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7 Spotlight on Music Selection Master International Faculty Member Sharon Babb explains why choosing the right music is more appropriate than ever as we explore the new Regional Open Division as a choice of competition entry in 2014.

8 A Newbie on Board Meet new International Board Member Anne Cargill, and learn how she will represent members on an international level.

10 The Evolution of

Creative Costuming Marcia Massey delves into the costumes members have worn on stage since the 1960s, and suggestions the best ways to choose your onstage wardrobe.

12 From Rising Star to International Stardom Joey Mechelle Stenner dishes with Neyla Pekarek, former Rising Star winner and member of Grammy nominated band, The Lumineers.

16 Harmonizing the World

This issue features the scores, songs and personnel information from the winning quartets and choruses in each of the regional contests. Wildcards, most improved choruses and B+ choruses are also listed.

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Special Notes President’s Message …………………………… 4 HQ Matters …………………………………… 5 International Update …………………………… 6

Departments Bulletin Board ………………………………… 3 Membership Matters ………………………… 14 New Music Review …………………………… 46 Membership Spotlight ……………………… 47 Harmony Roundup …………………………… 48 In Memory …………………………………… 51 Song of Welcome ……………………………… 51 Accolades ……………………………………… 51

Involvement Young Singers Foundation ………………… 49 The Overtone Society ………………………… 50 Bowling for Barbershop …………………… 54

About the Cover Graphic designer and artist, Gabrielle Howell, painted and designed the cover on canvas using acrylic paint to illustrate the harmony, unity and diversity of our worldwide membership.

The painting is titled “harmonize.”

The 16” x 20” painting will be available at the Young Singers Foundation Silent Auction in Honolulu. Call-in bids are welcome.

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Sweet Adelines International A worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education, competition and performance.

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Special Notes

President’s Message

The Stats Are In!

Renée Porzel, International President The pages of this magazine are filled with beautiful pictures of the quartet and chorus champions and wildcards from Regional Contest 2013. Every year, our new champions wait impatiently to get their July issue of The Pitch Pipe to find their picture. This tradition goes back for decades, and the excitement they feel has never diminished. It is part of the experience of winning, and it is recognition well-deserved. We honor them and offer our most sincere congratulations for the hard work, dedication and determination it took to reach this step in their musical growth. We applaud each and every one of them, and look forward to seeing them perform in the quartet contest in Honolulu, and chorus contest in Baltimore in 2014.

I can just imagine them flipping through the pages to find their picture, and the huge smiles on their faces when they see their picture in print. I wish there was a way to honor EVERY woman who crossed the stage this contest season! Every single one of us is a star and a champion in our own way. Our organization turns amateur singers into professional level singers, dancers and performers. More than half our members do not read music, and many have never sung in a musical group since leaving school. We come from an enormous variety of backgrounds, professional careers and musical abilities. We are students, doctors, attorneys, accountants, stay-at-home moms, teachers, artists, factory workers, marketing executives, secretaries, daycare providers, nurses and pastors — an endless list. We have all been given the gift of music in our lives, and when we sing we change the world.

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The women pictured within these pages are still pinching themselves and reliving the experience of hearing their name called out as the winners. They are planning for the next competition and celebrating the results. There are many groups who had something fantastic happen at contest that are not shown in these pages, and their accomplishments are important to celebrate as well. There are choruses who improved by more than 100 points this year to win the Most Improved Chorus award in their region. There were quartets that improved by more than 50 points — amazing! New Master Directors and Master Director 700s are sporting their new pins to commemorate the accomplishments of their singers. Many first-timers discovered the thrill and excitement of singing and hearing the enthusiastic response of the audience. New friendships were formed and new memories created. There is no way to capture all of that joy in these pages — but the seemingly small details about things which happened to each of us make our contest weekends so special.

The nature of competition means that there is a wide array of emotions when contest ends and we all go back to our daily lives. So many get to celebrate, while others come home with results that are not what they expected or dreamed about as they prepared to compete. Even if your chorus is not pictured here, remember the laughter, the music and the love that was all around you while you were there. The bond we share comes from the way we feel when we sing, and singing is part of who we are. We sing beautiful music, and we change the world.

Mary Rapp (River City Sound, Region 22) has an interesting license plate on her car. It is not musical. It says I DO NMBRS, and she is not kidding. She compiles statistics that will

amaze and entertain you — and she offers a fun way to look at our contest season.

This year there were 15,272 singers competing all around the world at regional contests! There were 439 choruses that competed, and the average score was 498.6. Mary figured out that if 15,272 chorus members practiced for an average of 2.75 hours per week for 49 weeks, the total number of hours we spent singing was 2,057,902. We used 205,440 coats of nail polish (15,272 women x 10 fingers x 2 coats of polish) and 30,500 false eyelashes.

She also figured out that when 15,272 women use eyeliner on both eyes, the total number of inches covered is approximately 1.4 MILES (2.25308 kilometers) of eyeliner. Her final statistic says it all: “I couldn’t begin to estimate the number of hugs shared, tears shed or ‘Congratulations!’ uttered, but I know the memories are priceless.” I agree with Mary, and I love the way she thinks!

Congratulations to our champions, and to every member of our organization. The journey towards musical excellence continues, and there are new skills to learn just around the corner.

Challenge yourselves to set a new goal, and work to achieve it this year. Push yourselves to sing with stronger vocal skills, matched vowels, more resonance and a higher level of visual and emotional involvement. The results will be gratifying and you will find out something new about yourself as a singer, and as a woman.

Keep on singing and ringing those chords, and always remember that every time you open your mouths to sing — you change the world.

With a song & dance,

Renée Porzel International President

Special Notes

HQ Matters Hello my sisters in harmony!

What a month May was for all of us. The devastating tornadoes here in Oklahoma have been the forefront of all news media locally, nationally and internationally. The pictures and video have stopped us in our tracks, have made our hearts break for our friends and neighbors, and have often made us realize that the most important things in life are not things at all.

I heard once that in times of devastation, you should always look for the good that comes forth in tragedy. I know beyond any doubt that this is true. When we look back at 9/11, I know we all remember the horrible pictures that tore our hearts to pieces and the shock of what ground zero looked like after the dust settled. But I’m sure you remember, as I do, the outpouring of support, love, resources, and human hands that came forth to give everything they could to help, to comfort, to rebuild, and to heal. This is what we are seeing in Oklahoma.

The Moore tornado and the others that struck within days of that F5 have left a swath of desolation and complete destruction in this beautiful state. There are many other towns in Oklahoma that will rebuild, that have lost members of the community, and who are working hand-in-hand to make something new where something has been lost.

I think I speak for many when I say that we have all been processing these scenes in our heads and hearts since May 20, 2013 — but I know that there are other pictures that are imprinted on my heart as well. I have seen Sweet Adelines from all over the world reach out to our sisters in harmony in Oklahoma.

They have pledged money, have provided resources and have sent thousands of messages of encouragement and love to those in need.

This is the good that comes forth in a time of tragedy. This is the message of Sweet Adelines around the world. In a time when the world is so often cynical, isn’t it wonderful to be a part of something good – truly good – something

pure? We are involved with an organization whose mission is to perfect harmony, to bring about the best in women, and to become an active part in something that is greater and bigger than oneself.

When I tell other people about Sweet Adelines, I love to tell them about who we are — about the heart of this organization.

I love to tell them that we are a worldwide organization with more than 23,000 women barbershop singers in 14 countries. I love to tell them that we help women find their voice.

I love to tell them that we help them find the confidence to become the very best version of themselves — someone who is the best mom, wife, friend, sister and chorus member that

What we do as Sweet Adelines is so important to the world we live in, even if the world doesn’t yet know it. she will ever be. We help women find their voices, not just in singing, but in life. Sweet Adelines are my favorite people on earth.

What we do as Sweet Adelines is so important to the world we live in, even if the world doesn’t yet know it.

This organization has a dynamic purpose from which women all over the world can benefit. I encourage each of you to get involved in your local chapter, to volunteer for a regional assignment, to support Sweet Adelines International at the worldwide level. In a time where many association memberships are on the decline, we can take this incredible organization in a positive direction by recruiting more members, by participating in fundraising activities, and by sharing what we have come to know and love about Sweet Adelines with people we know.

Kelly Bailey, Executive Director At International Headquarters, we are creating new and innovative ways for members to get involved, to plan unique events that will attract all members to participate, to contract convention sites that are affordable and convenient, and to do whatever we can to ensure that your membership in Sweet Adelines International is all that it can be.

We need you to come to convention, to participate in convention week, to attend educational events, and to get involved at the chapter level and the regional level to make sure that your voice is heard.

Together we will move this organization into a bright and beautiful future, full of love, laughter and perfect harmony. What we do is important, it is needed in the world we live in, and we are just the right group to make a difference. We can make that difference and we will with your help.

Thank you for all that you do to make a difference in the lives of others. Always remember that your membership in Sweet Adelines International is much, much more than a membership card. You are a part of something very special, a piece of something true, and a critical ingredient to what makes us dynamic, incredible and extraordinary. Thank you for being you.

In harmony,

Kelly Bailey Executive Director

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Sweet Adelines International INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS 262ND (Summer) Meeting International Update The International Board of Directors met on June 7-8, 2013, in Tulsa, Okla. Following is a summary of actions taken.

Special Notes

The charter and chapter membership for the following chapters were authorized: • Sirens of Gotham, Region 15, New York, N.Y. • Limestone City Voices, Region 16, Elginburg, Ontario, Canada The name change requests for the following regions were authorized: • East Central Region 4 changed to Harmony Heartland Region 4 • Can/Am Region 6 changed to Northern Lights Region 6 • Lake Erie Region 17 changed to Great Lakes Harmony Region 17 Elaine Hamilton, Chapter-at-Large, Region 31, was chosen as the recipient of the 2013 Ann Gooch Award.

Debbie Baker, Talk of Tulsa Show Chapter, Region 25, was chosen as the recipient of the 2013 NAfME Award.

International President Renée Porzel announced that she selected Sharon Babb as the recipient of the 2013 President’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Eight Young Women in Harmony choruses entered the Young Women in Harmony Video Chorus Contest. Chandler High School Treblemakers Chorus, of Chandler, Ariz. was announced as the winner of the 2013 contest.

The International Nominating Committee will be reviewing nineteen applicants as potential nominees for the International Board of Directors election. The potential nominees are: • Anne Cargill, Aberdeen Chorus #31 • Alyson Chaney, Lace City Chorus #31 • Jeanne d’Arc (JD) Crowe, Canadian Showtime Chorus #16 • Paula Davis, Velvet Hills Chorus #8 • Lisbet Duponte, Chapter-at-Large #15 • Deborah B. Ferenc, Greater Cleveland Chorus #17 and Scioto Valley Chorus #4 • Elaine Hamilton, Chapter-at-Large #31 • Vickie Jean Maybury, Skyline Chorus #8 • Cammi MacKinlay, Lions Gate Chorus #26 • Janice G. McKenna, Pacific Sound Chorus #13 • Carolé Mensing, Coastline Show Chorus #1 • Lynda Motes Hill, TuneTown Show Chorus #4 • Mari Pettersson, Harmony Heights Chorus #32 • Marcia Pinvidic, City of Gardens Chorus #26 • Renée Porzel, Melodeers Chorus #3 • Angela Suraci, Mission Valley Chorus #12 • Valerie Taylor, Vocal Dimension Chorus #31 • Chris Temperante, City of Lakes Chorus #6 • Mary Ann Zorovic, Greater Auckland Chorus #35 A Global Open House was scheduled for September 2013.

The Geographic Boundaries section of the Policy Book (Section IV, Division A) was revised to reflect the boundary divisions as a result of Harmonic Progression.

The Member-at-Large section of the Policy Book (Section III, Division B, Page 3) was revised to clarify that Members-at-Large may belong to and perform with registered quartets but that the registered quartet may not compete. Staff at international headquarters will facilitate assigning an evaluator to audition Member-at-Large quartets for public performance.

A Regional Most Improved Chorus Award medal has been designed and will be available through the international sales department.

The concept for a networking vacation-style event entitled Sun & Sing was approved.

