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This week's rehearsal included some genuine WOW! musical moments. I'm always impressed by Coby's listening abilities, and as he fine-tuned our balance, vowel shapes and blend we all felt the convergence of lyrics, arrangement and our singing. Like a perfect barbershop storm these things came...
moreI noticed a convergence this week between the musical aspects and business aspects of my barbershop experience. As barbershop acapella singers, we are devoted to the musical style we love so much, but how to communicate that enthusiasm to others? We all genuinely wish that the great experience...
moreIts an old saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I bumped into that recently because I had a cold that was not worth sharing with my fellow singers and missed last weeks meeting. I returned this past Tuesday and had that odd feeling, as a long time member, that I had missed...
moreThere's a thing that happens as you're working on performing, which is different than if you're working on singing the right notes at the right moment. Make no mistake, the right notes and words are crucial to musical success, but when you can reach beyond that it's special. At our last...
moreMarch first, we've chased the last stray rose petals from Singing Valentines out of the car, and the tux is at the the cleaners. It's the perfect time of year for trying new things, so we're learning new music while also trying out a new riser setup for improved rehearsal acoustics. Guess what?...
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Congratulations to our very own Social Insecurity and Brotherhood of the Ring quartets who placed 19th and...
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Click the link below to read the Register Guards article about Social Insecurities recent contest appearance on the Grand Ole Opry stage!
https://www.registerguard.com/news/20190318...
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We are back from a busy weekend at Harmony College Northwest. Yes, there is such a thing as stairwell tagging (great sound). And there we find Brandon and Christine (see above) capturing two others to enjoy making overtones in the stairs (not Lost in the Stars-different song).
I did see...
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Yesterday ended our operating in a tent as a concession site at historic Hayward Field. Whatever the new iteration of Hayward looks like, concessions will have permanent booths, not a tent. Rain will no longer create rivers running through the booth nor lakes at the front entrance.
The...
moreMaybe not the end, but the end is near. We worked the Oregon Twilight meet Friday (May 4) with the usual, and some unusual bumps in the road.
As you can see,...
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The Cascade Chorus was excited. We were hosting a Barbershop Singers Convention in Eugene April 7. Then we got a call from the University of Oregon-The Pepsi Invitational was now scheduled for April 7 and we were wanted to run the food booth. How to be two places at once? We couldn't. So a call...
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