen guests learning about barbershop from Ted of Ted's Voice Academy, we've been prepping for Folklife, and the chorus has gotten some inspiring coaching from Ted for our upcoming summer show.
Ted:
Chris S teaching a tag in preparation for Folklife:
A dozen or so members of the chorus gathered last weekends (thank you to Dave Rice for hosting!) to sing together in quartets. We spent some time working on some chorus repertoire, too, polishing chunks of this year's contest songs in preparation for Tuesday's rehearsal. Here are a few chorus member singing part of one song:
Come join us sometime and have fun singing!
It's National Barbershop Quartet Day, and we're so happy to have so many chorus-affiliated quartets! Here they are:
Top of the Hill
The Post-It Notes
Four Ever Young
Mixed Emotions
We had a great rehearsal this week, doing our first run-through of the script for our upcoming Summer Show. It's gonna be a ton of fun, and we hope you've got the date saved to join us! Saturday, June 22 at 2pm. Be there or be square! Thanks so much to Sound Harmony Chorus for joining us for our big joint rehearsal!!
Afterglow is always a blast -- here we are singing a new tag:
The chorus had an exceptional time at this week's rehearsal, when Dane came to visit and coach us on a couple of songs for our upcoming summer show. Did we have fun? Yes. We even encouraged him to some to afterglow and sing some more. He taught a tag, and we also learned the Terry tag "Far Too Long." Here are a couple of groups singing the tag, including Dane.
We loved having Rick join us for this week's rehearsal -- and afterglow -- while visiting from The Sounds of Aloha chorus! Rick sang some new and some familiar songs, and taught a tag at afterglow, too.
Here's a quartet singing the tag Though You're Gone. Lead / bass Billy is on baritone... Lead Greg is on tenor... Bass John is on lead, and guest bass Rick is singing bass. We like to switch things up!
Join us again, Rick -- it was great singing with you!
We had a great time this weekend, polishing not only our quartet skills, but also spending some practice time on our two contest songs for this year.
Thanks to Dave for hosting, and thanks for all the great singing!
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We had a great rehearsal this week, polishing a handful of the songs that will be featured in our summer show. Check out these octets hard at work:
And here's a taste of one of our songs:
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We were charmed by (and we hope we charmed) Andrea, who joined us for a chunk of afterglow this week. We got her to sing a tag with us, numerous times, even, and she says she's going to join us at an upcoming rehearsal! We also serenaded her...
Bonus: we now have Topher's infamous wrapping up of You've Got a Friend in Me on video for posterity.
We really do have this much fun pretty much all the time. Join us!
We've been so lucky the last two weeks to have our Singing Valentine quartet members get some coaching in with Ted! We got six full hour of coaching under glass with Ted, so any chorus members who wanted to watch could come and learn along with the singers. Our Singing Valentines will be all the better for his insight!
Thank you, Ted!
And if you're interested in getting together with a fantastic vocal coach, check out Ted's website: https://www.tedsvoiceacademy.com/
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