The Coronet Club announced that it will webcast the Coronet Club Show in Hawaii.

The job description for the Regional TOS (The Overtone Society) Ambassador was approved.

Staff announced that, to date, approximately $15,000 has been raised through the Bowling for Barbershop fundraising campaign.

The Board agreed to extend the fundraising campaign through August 31, 2013.

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Choosing the Right Music —

The Best Is Yet To Be!

By Sharon Babb, Colorado Spirit Chorus, Region 8

What is the most difficult, scary and risky job of a director or quartet or coach, you ask?

Choosing music for competition. Always is, has been, and will be.

Why? There are so many factors to be considered.

Selecting music is the most popular class at director seminars, quartet workshops and music staff training. And it should be a group sport.

Although the director — and, often, the lead — is charged with this responsibility, it’s the kind of decision that requires the use of a pro/con list, the advice of music judges and arrangers and coaches, the experience of those having sung the song in the past, and the gut feeling of the decision makers.

Choosing appropriate music is in a hotter-thanever spotlight. Especially considering the onset of the new Regional Open Division as a choice of competition entry for quartets and choruses in 2014, and with changes to the formats of Harmony Classic and the International Chorus and Quartet Finals beginning in 2015 in Las Vegas.

Since only one song will be category evaluated, the choice of song and arrangement and the performance of it will be even more important facets of competition planning. The selection of the remaining music for the 10-minute Regional Open Division package and the 12-15-minute International Entertainment package will be a critical choice as well.

Since musicality is one of the six criteria for the awarding of levels and points for the entertainment score (others include unity, script/theme, emcee/ microphone technique, creativity, communication), choosing the appropriate music that you sing best for the competition piece and for the remainder of the package enfolds a multitude of considerations.

The music for the entertainment package will offer a more liberal hand for chorus directors and quartets in choosing music that may already be within the regular performing repertoire.

The positioning of the competition song will also be important. Should you warm up with an entertaining welcome song and then go to the competition number? Or, perhaps, use it as the climax of the performance? Or should it be sandwiched between? Where is your singing and performing energy level optimal? How should the theme be developed?

Who do you call when you need help choosing competition music and repertoire selections in general?

For starters, every quartet and almost every director needs a music consultant — no matter the level at which you sing. A music judge, arranger, qualified regional faculty member or coach can be your VBFF (Very Best Favorite Friend) to guide you in your choices.

So much music; so little time!

Fortunately, a wealth of musical arranging talent surrounds us. Become acquainted with the International Music lists/private arranger lists/ Sweet Adelines International folios for competition material/Young Women in Harmony lists/our music subscription service. Listen to good barbershop — it’s the best training for helping you to identify what good chording, voice leading, and harmonization are all about.

Some general considerations: • Look for simple, memorable, manageable, and sensible melody lines that are interesting, mostly major, with intervals in moderate ranges.

• Choose arrangement with chords that the chorus/quartet can sing within their optimal part ranges and their ability to handle tempo, rhythms, lyric delivery, dynamics and breath plans.

song for a while before you introduce it and wait until you (and your coach) have the interpretive plan well in hand to initiate the learning tracks — relearning is more difficult than initial learning. Consider how you will teach the piece for effective learning.

• Make the arrangement yours — consult with who wrote it about how to do that best.

• Don’t imitate what others have done; innovate for your chorus/quartet. Select music to fit their image and capabilities.

• Let the coach see the arrangement early on so she can be proactive in its preparation and crafting.

• As judges (believe me), we never “hear” the same song twice, so don’t worry about who’s also doing it, or how many times we’ve judged it. And remember that we are judging your barbershop acumen, not how many times something is sung in contest.

• New songs are welcome so long as they are arranged WELL in barbershop style and your chorus or quartet can sing them well.

• Is the arrangement replete with open vowels and singable consonants?

• Use the resources for music that our Internati onal organization and our arrangers offer.

Budgeting for music acquisition should be an integral part of your financial plans, never a miscellaneous expense.

• Does the song structure make sense? Type the lyrics in poetic form to study closely the structure /repeated forms/vowels/hook repeats/climax/ message.

• Rarely can a men’s arrangement be transferred into a more suitable key without revoicing many chords. Consult the original arranger or a qualified Sweet Adelines arranger to aid in the process.

• Is it a character study or story line that fits your chorus/quartet style?

• In the end it is the performance of the piece that accounts for 70 percent of the Music score. The Music judge will be commenting and judging the suitability of your choice, but all categories are affected in some way by the music you choose.

• Do the lyrical and musical high points coincide?

• A word or two of caution: medleys are fun to sing, but often difficult to execute. Consider stamina and tuning acumen, key changes, tempos establishment and maintenance.

• Parodies often present their own peculiar challenges in lyrical integrity, rhythms and copyright clearance.

• Potential pitfalls/problems to consider: patter passages, bell chords, overly-embroidered embellishments at phrase ends, extended minor mode, key choices, modulations, irregular bass jumps, melody line frequently outside the scale of the key.

• Start early in the selection process. Live with the

What’s the bottom line?

Select the music that we sing best. Then prepare and craft it, teach it, coach it, re-teach it, rehearse it, and allow us to perform it — often!

Finally, after considering the subject’s complexity, it might be good to remember that there are no perfect competition songs. They all have their promise and their problems.

Perhaps, also, the whole subject can be summed up with what an old-time philosopher once said: “In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends — but I wouldn’t advise it.” n

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A Newbie On Board

By Anne Cargill, Aberdeen Chorus, Region 31

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n December 2012, I had a phone call from our International President, Renée Porzel, to tell me that I had been chosen to serve on a one-year appointment to the International Board of Directors, starting May 1, 2013. I was, of course, hugely

delighted — and just a bit amazed.

At the end of February this year I flew to Tulsa, Okla., for my orientation day, and to attend my first meeting of the Board of Directors as a non-voting member. I arrived in Tulsa on what happened to be my birthday, and was surprised and very touched to find a birthday cake and a card signed by all 29 members of the HQ staff (most of whom I had never met)! This proved to be an early indication of the thoughtfulness and kindness I was to experience throughout my stay in Tulsa.

I was escorted to the International HQ building the following morning, and was naturally feeling slightly apprehensive. But, the welcome I met was so warm and friendly that I almost immediately felt at ease and at home. I was given a tour by Membership Manager Ann-Marie Dowling, and was introduced to all of the staff. The whole outfit was evidently thriving under Kelly Bailey’s very able leadership. I don’t think I have ever met such a motivated and enthusiastic group of people in any workplace.

President Renée Porzel, Immediate Past President Cammi MacKinlay and President-Elect Marcia Pinvidic, gave me a comprehensive briefing on the workings of the Board and my prospective role, and showed enormous patience in answering my many questions. All the other Board members arrived in the evening, and I found them equally helpful, friendly and supportive.

There followed two long days of Board meetings. I had received all the reports and agendas before the meeting so I was able to follow most of what went on, and even managed to contribute on occasion.

I was astounded at the amount of work these women do. There were lively discussions on a wide range of issues affecting the organisation with sometimes very different views being expressed, but in the end they always seemed to reach what I thought were sensible and well-reasoned decisions.

The whole proceedings were carried out with a spirit and camaraderie that seemed to pervade

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the whole organisation, and which I felt perhaps most strongly on the final evening when Board members and staff came together at the Hawaiian-style Installation Dinner. The dinner itself was a wonderfully organised and impressive event orchestrated by Kelly, emceed by Cammi and attended by all the Board members and staff. I was formally presented with my Board Member pin by Renée — a proud moment for me. The evening was a memorable combination of tradition, good food, great company and fun.

My path to the dizzying heights of the International Board began in the north east of Scotland where I was born and raised. I graduated from Aberdeen University with a degree in French and Psychology, and then took up a career in nursing. After training in general nursing in Edinburgh and then as a midwife in Aberdeen, I worked in a number of posts in Scotland before going to work for P&O/ Princess cruises as a nursing officer. I served on cruise ships which sailed all over the world and which included the Pacific

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Princess, the famous “Love Boat” of the 1970s and 1980s television series which some of you might remember. Despite the TV image, work was often quite demanding and serious, and could involve working long hours — although admittedly there were quite a few fun interludes! It was here I met Robin who was the ship’s doctor and we have been close ever since. After several years at sea I came ashore to resume working in the hospital service in the UK, gained a further university degree in Nursing Studies, and progressed

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through various senior nursing roles leading to a position as Assistant Director of Nursing. This inevitably involved much administrative and committee work. I retired in 2010, and I must admit, I love my newfound freedom!

I spend as much time as possible in outdoor activities, particularly walking in the mountains of Scotland and the European Alps — or in hills anywhere.

I love travel, but also manage to keep in close and constant touch with my brothers and their expanding families at home in Scotland, and I have happily A major bonus of my retirement is having more time to devote to my singing activities which include singing bass with the Aberdeen Chorus, organising and singing in an annual Christmas concert with a choir of more than 100 Health Service Staff and their friends in aid of CLIC Sargent, the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity, and being heavily involved with two Alzheimer Scotland musical therapy groups for people with dementia and their caregivers. They get enormous benefit from singing together and socialising with others in a similar situation, and incidentally they are enthusiastic audience members of Sweet Adelines shows!

Sweet Adelines around the world. I had the great honour to be given the Ann Gooch award in 2011, and my present appointment to the International Board of Directors is much more than anything I ever expected.

I am sure that my appointment to the Board will be a most rewarding

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taken on the role of doting great aunt.

learning experience, but I also hope to be able to provide positive contributions wherever possible. I have presently been appointed to the Membership Committee, whose aims include expanding global membership and awareness campaigns. I will be one of the panel at a visioning discussion at the Regional Management Team Forum at the International Convention in Honolulu, and will be acting as facilitator at a Membership Coordinators’ Discussion group and at a long-range

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Perhaps my favourite singing time is spent with Vocal Zone, a Sweet Adelines quartet that is comprised of Dorothy Main (l), Gwen Topp (bt), Val Muir (t), and myself (bs). Gwen is a master director and leads the Aberdeen Chorus, and Dorothy, Val and I are section leaders. We have sung together for the past 13 years, and as I suspect happens with most quartets, we seem to spend as much time laughing as singing.

My involvement with Sweet Adelines began in 1993 singing with the Aberdeen Chorus, and shortly afterwards with a quartet. Over the following years I served with the chorus management in various capacities including costume chair, secretary, publicity officer and chorus president, and I went on to become involved in the Regional Management Team as the education coordinator. I loved working on the team, helping in the planning of events and organising workshops which enabled me to liaise with and meet with many inspiring teachers, as well as the women in Rumors, “the Buzz,” and Brava!, and also gave me the opportunity to act as emcee at various regional events. This was followed by an invitation to take on International roles —

educational planning discussion at the same meeting. I understand that other assignments are in the pipeline for me that no doubt will be equally interesting and challenging.

As I entered the foyer of the Headquarters building on my first day I was fascinated to see the display of dolls representing winning quartets and choruses over the years since the organisation was founded, each one dressed in their competition costume. These together with the pictures of all the past presidents and board members arranged on the walls and the stairs gave me a great sense of the history, tradition and progress of our wonderful organisation in the past decades.

At the end of three most stimulating days in Tulsa, having had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know many of the movers and shakers of Sweet Adelines International, who by their own hard work and talent have brought about the expansion and evolution of the organisation, I have become even more inspired to try to contribute to this ongoing progress.

In the course of our final board meeting, Sharon Babb, who stepped down from the Board after twelve years of service, handed me a greeting card that contained

I was on the Editorial Review Board of The Pitch Pipe and also spent some

the inspirational words, “Just always remember

time on the Regional Leadership Committee, where I was able to learn

all those wonderful women for whom

much about all the regions and to begin to appreciate what goes on with

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Pa r t II o f I I I

The Evolution of

Creative Costuming 1960 to the present

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O, Jim! We will NOT bend over and show our backsides just to build a living, grand piano at International contest! But we did … and it paid off.

