by Bill Adams, VP of Music & Performance One of the challenges facing all of our chapters and quartets during Coronatide is how to stay active and engaged. Most of us are unwilling to risk exposure, or exposing each other, to the virus, and so we sit at home and try to think of how we can keep singing. Zoom rehearsals help to fill some of the social void but leave all of us wanting in terms of our musical connections. And yet, this year, is the tenth anniversary of our District and we Continue Reading
7th Dimension and Sh-Boom Win Carolinas Virtual Barbershop Festival Quartet Titles; Choruses Tie for Barbershop Chorus Title
In the first ever Carolinas Virtual Barbershop Festival, 7th Dimension (Carol Stephenson, Nic Cols, Gary Thorn, Garland Johnson) won the title of Favorite Barbershop Quartet with their performance of "You and The Birds and The Bees and Cupid". Tidal Fource (Tim McGrath, Jim Rowe, Hal McCann, and Brooke Pearson) won second place with their performance of "Old Cape Cod", and "Just Me" a clever solo project by Mark Schmidtke, took third with "Wonderful World". Sh-Boom won the Non-Barbershop Continue Reading
Carolinas Virtual Barbershop Festival Livestreams This Saturday
The Carolinas Virtual Barbershop Festival will be streamed on YouTube Live this Saturday, November 14th, starting at 7pm. Click here to go to the District's YouTube playlists and then select 'Carolinas Virtual Barbershop Festival. Continue Reading
Hit the Ground Running…Plan
by Nicholas DiLorenzo, District EVP Most chapters plan. The most important part of a plan is its execution. If these strange times granted us anything, they gave most of us time. Time to learn music. Time to grow our technological expertise. Time to learn new things. Perhaps the time to plan is something your chapter has overlooked. You know the cycle? The one where it’s November and it hits you that you have to start Christmas music? Or that one in January when you realize singing Continue Reading