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
STATE of the DISTRICT October Adress — Membership
Hello, my name is Paul Martin. Welcome to the third of our STATE of the DISTRICT addresses --Membership. Last month we reviewed that it’s the music that brings us together – – but it’s the friendships that make us stay. This is the key link to membership: our bond to the music AND to each other. There is also a larger, more expansive meaning of membership — that sense of community and our part and role in the social fabric with all those around us. Click here to watch Paul's video Thank 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
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