When I was asked to feature my own chorus, O.K. City, in this article, I knew I had to include our director for 47 years, Jim Massey (yep, my husband). Jim believed we could do anything and pushed the walls hard. We trusted his creative instincts as a master director and as a master performer.

Jim had that rare vision to see the total package, beginning to end, with creative costuming as an integral part of the vision. It could start with a song or some routine he dreamed up or with a brainstorming session of ideas and music. For us, creative costuming was always defined as dressing the music, the story and character(s) within the music. They were never separated. Music, interpretation, becoming the character, telling the story, choreography and costuming were always intertwined. The purpose was to bring the music fully to life and to make sure the audience would get as big a charge out of it as we did.

It was FUN! And it STILL is fun. From Native American maidens to a Sultan and his harem; from hobos who become elegant ladies to sharpshooter Annie Oakley in London; from Red Hot Mamas to Mrs. Bailey hanging her wash on the line with a scarf prop; from ballet dancers to recognizable movie stars and so many more … my gosh, it was fun! And it still is with Mary Rhea, who succeeded Jim with her own style of WOW! We may have been one of the early kick-starters, but other choruses jumped on the creative costuming bandwagon along with us. Who can forget the sailors or toy soldiers created by North Metro? [1] How about Song of Atlanta’s wild and crazy costumes; Pride of Portland’s Nuns; [2] the very European style of Rönninge Show Chorus; the zany show packages of Kansas City and Spirit of the Gulf or the baseball team and spectators clad in complementary shades of blue by the Metro Nashville Chorus. And we can’t forget choruses like Pride of West Texas, who love to make us laugh. [3] These and many others ably portrayed every character known to man, way too many to list.

Costuming characters can be quite elaborate or quite simple. For example, that piano costume was nothing more than a simple, basic black dress with a black and white striped collar to suggest the piano keys. When

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worn with white gloves, the chorus transformed into the actual keyboard, played by the singers. When the “piano” was built, the white gloves were disguised except for the gloved keyboard, which was played by the director who sat on a bench created by one very flexible singer. [4] The song, inspired by a Liza Minnelli performance, was a partially “balladized” version of I Love A Piano with the [4] piano being the character.

A far more elaborate costume was my personal favorite because it was my baby. Jim wrote a song called Back When The Movies Were Young, which was perfect for a costume I had long wanted to do. It was designed so we could portray instantly recognizable early day movie stars or characters. Assignment of roles for each chorus member required quite a bit of research as well as “seeing” which singers already looked like various individual stars. Two singers showed a strong resemblance to W. C. Fields and Jimmy Durante. One very thin person became Olive Oyl. Darlene Rogers became Mae West and I always knew I was Charlie Chaplin.

Others chose their characters from a list, or were assigned according to height, body style, coloring, bearing, etc. Chorus members were given ideas about costuming their character, then bringing their creations in for approval. Because of sheer numbers, there had to be some “filler” character types but almost all met our goal of instant recognition. One challenge was getting enough color in the picture, simply because early movies were black and white and we didn’t choose to use all black and white. A valuable lesson was learned with that costume when our regional contest judges deemed that we had not sung up to the costuming.

Whoops! [5] When I asked Kim Wonders to send a picture of Metro Nashville Chorus in their cleverly coordinated shades of blue baseball scene, she sent along a copy of the process used to create the total picture. Interestingly, with about a 30-year difference in their baseball creation and our movie set, the processes were almost identical.

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Creative costuming is not always character driven.

There are times when necessity truly does become the mother of invention. This happened with Pride of Kentucky when their stage costumes were burned in a fire and there was little time or money to start over. It was decided that each singer would wear her own white outfit – but not just any white. There are many shades of white, as there are of black, and they look different under stage lights. They decided to use a white that avoided such differences. Fabrics, styles and trim were also carefully coordinated for each person to look her best and to make sure no one costume fought for center stage. Thanks to Betty Lou Coleman, it was a beautifully coordinated and total look of costumes that were different from each other, yet belonged together. AND the music remained the focal point of the presentation. [7]

Take Me Out To The Ball Game Metro Nashville Makes a Costume Home Run

By Kim Wonders, Metro Nashville Chorus, Region 4 The Baseball Package for Metro Nashville Chorus was one of the most detailed and fun projects we have ever undertaken. Once we decided on a baseball package, the creative team – composed of me (director), Natalie Allen (choreographer), and Vickie Wonders Foltz (artistic director) – began the process of what we would wear and how to make it happen.

Our scenario would take place in 1908, the year the song Take Me Out To The Ball Game was written.

Other decisions made that impact the evolution of this costume, included: • The front row would be the baseball team.

• Everyone else would be characters in the stands with each chorus member selecting a character, with a name and a reason they were at the ballpark that day.

• All of the costumes would come from a blue palette, using only complementary shades of blue.

Sometimes when a new piece of music is announced, a light goes on in the old noggin and you know immediately what the costume will look like, along with the style of choreography. Then there are times when there is no specific character in the music so you might create one with a scenario that easily works with a particular piece of music. Note the word “easily” — trying to make it work seldom does.

Here are a few tips to keep in mind when designing a costume: • The costume should never overpower the music.

Singing well, expressively, is our main goal.

• When costuming a story/character, the story line must be obvious and the point must be made with the first song or your audience will suffer confusion and their attention will be diverted from your intention.

• Proportion, properly fitting undergarments and ease of movement is essential.

• Your costume need not be expensive, but quality in both fabric and construction are essential.

• Make sure your fabric will do what is asked of it.

Gabardine will not float and chiffon doesn’t take structure.

• Design, color, fabric and trim should bring attention to singers’ faces. A waistline somewhere is important to body definition and overall look. Otherwise, the chorus could resemble a rectangular blob.

• Put all parts under hot, white lights to look for any detail that is off-balance. Be honest.

• A simple prop (scarf, boa, etc.) may enable you to tell the story effectively with an existing costume. Much practice is essential.

• With a rip-off costume piece, much practice is essential (do I hear an echo?) and there should be an evident reason for it.

• Research the time period of your music and/or storyline.

• Think outside of the box and follow up with practical applications.

• Above all, keep it musical.

All of our choruses and quartets bring an incredible amount of creativity to the stage.

We continue to entertain with every talent and trick we can dream, beg, borrow, or steal, making it our own. I wish I could show you all of the pictures and tell you the stories of the many, many creative costumes we have enjoyed since 1960 when I became a member.

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Not all creative costumes are “costumy.”

San Diego Chorus had me scratching my head wondering how to dress a chorus whose up-tune was a WWI medley about a young woman sending her boyfriend off to war, with the second song, I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier, being sung by a mother sending her son off to war. The costume had to suit both characters in age and viewpoints.

In addition, research showed that daywear during the 1914-1918-war period was incredibly drab and matronly. The decision was made to use navy and white, good for both ages, and a pattern (taken right from a pattern book) that suggested the time period.

Please note there is not one sequin in sight. We do love glitz but it isn’t always appropriate. Sometimes color alone does the job. [6]

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With every type of costume, we are actresses who, with the power of our voices, bring the music to life with every possible visual we can dream up.

Whatever choices you make, be sure they are YOU. Continue the evolution of creative costuming with Tori Postma in the next issue of The Pitch Pipe, as she brings us into present and future trends.

The selection of fabric took the longest time and also involved our costume committee. We searched for patterned and solid materials that blended well together. The design and fabric for the baseball team came first with the rest of the costumes complementing them. There were two stipulations — no sequins and no white material. The baseball team wore gray shirts under their uniforms and everyone wore black shoes. Having researched the time period, we selected patterns from that period for each costume.

Using a poster board and blue and pink post-its, each chorus member took a post-it the color of her character’s gender (pink for female, blue for male), put her name on it and placed it on the poster board with relation to where she stood on the risers. After rehearsal, the creative team looked at the board and the balance of gender on the risers. If a change of gender was needed, each person readily agreed.

After all fabric was selected, swatches were brought to rehearsal. Each singer chose the piece she wanted her character to wear, placing it on the poster board in relation to where she stood on the risers. Again, after rehearsal, the team looked at the swatch board to determine if we had a good balance

Now, go forward SINGINGLY! n of material across the risers. A couple of people were asked to change material for a better balance.

The costume committee made almost all the costumes.

The entire chorus embraced our vision and this project. We pictured the end result, but were just not sure it was going to look that way. It would either be a huge success or a big flop. When we saw the costumes on the risers for the first time, we were surprised and thrilled at the look. The positive comments we received from judges and audience members in the competitions to follow were rewarding and affirming.

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Fe a t u r e d A r t i c l e From Rising Star to International Stardom

Neyla Pekarek

The Lumineers

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Photo by Scarlet Page

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By Joey Mechelle Stenner, Editor, The Pitch Pipe

t was 2009 in Nashville –Music City USA– when Vogue graced the stage at the Sommet Center, winning the Rising Star Quartet Contest.

The four young women in Vogue dazzled the Sweet Adelines audience, and after receiving accolades onstage they were whisked off to a cover photo shoot with Zing!, the 2010 International Champion Quartet. Erin Cardin (t), Ruthie Harden (now Tabone) (l), Neyla Pekarek (bt) and Ashley Estrada (bs) had a chemistry that some quartets only dream about.

Neyla spent time on the risers with Skyline Chorus as the others graced the Harborlites and Scottdale Chorus risers. All are still singing today as Sweet Adelines or in other musical ensembles, and barbershop is still very much a part of their lives.

A year or so after winning the Rising Star Quartet Contest, Neyla answered an ad for a cellist. A classically trained Denver native, she began playing cello and singing with Wesley Schultz (lead vocals, guitar) and Jeremiah Fraites (drums, percussion) as a part of The Lumineers. On June 14, 2012, the band’s single Ho Hey debuted at number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song later peaked at number three on the Hot 100, and in December 2012 the song reached #1 on the U.S. Hot AC airplay charts. The song topped the charts in Canada, U.K. and elsewhere internationally.

Since then the band has toured in the U.S., the U.K., Europe and Australia headlining sold out shows — many of which had to be moved to larger venues.

The band has hit the music festival circuit this year and has appeared on countless national and international television shows, in magazine interviews and on the red carpet. On Dec. 5, 2012, The Lumineers were nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best New Artists and Best American Album.

I was fortunate enough to catch up with Neyla to dish about music, fame, Sweet Adelines and more.

Joey Mechelle Stenner: I’ll jump right in. Wow! Conan, Saturday Night Live (SNL), the Grammys, Billboard’s Top 100, Coachella, sold out shows and international tours, the red carpet, countless magazines. Is it like a dream?

How are you handling it all?

Neyla Pekarek: Well, first off, I just want to express my excitement in doing this interview. We do a lot of interviews on a daily basis, and this was one I was particularly excited about doing!

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But in regards to your question, it is like a dream in that everything seems to be moving at a pace that is not lifelike. It’s hard to process everything that’s happening, and I think I will be able to react to everything that’s happened once I have a moment to reflect on it. For now, I’m just holding on and enjoying the ride.

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JMS: Has the fame been pretty instant?

NP: The trajectory of this band is not a normal one, so it really is a lot to cope with. Only a little over a year ago I was juggling three jobs (substitute teaching, nannying and a restaurant job) just to make ends meet, and now I’m able to make a living just as a musician. That has been the biggest success for me, personally.

JMS: How long have you been touring?

NP: When I joined the band in January of 2010, I just thought it would be a fun way to pass the time as well as a way to broaden my horizons as a musician, but I didn’t have any plans to do this full time. About eight months after we had been playing together locally, my band mates proposed the idea of touring.

We packed up a minivan and took off for 30 days across the U.S. We toured on and off for about a year and a half until we released the record last April.

Since then, we’ve been on the road constantly. I think we did close to 200 days on the road last year, and we’re looking at about 300 days this year.

JMS: What’s it like traveling with a bunch of guys? Different than your Sweet Adelines days?

NP: (laughing) It is very different in some ways and oddly similar in others.

Much like a quartet, it’s a complex relationship of finding people you want to sing with, travel with, be friends with, have financial ties to — but at least I don’t have to worry about finding matching outfits that everyone will look good in! They’re great guys; it’s like having a bunch of brothers, but I do really miss spending time with my girlfriends. It’s really made me treasure the female friendships I do have.

