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
State of the District September Address — Music & Performance
Hello, my name is Paul Martin. Welcome to the second of our State of the District addresses. Today we focus on Music and Performance. It’s the Music that brings us together -- it’s the reason that we got into barbershop. Who can forget the first time they rang a chord? Music soothes the soul, both for the singer and the audience. It resonates, on a basic level within us, bestowing physical and mental health. It communicates story and feeling as no other media can, connecting us to each Continue Reading
Carolinas Virtual Barbershop Festival Announced
The District Festival planning team has been meeting for the last several weeks to develop the vision for an online event to replace our Fall Festival. Our goal was to design an interactive event that allows us to come together to feature our performers but also involve other lovers of Barbershop, celebrates our past, layout our vision for the future, and have some fun. Click here for details. Continue Reading
Land of the Sky Chorus Introduces CARbershop
The Asheville Chapter’s Land of the Sky Chorus, has now had three drive-in rehearsals under their name of CARbershop. Every member can hear the chorus sound through their FM headsets (new), their car radio (not perfect) or through the speakers sharing the sound with the area, including some neighbors! Click here to see their video on Facebook. Taking advice from the Somerset Hills Chapter in NJ, Randy Johnston (whom you might know from managing sound for the Carolina’s District Fall Continue Reading