JMS: Let’s talk about Sweet Adelines now. How did you get involved?

NP: Darin Drown (Storm Front and Sound of the Rockies) was my high school choir teacher. I started nannying for the Storm Front kiddos in exchange for voice lessons from Darin. I would travel to men’s international to help out the Storm Front wives, but was instantly hooked and quickly left my role as a nanny so I could watch the convention. I had a couple of quartets in high school, and then started two different Young Women in Harmony (YWIH) quartets in college (Starlet and Stiletto) that both competed at the Rising Star Quartet Contest, and finally Vogue, who won Rising Star in 2009, just after I graduated college.

Editor’s note: Storm Front, 2010 Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) Gold Medal International Champion Quartet; Sound of the Rockies, a BHS chorus JMS: How do you think Sweet Adelines International prepared you for the stardom you are experiencing now?

Vogue

JMS: Was it difficult learning the barbershop style of singing?

NP: Growing up as a string player, I developed a pretty good ear early on. I love singing the harmony parts for that reason. I sang lead for quite a while, too, and that was the most difficult. I have so much respect for really good leads because it is such a hard thing to do.

JMS: How long were you a member? Did you sing with a chorus?

NP: I joined Skyline Chorus in 2005 and sang with them for about three years. At the time, I was commuting from school, and found it difficult to really commit with a full school schedule.

But I loved singing in a chorus (with 179 other women!). I had some very amazing endeavors with Skyline, and the women in that chorus are incredible. I made some great friendships while I was there. When I sang with Vogue, the other three members were members of Harborlites Chorus, and I was able to be on the risers a few times with them, too. It was a great experience to sing under the direction of Pam Pieson; I think she’s really wonderful.

JMS: How do you think Sweet Adelines International could recruit and retain new and younger members?

NP: There’s something very addictive about barbershop. I think once people get into it, they tend to stick around. But for young people, it’s hard to devote the time and money; at least that’s what was hard for me.

It’s hard to be a casual member; it can be very all-or-nothing. But finding ways to attract young people, such as innovative charts that include contemporary songs (for example, Rich-Tone Chorus singing Lady Gaga at contest this past year was incredible!), while still keeping true to the traditions of Sweet Adelines.

I think the things that bond people to Sweet Adelines, in addition to the chords and music,

are the friendships they make. So, providing welcoming communities to these new singers is so important. I think there are some individuals doing such great things for the young singers community such as Jennifer Edwards (now Perry), Debbie Cleveland and Gary Lewis to name a few, but it needs to be an effort that’s made on a much bigger level.

Editor’s note: Jennifer Perry, lead of Moxie Ladies, 2009 International Champion Quartet and YWIH coach and director. Debbie Cleveland, Showtime, 1994 International Champion Quartet, “The Buzz”, 2004 International Champion Quartet, Youth in Harmony clinician and sought after coach.

Gary Lewis is a BHS superstar — Max Q, 2007 BHS International Champion Quartet, Platinum, 2000 BHS International Champion Quartet, The Real Deal, 1994 BHS Collegiate Champion Quartet and director of BHS’ The Men of Independence Chorus JMS: What do you think about the upswing and popularity of a cappella music?

NP: I think the spotlight that is being shed on a cappella music is so great. It’s really drawing in younger people, which is such a vital part of keeping the art form alive. I think some of the recordings for those shows and movies use a little more auto tune than any true a cappella singer would like to hear, but the sentiment behind it is great for the a cappella music scene.

JMS: How do you describe the type of music you play with The Lumineers? Is it similar in any way to singing barbershop?

NP: We play folk music, essentially, and while it’s quite different from barbershop, I think the pure nature behind both styles is very similar. We play quite stripped down music. It’s easy to add all sorts of instruments and voices and sounds, but we strive to have simple music that lets the lyrics breathe. I think barbershop is the same in that, at the end of the day, we want good clean chords that ring.

JMS: What words of wisdom can you give the young women joining Sweet Adelines, or the young women who compete in the Rising Star Quartet Contest? Those who might want to go on to bigger musical aspirations?

NP: First, I would congratulate them because they’ve been introduced to not only the BEST art form (in my humble opinion), but to a wonderful community of women who love to sing just as much as they do. And then I would tell them that they better be committed, hardworking women because whether it’s Rising Star or weekly chorus or the Grammys, it takes a ton of work and commitment. I saturated my life

Vogue with barbershop — constantly singing, listening and arranging. I learned so much about it by listening to tons of recordings, and trying out different things with my own quartets.

JMS: You have a wonderful voice and seem to really enjoy singing. But is cello your first love? How long have you been playing?

NP: I started playing cello when I was nine, and I loved it growing up. But being a string player can be a very introverted, serious lifestyle. It takes so much practice, which means lots of alone time with your instrument. I developed a love of musical theater and being on stage in high school, and with Darin being a great teacher and mentor to me, found barbershop just engrossed me. It’s still my first love, even if I don’t have the time for it right now.

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NP: The level of commitment and work ethic that it takes to be part of Sweet Adelines really prepared me for what I have to do for The Lumineers. We really have had to dedicate our whole lives to this project. I don’t think it will be that way forever, but right now we have to make it a priority.

Additionally, the performance skills I learned as a Sweet Adeline have carried me through things like SNL, the Grammys, and sold out shows.

Being able to be in front of thousands of people and not let nerves get the best of me is something I definitely attribute to Sweet Adelines.

Vogue & Zing!

JMS: Have you been starstruck by anyone you have met? Who? NP: I thought I would be much more starstruck meeting some of these iconic people. But I have to say, I think being around the barbershop world where you get to actually hang out and sing tags with your barbershop heroes, prepared me well! I can honestly say that I think I was more starstruck meeting Ambiance at the convention in Seattle than meeting Prince at the Grammys!

Editor’s note: Ambiance, 1986 International Champion Quartet JMS:Wow! Well, we absolutely love you, and we are so very proud of you. We are thrilled that you are such a strong advocate for Sweet Adelines International. We would like to invite you to rejoin Sweet Adelines International as a member-at-large.

NP: I can’t tell you how much that means to me.

I have every intention of coming back to sing with Sweet Adelines when my life settles down a little bit. I would be very interested in doing youth workshops and helping keep Sweet Adelines alive! That is a very kind gesture; I can’t thank you enough!

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We are happy to report that Neyla is once again a part of our international membership as a memberat-large. We look forward to watching her success with The Lumineers, and any future endeavors she embarks on, and we will await the day she steps on to the Sweet Adelines risers again. We will always be her greatest fans, and we fully anticipate that she will forever be a fan of Sweet Adelines International.

Shine on, Neyla Pekarek, shine on!

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Departments M em b e r s h ip m a tte r s

One Voice, One Message

Global Success The enthusiasm expressed by members throughout the month of January was exhilarating. Members from around the globe joined ogether to achieve the unified goal of growing the membership and perpetuating the art form of barbershop harmony. Thousands of singers walked through your doors, sang with you and absolutely loved it.

More than

260 chapters

announced that they actively participated in the campaign

Since the launch of the first Global Open House in January 2012, and the ongoing efforts of the One Voice, One Message campaign, your grassroots efforts have began resonating with women everywhere. From January through March of 2013 membership numbers rose consistently each month! The combination of the cohesive branding, the global theme and joining together at the same time of the year drew attention to women around the world and inspired them to join in.

The local, grassroots efforts of each chapter and member play a significant role on the sustenance of this organization. Sweet Adelines International is a non-profit organization, and is not owned by a person or investors. It is owned by its volunteer members, YOU, whose dues are spent supporting the mission of the organization. This is your organization, and it counts on you to spread the word and influence others. Your personal recommendation has a much deeper impact on the general public than any general advertisement would. So, keep harmonizing the world — women all around the world have taken notice!

Membership numbers grew by 338 members between January and March 2013

Promotional Plans, Publicity and More From Some of Our Global Open House Superstars Region 3 planned an all day event opened to women of all ages within the surrounding community, where guests participated in singing and choreography routines. They offered information to guests about the choruses in their area and the local media helped publicize the event. Check it out at: http:// bit.ly/11YhelK Valley Forge Chorus held two open rehearsals in January. They advertised on Craigslist, within flyers posted throughout the community, in an extensive email campaign, and their public relations efforts paid off with the local media. See more here: http://bit.ly/1115mwV

Harmony of the Gorge Chorus distributed invitations during Christmas performances, and everywhere the members shopped in January. They promoted health benefits, sisterhood, singing, vocal lessons and more through flyers, word of mouth and the local media. Learn more about their efforts here: http://bit.ly/ZdHVB9 Coeur d’Alene Chorus opened its doors in January by promoting the Real Women slogan along with the health benefits of singing. The chorus performed for guests, and the director taught each of them a short song. The local news gladly helped publicize their event. See the coverage here: http://bit.ly/10lc1Br Greater Auckland Chorus paid to have ads put up in the female bathroom stalls at local shopping malls and movie theatres. The ads generated 11 guests who attended the chorus’ Global Open House event. Due to the success of the posters, they are likely to do it again throughout the year. See this effective poster and campaign plan here: http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/filesSite/GACArticle.pdf Region 13 created a membership/marketing resource for its members called Membership Recipes.

In an effort to scale down the Global Membership Drive materials and information offered in the Marketing Center and in the Real Guide to Growth handbook, Region 13 put together five recipes that condensed the Internationally supported principles. Take a look here: www.sweetadelineintl.org/filesSite/Reg13MembershipPlan.pdf Song O’Sky Chorus received two public proclamations from area community officials, which lent the chorus valuable public relations opportunities, including a commercial that was aired on a local radio station.

Hear this catchy commercial by clicking here: http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/filesSite/Song-O-Sky.mp3

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Eighty-nine percent of member responses agreed that International provides tools and resources that enable them to cohesively portray a vibrant image

Bay Area Showcase Chorus gave guests an opportunity to perform for family and friends, and was invited to join the chorus to compete with them in Honolulu. They also received some valuable local publicity. Read the news article here: http://bit.ly/16OZ4Er Blue Mountain Chorus used an effective video ad on their website and social media pages.

Check it out: http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/filesSite/BlueMountain.wmv Pacific Sound Chorus was rewarded by the Region 13 RMT with a $100 check to support the chapter’s significant membership recruitment efforts. They offered guests vocal education, one-month free dues, private vocal instruction (PVI), special coaching and the opportunity to perform during the Spring Show.

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Carousel Harmony Chorus advertised through social media, word of mouth and personal invitation, asking the community to join them at the Open House event held at the local mall.

Ozark Showcase Chorus offered four free months of chapter dues to guests who auditioned for their American Idol themed Open House event.

East City Sound Chorus offered a four-week Introduction to barbershop harmony program and used the Real Women logo on all of their promotional materials. Throughout the four weeks, the guests learned two songs, were instructed on the unique sound of barbershop harmony and were shown a variety of Sweet Adelines video performances. One member remarked, “I was a participant three years ago in their first workshop. Now look at me. I am president!”

Heart of Illinois Chorus participated in two Women’s Lifestyle Shows in the area and created a mailing list from the door prize entries. They were able to send out 250 postcards to women who like to sing.

The results of the January 2012 and 2013 Global Open House campaigns prove that when we join together, anything is possible. Let’s keep the momentum going strong in 2013 and make it the most harmonious year ever.

September Global Open House Based on all of the positive results and an overwhelming demand from the membership, the International Board agreed to hold another exciting organization-wide membership drive in September. Of course your chapter can have an open house anytime of the year, but we hope you will join our collaborative effort to open up our doors and our risers for guests throughout the month of September.

Eighty-three percent of member responses agreed that the Global campaign enhanced Sweet Adelines International’s brand and image

Look for an array of tools and plans on the website in the Members Only Marketing Center to help make your Global Open House a success! Remember, all of the work is done and ready for you to put into action! Resources, templates, applied membership plans, webinars and more are continuously added to the existing collection that spans the Members Only Marketing Center.

Nearly 60 percent of participants agreed that the Global campaign sparked positive morale within their region/chapter

Here are some reminders: • Real Guide to Growth handbook • Invite a Friend feature on the International website • The online Ad Builder where you can build customized ads with the International brand • Teach The World To Sing Promotional Videos on YouTube

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Region 1 • Springfield, Mass.

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First Place Boston Accent Ruth Berman (t) Cheryl Brusket (l) Julie Jeffrey (bt) Karen Rourke (bs) Chapter-at-Large, Coastline Show and MetroWest Harmony Choruses Score: 609 Songs: All The Way (Gentry); Red Hot Mama Medley (L. Wright)

First Place Coastline Show Gail Jencik, director Score: 646 54 on stage Songs: For All We Know (Briner); That’s Entertainment (R. Craig)

Second Place Full Throttle Chapter-at-Large, Coastline Show and Merrimack Valley Choruses Score: 584

Third Place Sound of New England Marion Devokaitis, director Score: 609

Third Place Insongniacs Chapter-at-Large and Coastline Show Chorus Score: 563

Second Place Harmony on the Sound Karen Sweeters, director Score: 620

Division A Millennium Magic Beth Paul, director Score: 545 17 on stage Songs: How Many Hearts Have You Broken? (Arns); All The Way (Gentry)

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Division AA Coastline Show Gail Jencik, director Score: 646 54 on stage Songs: For All We Know (Briner); That’s Entertainment (R. Craig) Most Improved Chorus Champlain Valley Cherie LaDuke, director Score: 395 (+15) Number of competing choruses: 15 Number of competing quartets: 19

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First Place First Place Great Lakes Firefly Sylvia Karpinsky, director Brenda M. Cameron (t Score: 636 Julia M. Beadle (l) 61 on stage Anne Norman (bt) Songs: Broadway Baby (Alsbury, Sellers); Marianne Gotz (bs) This Is My Night (Bergman) Chapter-at-Large and London Chorus Second Place Score: 604 London Songs: Bundle of Old Love Letters First place Julia Beadle, director (Backwell); Taking A Chance On Score: 602 Love (Giallombardo, Backwell) Third Place Shoreline Sound Diane Catellane, director Score: 591

Second Place Allure Chapters-at-Large and Spirit of Detroit Chorus Score: 598

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Division A Fenton Lakes Third Place Jeanne Lundberg, director STUDIO 4 Score: 575 Spirit of Detroit Chorus 25 on stage Score: 589 Division A Songs: Sweet Georgia Brown (Bescos); When You Wish Upon A Star (Bergman) Division AA London Julia Beadle, director Score: 602 57 on stage Songs: When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam’ (Backwell); My Foolish Heart (Backwell) Division AA PHOTOS BY: E.R. Lilley Photography

Most Improved Chorus Crossroads Harmony Jim Whitten, director Score: 486 (+93) Number of competing choruses: 17 Number of competing quartets: 12

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Region 3 • Grand Rapids, Mich.

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First Place PipeDreams Amy Brinkman (t) Renee Rieboldt (l) Linda O’Connell (bt) Bonnie Lee Fedyski (bs) Choral-Aires and Melodeers Choruses Score: 582 Songs: If I Were The Only Girl In The World (Pernert, Briner); Take Another Guess/You Can’t Pull The Wool Over My Eyes (Briner)

First Place Melodeers Jim Arns, director Score: 748 123 on stage Songs: In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning (Arns); Smile Medley (Arns) Second Place Grand Rapids Denise Van Dyken, director Score: 606

First place

Third Place Midwest Crossroad Tori Hicks, director Score: 598

Second Place UpSide Choral-Aires and Midwest Crossroad Choruses Score: 569 Division A Battle Creek Julie Zehnder, director Third Place Pizzazz Score: 506 Choral-Aires and Melodeers 23 on stage Choruses Score: 552 Songs: Once Upon A Time (Dale); Runnin’ Wild (Bergman)

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Division AA Grand Rapids Denise Van Dyken, director Score: 606 57on stage Songs: Stars Fell On Alabama (Coffman); Original Dixieland One-Step Dixie (R. Craig, Sellers) Most Improved Chorus Grand Rapids Denise Van Dyken, director Score: 606 (+29) Number of competing choruses: 10 Number of competing quartets: 8

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Region 4 • Covington, Ky. Chor us e s

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Third Place White River Sound Debbie Thistle, director Score: 570 Division A Voice of America Stacey St. John, director Score: 537 24 on stage Division A Songs: Where Does The Time Go? (Bergman); Angry/Bill Bailey Medley (Bergman)

Second Place In Sync Pride of Kentucky and White River Sound Choruses Score: 585

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First Place First Place Pride of Kentucky iTones Debbie Hite, director Kathleen Clough (t) Score: 692 Pamela Ross (l) 83 on stage Angela Thompson (bt) Songs: If Ever I Would Leave You (Hine); Fran Furtner (bs) Smile Medley (Hine) Capital City and Cincinnati Sound Choruses Second Place Score: 589 Capital City Songs: Takin’ A Chance On Love First place Bev Miller, director (Giallombardo); My Foolish Heart Score: 648 (Bescos)

Third Place Fourtune Scioto Valley Chorus Score: 581

Division AA White River Sound Debbie Thistle, director Score: 570 41 on stage Songs: Sweet Georgia Brown (Bescos); How Deep Is The Ocean? (Hopkins) Division AA PHOTOS BY: Jon B. Peterson Photography

Most Improved Chorus River Magic Beverly Miller, director Score: 504 (+43) Number of competing choruses: 15 Number of competing quartets: 19

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Region 5 • Springfield, Ill. Fe a t u r e d A r t i c l e

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First Place First Place Vivid Image St. Louis Harmony Kathy Schuth (t) Sandi Wright, director Susan McCann (l) Score: 608 Connie Moore (bt) 38 on stage Jacqueline Kreigh (bs) Songs: If I Had My Way (Harrington); Heart of Missouri and River Trolley Song (Wright) Blenders Choruses Score: 564 Second Place Songs: Deed I Do/Put Your Arms City Voices Around Me (Bescos); Auld Lang Jerilee Inghram, director Syne (Hine) Score: 580

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Second Place Spring Training River Blenders Chorus Score: 561

Third Place Vermillion Valley Show Kathryn Filipiak, director Score: 539

Third Place Voice 4 Voice Chapter-at-Large and River Blenders Chorus Score: 558

Division A Heart of Missouri Marjorie Friedmeyer, director Score: 515 25 on stage Division A Songs: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love/LOVE Medley (Bergman); You Are My Sunshine (Uhr) Division AA St. Louis Harmony Sandi Wright, director Score: 608 38 on stage Songs: If I Had My Way (Harrington); Trolley Song (Wright) Most Improved Chorus City Voices Jerilee Inghram, director Score: 580 (+6) Number of competing choruses: 10 Number of competing quartets: 18

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Region 6 • Prior Lake, Minn..

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Third Place Spirit of Harmony Judy Weipert, director Score: 566

Second Place S.A.S.S. Chapter-at-Large and City of Lakes Chorus Score: 601

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First Place First Place City of Lakes Keepin’ Outta Mischief Scott Kvigne, director Julie Balk (t) Score: 655 Karen Ann Dunn (l) 89 on stage Lisa Kvigne (bt) Songs: Heart Of My Heart (Graham); Judy Langer (bs) Oh, You Beautiful Doll (Giallombardo) City of Lakes Chorus Score: 612 Second Place Songs: If I Love Again (Waesche, Minnesota Valley Bergman); I Can’t Give You First place Carol Grimmer, director Anything But Love/L-O-V-E Score: 581 (Bergman)

Division A Spirit of Harmony Third Place Judy Weipert, director Medallion Chapter-at-Large, City of Lakes Score: 566 and Vallee de Croix Choruses 22 on stage Division A Songs: If I Give My Heart To You (Clancy); Score: 594 The Moment I Saw Your Eyes (Liles) Division AA Minnesota Valley Carol Grimmer, director Score: 581 32 on stage Songs: My Foolish Heart (Bescos); Bye, Bye Baby Medley (Schmidt)

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Most Improved Chorus Minnesota Valley Division AA Carol Grimmer, director Score: 581 (+52) Number of competing choruses: 15 Number of competing quartets: 12

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First Place Heat Michelle Hunget (t) Susan Ives (l) Sandi Wright (bt) Donna Kready (bs) Topeka Acappella Unlimited, Kansas City, St. Louis Harmony and Wichita Choruses Score: 636 Songs: Time After Time (D. Wright); You’re From Heaven And You’re Mine (D. Wright)

First Place Wichita Susan Ives and Melynnie Williams, directors Score: 604 • 66 on stage Songs: Oh, You Beautiful Doll (Giallombardo); Once Upon A Time (J. Dale) Second Place Wamego Dutch Mill Diana Duff and Cindy Orzel, directors Score: 584

First place

Second Place Fever!

Third Place Springfield Metro Chapter-at-Large, Acappella John Stockstill, director Omaha and Lincolnaire Choruses Score: 569 Score: 574 Third Place JAZZ! Sound of the Heartland and Springfield Metro Choruses Score: 572

Division A Springfield Metro John Stockstill, director Score: 569 • 28 on stage Songs: Once Upon A Time (Dale); Swanee (Waesche)

Division A

Division AA Wamego Dutch Mill Diana Duff and Cindy Orzel, directors Score: 584 • 41 on stage Songs: From The First Hello To The Last Goodbye (Arns); I Had Someone Else Before I Had You (Kraut) Division AA Most Improved Chorus Wichita Susan Ives and Melynnie Williams, directors Score: 604 (+60) Number of competing choruses: 16 Number of competing quartets: 19

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Region 8 • Colorado Springs, Colo.

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First Place First Place Skyline Ruby Blue Vickie Maybury, director Cindy Wadsley (t) Score: 683 Heather Tavel (l) 114 on stage Rebecca Richards (bt) Songs: Somewhere Over The Rainbow Jocelyn Nguyen (bs) (Hine); My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms Skyline Chorus (D. Wright, REMIX) Score: 610 Songs: Two Tickets To Georgia/ Second Place Sentimental Gentleman From First place High Country Georgia (Volk); If I Had The Last Jacque Reinig, director Dream (Liles, Jamison) Score: 522 Second Place Third Place Bonfire Velvet Hills Chorus A Cappella Showcase Score: 580 Judy Vidal, director Score: 515 Third Place Bounce Division A A Cappella Showcase Chapter-at-Large and Mountain Judy Vidal, director Jubilee Chorus Score: 515 Score: 575 Division A 23 on stage Songs: You Don’t Know Me (Clancy); Lulu’s Back In Town (Vidal) Division AA High Country Jacque Reinig, director Score: 522 41 on stage Songs: You’ll Never Know (Bergman); Who Do You Think You’re Fooling/I’m Nobody’s Fool (Diamond)

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Division AA Most Improved Chorus Grand Mesa Tammy Schler, director Score: 471 (+40) Number of competing choruses: 15 Number of competing quartets: 12

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First Place Quatro Susie Ellis (t) Julie Vaughn (l) Lana Owens (bt) Joyce Tam (bs) Spirit of the Gulf and Toast of Tampa Show Choruses Score: 600 Songs: Goody Goodbye (Avener); All The Way (Gentry)

First Place Spirit of the Gulf Michael Slamka, director Score: 655 122 on stage Songs: Goodnight Little Soldier (Shook, Breidert, Twardosky); There’s Something About A Soldier (Giallombardo)

Second Place Ladybug Gulf to Bay and Toast of Tampa Show Choruses Score: 570 Third Place 4joy Chapter-at-Large, Jacksonville Harmony and Toast of Tampa Show Choruses Score: 547

Second Place Jacksonville Harmony Ann Gooch, director Score: 608 Third Place O-Town Sound Kay Webb, director Score: 566 Division A Hilton Head Shore Notes Beth Green, director Score: 518 25 on stage Songs: The Moment I Saw Your Eyes (Liles); If I Give My Heart To You (Clancy) Division AA Jacksonville Harmony Ann Gooch, director Score: 608 55 on stage Songs: There Used To Be A Ballpark (Twardosky); You’ve Gotta Have Heart (L. Wright) Most Improved Chorus O-Town Sound Kay Webb, director Score: 566 (+32) Number of competing choruses: 17 Number of competing quartets: 14

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Region 10 • Houston, Texas Ch oruse s

Second Place Alamo Metro Mary Ann Wydra, director Score: 615 Third Place Texas Harmony Darlene Rogers, director Score: 603

Division AA Alamo Metro Mary Ann Wydra, director Score: 615 56 on stage Songs: It’s Time To Sing Sweet Adeline Again (Wydra); They Never Told Me (Wydra)

Division A

First Place 5 O’clock Somewhere!

Caroline Hudler (t) Sheri Strawther (l) Pamela Parish (bt) Kerri Mauney (bs) Spirit of Southeast Texas and The Woodlands Show Choruses Score: 609 Songs: I’m Alone Because I Love You (Beck); Cry Baby (Hill, Bergman) Second Place Soundwise Alamo Metro and The Woodlands Show Choruses Score: 608

Most Improved Chorus A Cappella Unlimited Kathryn Dane and Grant Goulding, director Score: 547 (+48)

Number of competing choruses: 17 • Number of competing quartets: 14

First place

Quar te ts

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First Place The Woodlands Show Betty Clipman, director Score: 663 61 on stage Songs: All Bound Round (Avener, Arns); Time After Time (Arns)

Division A A Cappella Unlimited Kathryn Dane and Grant Goulding, directors Score: 547 • 25 on stage Songs: After You’ve Gone (Gray); Yesterday I Heard The Rain (Graham)

Third Place Essence Alamo Metro Chorus Score: 597

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First Place First Place Sirens Celebrity City Melissa R. Hockenberger (t) Catherine Sturm, director Timari A. Thorstenson (l) Score: 595 Debra Hockenberger (bt) 60 on stage Lisa A. Kneebone (bs) Songs: At Last (Bergman); Let’s Burn Chapter-at-Large and Up The Town (Nasto) Santa Monica Chorus Score: 599 Second Place Songs: I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Santa Monica Falling (Bergman); Once Upon Alan Gordon, director A Time (Dale) Score: 586 Second Place Third Place Cachet Verdugo Hills Tammy Ragsdale, director Chapter-at-Large, Agoura Hills, Score: 576 Santa Monica and Verdugo Hills Choruses Division A Score: 575 Voices United Dede Nibler, director Third Place Score: 519 Cheers!

28 on stage Chapter-at-Large and Harborlites Chorus Songs: I Never Meant To Fall In Love Score: 566 (Liles); Original Dixieland One Step (Volk)

First place

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Division AA Celebrity City Catherine Sturm, director Score: 595 60 on stage Songs: At Last (Bergman); Let’s Burn Up The Town (Nasto) Most Improved Chorus Division AA RiverOaks Theresa Schonbach, director Score: 440 (+76) Number of competing choruses: 13 Number of competing quartets: 21

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Region 12 • Reno, Nev. Quar te ts

First Place Mission Valley Angela Suraci, director Score: 620 64 on stage Songs: I Never Meant To Fall In Love (Liles); My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms Medley (D. Wright)

First Place FlipSide Sandra Cope (t) Kathy Pecsar (l) Margaret Leggett (bt) Merriann Cree (bs) Delta Harmony Xpress, Sacramento Valley and Song of Sonoma Choruses Score: 590 Songs: Each Time I Fall In Love (Lobaugh); Johnny Medley (Bergman)

Second Place Sacramento Valley Lynne Erickson, director Score: 610 Third Place Pacific Empire Patricia Pennycook, director Score: 595

Division A California HEAT Anita Main, director Score: 456 Division A 25 on stage Songs: If I Give My Heart To You (Clancy); I Can’t Recall His Name (Liles)

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Second Place PDQ Chapter-at-Large and Pacific Empire Chorus Score: 572

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Third Place Canzonet Bay Area Showcase, Diablo Vista and Mission Valley Choruses Score: 564

Division AA Pacific Empire Patricia Pennycook, director Score: 595 51 on stage Songs: Sweet Georgia Brown (Avener); You’re Breaking In A New Heart (Bescos) Most Improved Chorus High Desert Harmony Monica Robb, director Score: 421 (+73) Number of competing choruses: 15 Number of competing quartets: 18

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Region 13 • Spokane, Wash.

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First Place Yahtzee Tami Kamp (t) Julie Hagstrom (l) Megan Hagstrom (bt) Susan Kegley (bs) Pacific Sound Chorus Score: 635 Songs: I Didn’t Want To Fall (Liles); If You Love Me, Really Love Me (Bergman)

First Place Pacific Sound Susan Kegley, director Score: 605 65 on stage Songs: Lulu’s Back In Town (Arns); If I Give My Heart To You (Clancy)

Second Place Lip Sync Chapter-at-Large, Jet Cities and Peach Arch Choruses Score: 600 Third Place Pepper Chapter-at-Large and Spirit of Spokane Chorus Score: 571

Second Place a cappella Joy Nikki Blackmer, director Score:590

First place

Third Place Jet Cities Teresa McCafferty, director Score: 569 Division A Rolling Hills Lucy Heinkel, director Score: 516 27 on stage Songs: When I Leave The World Behind (Bescos); Johnny Medley (Bergman)

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Division AA a cappella Joy Nikki Blackmer, director Score: 590 42 on stage Songs: At Last (Bergman); Come Fly With Me (Keller, Payne) Most Improved Chorus Inland Harmony Becky Pope, director Score: 495 (+95) Number of competing choruses: 13 Number of competing quartets: 23

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Region 14 • Winston-Salem, N.C. Quar te ts

First Place Greater Richmond Erin Odell, director Score: 604 74 on stage Songs: Love Me Tender (Wright); Get Me To The Church On Time (Bergman)

First Place Shades of Jade Meghan Brueggemann (t) Heather Krones (l) Erin Odell (bt) Kasey Cox (bs) City Voices, Greater Richmond and St. Louis Harmony Choruses Score: 602 Songs: Good Luck Charm (Dale); Flying Sinatra Medley (Payne)

Second Place Greenville in Harmony Nancy Field, director Score: 601 Third Place Carolina Style Jean Danaher, director Score: 599

Division A Carolina Harmony Susie Smith, director Score: 573 Division A 28 on stage Songs: Don’t Tell Me The Same Things Over Again/Lies Medley (Bescos); Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Hine)

Second Place Fire & Ice Virginia Coast Chorus Score: 602

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Third Place Sound Advice Vienna-Falls Chorus Score: 591

Division AA Carolina Style Jean Danaher, director Score: 599 Songs: How Many Hearts Have You Broken? (Arns); Time After Time (Arns) Division AA PHOTOS BY: Jon B. Peterson Photography

Most Improved Chorus Golden Triad Marcia O’Neil, director Score: 543 (+29) Number of competing choruses: 16 Number of competing quartets: 19

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Region 15 • Philadelphia, Pa. Fe a t u r e d A r t i c l e

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First Place First Place Drive!

Liberty Oak Diane Duff (t) Katie Blackwood, director Carol Beckmann (l) Score: 640 Patricia Danner (bt) 74 on stage Helen Kogut (bs) Songs: My Foolish Heart (Bescos); Greater Nassau, Hickory Tree After You’ve Gone (R. Craig) and Jersey Sound Choruses Score: 611 Second Place Songs: My Mother’s Rocking Chair Harmony Celebration (Alsbury); Jazz Baby (Giallombardo) Scott Brannon, director Score: 627 Second Place Harmonics Third Place Greater Nassau and Harmony Hickory Tree Celebration Choruses Carolyn Schmidt, director Score: 584 Score: 607 Third Place Just 4 (Kicks) Harmony Celebration Chorus Score: 568

Division A Long Island Sound Peggy DiSunno, director Score: 476 29 on stage Songs: At Last (Bergman); Bye, Bye Blackbird (L. Wright)

First place

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Division AA Harmony Celebration Scott Brannon, director Score: 627 52 on stage Songs: Danny Boy (R. Craig); Strike Up The Band (D. Wright) Most Improved Chorus Liberty Oak Katie Blackwood, director Score: 640 (+14) Number of competing choruses: 12 Number of competing quartets: 18

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Region 16 • Syracuse, N.Y. Quar te ts

First Place Buffalo Gateway Diane Porsch, director Score: 660 • 84 on stage Songs: My Foolish Heart (Bescos); Can’t Give You Anything But Love Medley (Bergman)

First Place One Track Mind Nancy Faddegon (t) Kim Higdon (l) Jennifer Hunter (bt) Leigh Dorman (bs) River Valley and Saratoga Soundtrack Choruses Score: 615 Songs: If You Love Me, Really Love Me (Bergman); Original Dixieland One Step (Volk)

Second Place Spirit of Syracuse First place Kay Crawford, director Score: 613 Third Place Circle of Harmony Barbara Hodge, director Score: 585

Second Place Running With Scissors Chapter-at-Large, Buffalo Gateway, Orangeville and Rochester Choruses Score: 604

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Division A Lake Effect Harmony Susan Gentile and Third Place Sonne Durphy, directors En Route Score: 524 • 26 on stage Circle of Harmony Chorus Division A Songs: If I Give My Heart To You (Clancy); Score: 603 I’ve Got A Feeling I’m Falling Medley (Bergman) Division AA Greater Kingston Paula Allen and Nancy Watson, directors Score: 585 • 51 on stage Songs: All The Way (Gentry); Going, Going, Gone (Alsbury) Division AA PHOTOS BY: Jon B. Peterson Photography

Most Improved Chorus Image City Sound Kathy Wakeman, director Score: 473 (+85) Number of competing choruses: 28 Number of competing quartets: 27

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First Place First Place Naturally Greater Cleveland Kathy Fazekas (t) Jean Flinn, director Amy Ringley (l) Score: 616 Beth Ann Gutowski (bt) 56 on stage Maria Christian (bs) Songs: When I Lost You (Uhr); Greater Cleveland, Shoreline How Many Hearts Have You Broken?

Sound and Spirit of Detroit (Arns) Choruses Score: 609 Second Place First place Songs: Laughing On The Outside Greater Harmony (Lund); Button Up Your Overcoat Charles May, director (Gentry) Score: 563 Second Place Fusion Lake Ridge, Shoreline Sound and Spirit of Detroit Score: 561 Third Place TGIF City of Flags and Greater Cleveland Choruses Score: 533

Third Place Sounds of Pittsburgh David Wallace, director Score: 562 Division A Lake Ridge Jill Spriestersbach, director Score: 501 28 on stage Songs: Whatever Happened To The Old Songs? (Oliver); Old Songs, New Friends (Uhr) Division AA Greater Cleveland Jean Flinn, director Score: 616 56 on stage Songs: When I Lost You (Uhr); How Many Hearts Have You Broken?

(Arns) Most Improved Chorus River Raisin Dawn Seigneur, director Score: 451 (+18) Number of competing choruses: 17 Number of competing quartets: 11

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Region 19 • Ocean City, Md. Chor us e s

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First Place First Place Upper Chesapeake GQ Rick Taylor, director Amanda McNutt (t) Score: 616 Katie Gillis (l) 42 on stage Alexandra Hauger (bt) Songs: Time After Time (Arns); Angry/Bill Katie MacDonald (bs) Bailey Medley (Bergman) Chapter-at-Large and Dundalk Chorus Second Place Score: 599 Greater Harrisburg Songs: When I Lost You (Tramack); First place Claire Domenick, director ‘Deed I Do (A. Dale) Score: 614 Second Place Third Place Euphonix Dundalk Chapter-at-Large, Chesapeake Shirley Coffman, director Harmony, Greater Harrisburg and Score: 586 Philadelphia Freedom Choruses Score: 593 Division A Third Place Altoona Mixology Ann George, director Greater Harrisburg, Harbor City Score: 556 Music Company, Jersey Sound 28 on stage and Pride of Baltimore Choruses Division A Songs: Get Me To The Church On Time Score: 557 (Bergman); I Never Meant To Fall In Love (Lyles) Division AA Upper Chesapeake Rick Taylor, director Score: 616 42 on stage Songs: Time After Time (Arns); Angry/Bill Bailey Medley (Bergman) Division AA PHOTOS BY: Freyvogel Photography

Most Improved Chorus Arundelair Maggie Butts, director Score: 510 (+59) Number of competing choruses: 23 Number of competing quartets: 16

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Region 21 • Pasadena, Calif.

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First Place ConTempo Margaret Rochon (t) Dayle Ann Cook (l) Deborah Shipman (bt) Karen Jo Meade (bs) Chapter-at-Large and Tucson Desert Harmony Chorus Score: 612 Songs: Angry/Bill Bailey Medley (Bergman); Crying Myself To Sleep (Bergman)

First Place Harborlites Pamela Pieson, director Score: 710 94 on stage Songs: Love Me And The World Is Mine (D. Wright); Sweet Georgia Brown (Bescos)

Second Place Ms. Cellanous Golden Sands, Harborlites and Scottsdale Choruses Score: 583 Third Place Pandemonium San Diego, Scottsdale, Harborlites and Route 66 Choruses Score: 571

Second Place Tucson Desert Harmony Karen Meade, director Score: 608

First place

Third Place Honolulu Blend Show Bonnie McKibben, director Score: 581 Division A Honolulu Blend Show

Bonnie McKibben, director Score: 581 23 on stage Songs: Jazz Came Up The River (Bergman); At Last (Bergman)

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Division AA Tucson Desert Harmony Karen Meade, director Score: 608 55 on stage Songs: Bye, Bye Blackbird/Bye, Bye Baby Medley (L. Wright); If I Ruled The World (R. Craig, Bergman) Most Improved Chorus Route 66 Sound Andrea Rostel and Sandra Squires, directors Score: 536 (+27) Number of competing choruses: 13 Number of competing quartets: 10

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Region 22 • Appleton, Wis. Quar te ts

First Place River City Sound Joan Boutilier, director Score: 640 44 on stage Songs: My Buddy (Liles); Cry Baby (Hill, Bergman)

First Place Epix Rochelle Hackman (t) Michelle Brantman (l) Cricky Dietrich (bt) Cathie Zimmerman (bs) Crosstown Harmony and Milwaukee Showcase Choruses Score: 606 Songs: Angry/Bill Bailey Medley (Bergman); Lover Come Back To Me (Bergman)

Second Place Crosstown Harmony First place Lynda Keever, director Score: 611 Third Place Yahara River Jennifer Johnson, director Score: 577

Second Place

By Request Yahara River Chorus Score: 545

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Division A Third Place Cedar Harmony Noted Carol Anhalt, director Chapter-at-Large, Melodeers and Score: 552 Milwaukee Showcase Choruses 30 on stage Score: 515 Division A Songs: There’ll Be Some Changes Made/ So Long Dearie Medley (Bergman); Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Bescos) Division AA River City Sound Joan Boutilier, director Score: 640 44 on stage Songs: My Buddy (Liles); Cry Baby (Hill, Bergman)

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Division AA Most Improved Chorus Racine Sweet Adelines Jarmela Speta, director Score: 504 (+45) Number of competing choruses: 15 Number of competing quartets: 15

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Region 23 • Chattanooga, Tenn.

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First Place First Place Dream Metro Nashville Stacy Llamazales (t) Kim Wonders, director Jennifer Cooke (l) Score: 664 Robin Williams (bt) 45 on stage Susan Milani (bs) Songs: Time After Time (Arns); Chapter-at-Large, Scenic City When the Red, Red Robin Comes and TuneTown Show Choruses Bob-Bob-Bobbin’ Along (Volk) Score: 589 Songs: Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Butler); Second Place There Goes My Heart Song of Atlanta (Bergman, Steinkamp) Becki Hine, director Score: 645 Second Place Last Minute Third Place Chapter-at-Large and K-Town Sound Show TuneTown Show Chorus Kellie Phifer, director Score: 570 Score: 576 Third Place BINGO! Song of Atlanta and TuneTown Show Choruses Score: 525

Division A Harmony Hills Natalie Allen, director Score: 509 22 on stage Songs: I Will Love You Til The End Of Time (Baker); The Moment I Saw Your Eyes (Liles) Division AA Metro Nashville Kim Wonders, director Score: 664 45 on stage Songs: Time After Time (Arns); When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin’ Along (Volk) Most Improved Chorus K-Town Sound Show Kellie Phifer, director Score: 576 Number of competing choruses: 12 Number of competing quartets: 13

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First Place First Place Pride of Portland Rogue Ryan Heller, director Lisa Shortridge (t) Score: 701 Martha Segura (l) 87 on stage Elizabeth Dyer (bt) Songs: Sonny Boy (Bergman, Bescos); Susan Riemer (bs) Floatin’ Down To Cotton Town Chapter-at-Large and Southern (D. Wright) Oregon Sound Chorus Score: 612 Second Place Songs: All The Way (Gentry); First place Oregon Spirit Basin Street Blues (Beck) Kathy Scheel, director Score: 590 Second Place Reprise Third Place Chapter-at-Large #13, Cascade Five Valley Harmony and Olympia Choruses Candace Johnson, director Score: 580 Score: 584 Third Place Division A The Brass Ring Spirit of Boise Chapter-at-Large and Pride of Joanna Moyer, director Portland Chorus Score: 513 Score: 562 Division A 21 on stage Songs: Tumbled Down Shack in Athlone (R. Craig); You Gotta Know (Bergman) Division AA Oregon Spirit Kathy Scheel, director Score: 590 35 on stage Songs: After We’re Gone (Bergman, L. Wright); Time After Time (Arns) Division AA PHOTOS BY: E.R. Lilley Photography

Most Improved Chorus Columbia River Ken Hughes, director Score: 472 (+44) Number of competing choruses: 19 Number of competing quartets: 25

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First Place RIO! Patty C. Friedemann (t) Pam Lauffer (l) Mary K. Rhea (bt) Melynnie M. Williams (bs) O.K. City, Rich-Tone, Talk of Tulsa and Wichita Choruses Score: 602 Songs: If I Give My Heart To You (Clancy); Jazz Me Blues (Minihane)

First Place Rich-Tone Dale Syverson, director Score: 748 101 on stage Songs: All The Way (Graham); Hot Town Strutter’s Ball (Minshall)

Second Place Major Trouble Rich-Tone Chorus Score: 571 Third Place Breakaway Queen City Sound and Rich-Tone Choruses Score: 554

Second Place O.K. City Mary Rhea, director Score: 664 Third Place Top of the Rock Peggy Gram and Kelly Causey, directors Score: 604 Division A Queen City Sound Pat Vozza, director Score: 533 20 on stage Songs: I Never Meant To Fall In Love (Liles); It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie (D. Wright) Division AA Top of the Rock Peggy Gram and Kelly Causey, directors Score: 604 50 on stage Songs: At Last (Bergman); My Honey’s Lovin Arms (D. Wright) Most Improved Chorus Note-ably North Texas Melissa Purdin, director Score: 380 (+22) Number of competing choruses: 20 Number of competing quartets: 17

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Region 26 • Surrey, B.C. Canada Quar t ets

First Place Westcoast Harmony Anne Marteniuk, director Score: 616 48 on stage Songs: Are You Lonesome Tonight?

(Minshall, Graham); Doctor Jazz Medley (Minshall, Coffman) Second Place City of Gardens Julie Smith, director Score: 612

First Place Easy Street Julie Smith (t) Danna Woody (l) Laurie Attard (bt) Shayna Steeves (bs) City of Gardens and Westcoast Harmony Choruses Score: 596 Songs: How Many Hearts Have You Broken? (Arns); If We Can’t Be The Same Old Sweethearts (Giallombardo)

Third Place Gateway Lisa Greenough-McNeil, director Score: 598

Second Place Fireworks!

Lions Gate and Westcoast Harmony Choruses Score: 591

Division A Vocal Motion!

Caroline Richards, director Division A Score: 545 22 on stage Songs: I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine (Bergman); I Never Meant To Fall In Love (Lyles)

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Third Place Right Now Lions Gate Chorus Score: 556

Division AA Westcoast Harmony Anne Marteniuk, director Score: 616 48 on stage Songs: Are You Lonesome Tonight?

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Most Improved Chorus Alberta Heartland Lisa Hunszinger, director Score: 587 (+71) Number of competing choruses: 14 Number of competing quartets: 10

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First Place Fortuity Veryan Zimber (t) Gemma Lianne Netherton-Hind (l) Sarah Netherton (bt) Eleanor Blackeby (bs) Chapter-at-Large, Celtic Chords and Lace City Choruses Score: 656 Songs: Flirty Eyes (Hill, Bergman); Once Upon A Time (Dale)

First Place Forth Valley David Sangster, director Score: 656 89 on stage Songs: From The First Hello To The Last Goodbye (Arns); Cry Baby (Hill, Bergman)

Second Place Echo Heartbeat UK and Spinnaker Choruses Score: 614

Third Place Heartbeat UK Nancy Kelsall, director Score: 625

Third Place The Late Show Viva Acappella Chorus Score: 591

Second Place DaleDiva Ally Law, director Score: 634

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Division A Vocal Dimension Valerie Taylor, director Score: 607 27 on stage Division A Songs: I’ll Never Say ‘Never Again’ Again (Gentry); My Romance (Minshall) Division AA Spinnaker Jenny Savory, director Score: 574 60 on stage Songs: At Last (Bergman); I Love Jazz (D. Wright) Most Improved Chorus Cheshire A Cappella Wally Saunders and Angela Lewis, directors Score: 514 (+78) Number of competing choruses: 23 Number of competing quartets: 22

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Region 32 • Karlstad, Sweden Quar t ets

First Place Alba Show Mikael Wikstrom, directors Score: 651 39 on stage Songs: My Foolish Heart (Bescos, Lewis, Hagerman); I’ve Got A Feeling I’m Falling (Bergman)

First Place Frank Maria Von Konow (t) Gunilla Hellström (l) Ewa Karlsson (bt) Jenny Olivestedt (bs) Stockholm City Voices Score: 608 Songs: My Foolish Heart (Bescos, Hagerman, Calland); I’ve Got A Feeling I’m Falling (Bergman)

Second Place Pearls of The Sound Anna Rosenberg, director Score: 622 Third Place Harmony Heights Mari Pettersson, director Score: 618

Second Place KrÄm Stockholm City Voices Chorus Score: 608

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Third Place Sway Division A Chapter-at-Large, Rönninge Malmö Limelight Show and Stockholm Starlight Camilla Hallström Andersson, Choruses Sara Söderström, directors Score: 589 Division A Score: 529 27 on stage Songs: If You Love Me, Really Love Me (Bergman); Red Hot (Bergman)

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Division AA Alba Show Mikael Wikstrom, directors Score: 651 39 on stage Songs: My Foolish Heart (Bescos, Lewis, Hagerman); I’ve Got A Feeling I’m Falling (Bergman) Most Improved Chorus Snowflake Singers Kristina Lejon, director Score: 604 (+48) Number of competing choruses: 15 Number of competing quartets: 19

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First Place Hi-Jinx Joanne Oosterhoff (t) Rebecca Mutton (l) Kirsten Richardson (bt) Lindsey Dyer (bs) A Cappella West Chorus Score: 610 Songs: Doctor Jazz Medley (Coffman, Lund); At Last (Bergman)

First Place Perth Harmony Carol Macintyre, director Score: 622 92 on stage Songs: Time After Time (Arns); Original Dixieland One Step (Volk)

Second Place Sista Northern Beaches Chorus Score: 576 Third Place Bewitched Vocalescence Chorus Score: 573

Second Place A Cappella West First place Lindsey Dyer and Joanne Oosterhoff, directors Score: 582 Third Place Bathurst Panorama Tracey Cam, director Score: 580 Division A Vocalescence Andrew Howson, director Score: 525 16 on stage Division A Songs: My Romance (R. Craig, Hibler); Cuddle Up A Little Closer (Hine) Division AA Bathurst Panorama Tracey Cam, director Score: 580 42 on stage Songs: Once Upon A Time (Dale); I’ve Got A Feeling I’m Falling (Bergman) Most Improved Chorus Division AA A Cappella West Lindsey Dyer and PHOTOS BY: Photomakers; photography by Tony McKendrick Joanne Oosterhoff, directors Score: 582 (+28) Number of competing choruses: 12 Number of competing quartets: 24

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Region 35 • Queenstown, New Zealand Q uar tets

First Place Wellington City David Brooks, director Score: 623 • 52 on stage Songs: He Was There (Bergman); South Rampart Street Parade (D. Wright)

First Place Sweet Life!

Patricia Cooke (t) Toni Griffin (l) Dina Wickers (bt) Fiona Lonquet-Higgins (bs) Chapter-at-Large and Christchurch City Chorus Score: 605 Songs: All Bound Round (Avener); My Buddy (Liles)

Second Place Faultline Carolyn Currington, director First place Score: 524 Third Place Sounds of Hawkes Bay Margot Danks and Lana Morgan, directors Score: 520 Division A Faultline Carolyn Currington, director Score: 524 • 29 on stage Division A Songs: My Romance (Minshall); I Can’t Give You Anything But Love/ L-O-V-E Medley (Bergman)

Second Place The Fource Chapter-at-Large Score: 596

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Third Place Key Note Christchurch City Chorus Score: 588

Division AA Wellington City David Brooks, director Score: 623 • 52 on stage Songs: He Was There (Bergman); South Rampart Street Parade (D. Wright) Division AA PHOTOS BY: Dan Childs

Most Improved Chorus Faultline Carolyn Currington, director Score: 524 (+20) Number of competing choruses: 10 Number of competing quartets: 21

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Region 2 Allure Staci Slamka (t) Sandy Worswick (l) Dodie LaMarte (bt) Kathryn Green (bs) Chapter-at-Large and Spirit of Detroit Chorus Score: 598 Songs: How Many Hearts Have You Broken?/Them There Eyes Medley (Graham); If You Love Me, Really Love Me (Bergman)

Region 6 S.A.S.S. Barbara Graham (t) Mauri Deer (l) Marni Fox (bt) Amanda Clements (bs) Chapter-at-Large and City of Lakes Chorus Score: 601 Songs: Lover Come Back To Me (Giallombardo); I Had The Craziest Dream (Graham)

Region 10 Region 10 Essence SoundWise Melissa Trevino (t) Caitlyn Griffith (t) Jane Schlinke (l) Candice Griffith (l) Denise Fly (bt) Kerry Parker (bt) Ronda Michele Perez (bs) Tianna Coffey (bs) Alamo Metro and The WoodAlamo Metro Chorus lands Show Choruses Score: 597 Score: 608 Songs: Trolley Song (R. Songs: Don’t Break The Heart Craig); That Loves You (Volk); Last All The Way (Gentry) Night Was The End Of The World (Papageorge)

Region 13 Lip Sync Sylvia Posso (t) Katy Hawley (l) Anna Chamberlain (bt) Lisa Hood (bs) Chapter-at-Large, Jet Cities and Peace Arch Choruses Score: 600 Songs: Roses Of Yesterday (Bergman); How Many Hearts Have You Broken? (Arns)

Region 14 Fire & Ice Denise Martin (t) Bettina McDougal (l) Jamie Stafford (bt) Debbie Meadows (bs) Virginia Chorus Score: 602 Songs: Love Medley (Bergman); Once Upon A Time (Dale)

Region 16 Running with Scissors Molly Rowland (t) Claire McMartin (l) Sue Read Melvin (bt) Leila Brown (bs) Chapter-at-Large, Buffalo Gateway, Orangeville and Rochester Choruses Score: 604 Songs: You Made Me Love You (Bergman); I’ve Lost All My Love For You (King)

Region 16 En Route Carol Shields (t) Barbara Hodge (l) Margaret Fielding (bt) Katherine Withnell (bs) Circle of Harmony Chorus Score: 603 Songs: Sweet Adeline (Giallombardo); I Love A Piano (Bescos)

Region 31 Echo Karen Riley (t) Emma Shanks (l) Beckie Puncher (bt) Claire Heighway (bs) Heartbeat UK and Spinnaker Choruses Score: 614 Songs: If I Give My Heart To You (Clancy); Don’t Break The Heart That Loves You (Volk)

Region 32 KrÄm Kristina Bruce (t) Anne Redmo (l) Rosmarie Preuss (bt) Anna Malmros (bs) Stockholm Starlight Chorus Score: 608 Songs: Ballin’ The Jack (D. Wright); Back In The Old Routine (R. Craig)

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Region 15 Harmony Celebration Scott Brannon, director Score: 627 • 52 on stage Songs: Danny Boy (R. Craig); Strike Up The Band (D. Wright)

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Region 4 Capital City Bev Miller, director Score: 648 • 68 on stage Songs: Time After Time (Arns); Yes Sir, That’s My Baby (D. Wright)

Region 23 Song of Atlanta Becki Hine, director Score: 645 • 79 on stage Songs: Coney Island Washboard (Hine); Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Hine)

Region 25 O.K. City Mary Rhea, director Score: 664 • 83 on stage Songs: Shanghai (Why Did I Tell You I Was Going To) (Bergman); Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Giallombardo)

Region 32 Pearls of The Sound Anna Rosenberg, director Score: 622 • 40 on stage Songs: Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Bescos, Marron); I’ll Never Say ‘Never Again’ Again (Gentry, Marron)

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B+ (592) and Above Choruses Sweet Adelines International recognizes the accomplishments of all competing choruses, and congratulates those scoring B+ and above in the 2013 regional competitions. They are listed here alphabetically, followed by region number. Choruses that scored 700 points or higher are noted with an asterisk after the region number.

Aberdeen Chorus, #31 Alamo Metro Chorus, #10 Alba Show Chorus, #32 Buffalo Gateway Chorus, #16 Capital City Chorus, #4 Carolina Style Chorus, #14 Celebrity City Chorus, #11 City of Gardens Chorus, #26 City of Lakes Chorus, #6 Coastline Show Chorus, #1 Crosstown Harmony Chorus, #22 DaleDiva Chorus, #31 Forth Valley Chorus, #31 Gateway Chorus, #26 Grand Rapids Chorus, #3 Great Lakes Chorus, #2 Greater Cleveland Chorus, #17 Greater Harrisburg Chorus, #19 Greater Richmond Chorus, #14 Greenville in Harmony Chorus, #14 Harborlites Chorus, #21*

Harmony Celebration Chorus, #15 Harmony Heights Chorus, #32 Harmony on the Sound Chorus, #1 Heartbeat UK Chorus, #31 Hickory Tree Chorus, #15 Jacksonville Harmony Chorus, #9 Lace City Chorus, #31 Liberty Oak Chorus, #15 London Chorus, #2 Melodeers Chorus, #3* Metro Nashville Chorus, #23 Midwest Crossroad Chorus, #3 Mission Valley Chorus, #12 O.K. City Chorus, #25 Pacific Empire Chorus, #12 Pacific Sound Chorus, #13 Pearls of The Sound Chorus, #32 Perth Harmony Chorus, #34 Phoenix Chorus, #31 Pride of Kentucky Chorus, #4 Pride of Portland Chorus, #24*

Rich-Tone Chorus, #25* River City Sound Chorus, #22 Sacramento Valley Chorus, #12 Skyline Chorus, #8 Snowflake Singers, #32 Song of Atlanta Chorus, #23 Sound of New England Chorus, #1 Spirit of Syracuse Chorus, #16 Spirit of the Gulf Chorus, #9 St. Louis Harmony Chorus, #5 Texas Harmony Chorus, #10 The Woodlands Show Chorus, #10 Top of the Rock Chorus, #25 Tucson Desert Harmony Chorus, #21 Upper Chesapeake Chorus, #19 Vocal Dimension Chorus, #31 Wellington City Chorus, #35 Westcoast Harmony Chorus, #26 Wichita Chorus, #7

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By Lynnell Diamond, Toast of Tampa Show Chorus, Region 9 Marie Johnson wrote and arranged the sassy uptune I’m The One You’re Lookin’ For back in the 1980s, and it has been a popular Barbershop competition selection ever since. It’s known for clever lyric lines like, “Take me in your arms, and brother, soon you’ll take me home to mother.”

oung singers are in the spotlight this month, with a new Competition Folio for Young Women in Harmony (YWIH) available now from Sweet Adelines International Sales. Each of the eight arrangements in the folio are formatted for tenor, lead, baritone and bass and for soprano I, soprano II, alto I and alto II. Learning notes by Lori Lyford and learning media by Jennifer Cooke are included with each folio, and single copies of each arrangement are also available on our website (sweetadelineintl.org). All of the arrangements are suitable for competition. They are arranged by degree of difficulty, from easiest to most challenging.

How could we ever forget Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow in one of the most-loved movies of all time, “The Wizard of Oz”? Our YWIH version was arranged by the legendary Joni Bescos, MMA, and captures all of the longing for home that these beautiful lyrics and melody describe.

Too Young is a beautiful love song first published in 1951 and made famous by Nat King Cole. This arrangement by Master Music Arranger Sylvia Alsbury has been a favorite of adult Sweet Adelines for many years for competition and show performances.

Everyone loves the musical “Chicago” and its famous uptune, Razzle Dazzle, sung by Richard Gere in the movie version. This YWIH arrangement by CMA Jo Lund captures all of the splendiferous flim-flam flummox of this exciting Broadway show-stealing song.

Side By Side is a happy, breezy uptune arranged for YWIH by Ruth Emley for beginning young singers. The song, written in 1927, has been recorded by Kay Starr, Frankie Laine, Pat Boone, Duke Ellington, Paul Anka, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Dean Martin and many others.

Will It Be Me, describing the singer’s longing for success as a performer, is composed and arranged by MMA Lynnell Diamond.

Although it is more challenging than the other arrangements in the folio, strong Barbershop Harmony makes it a solid competition choice for singers of all ages.

A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes, from the Walt Disney movie “Cinderella,” will always be a favorite for young women looking to the future and dreaming of the life they will live. Lorraine Rochefort, CMA, composed a lovely verse to set the stage for her arrangement of this beautiful melody.

No one could feel sad When The Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along, and CMA Dot Calvin’s peppy arrangement makes everyone want to sing along. This arrangement has been popular with adult Sweet Adelines for many years, and we are excited to now make it available for young singers. n

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We Are One in Song Standing With Our Sisters in Harmony On The Risers and in Life

Harm Swe ony on th e Dani ters, An e Sound n ing a elle Blum e Benow Director t Den ner a Kare itz, R n n ver I ntern d Jane T ita Marbe Liberty Oak, amar ation r, a k in l Airp and her husband, ort. arriv-

By Margaret Callery Jackins, Harmony on the Sound Chorus, Region 1 The final rehearsals were over, and the costumes were packed. Travel arrangements had been made months earlier. The competitors were ready for the International Competition in Denver, Colo. All we had to do was get there, which proved to be easier said than done for those of us coming from the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut Tri-State area.

We had all heard the preliminary forecast: three major storms were converging together and would blast the east coast of the U.S. Knowing that weather predictions often change from hour to hour, many of us joked that nothing would keep us away from Denver, especially a Superstorm named Sandy. After all, we are Sweet Adelines! Little did we know that Sandy would wind up closing the entire northeast to air traffic for days and cause destruction and devastation that none of us could have anticipated.

As the reality of the situation set in, we took action. Travel plans were changed. Some of us left days earlier than planned. Others made new reservations for after Sandy’s scheduled landfall, hoping that airports and roads would be open by Wednesday.

Those of us who arrived in Denver earlier than planned were confronted with sold-out convention hotels. True to form, however, our Sweet Adeline sisters opened their hearts and their doors, offering sleeping space on couches and floors. Some of us slept in a different room each night until our planned reservation opened up.

Cell phones and email became our lifelines to the folks at home. By Monday evening, the phone calls and photos began arriving with the bad news: travel was prohibited, homes were flooded or destroyed, millions were without power.

Many wondered what impact Sandy would have on the competition. The first answer came Wednesday at the Quartet Semifinals. Region 15’s entrant East Coast Style did not compete because all of their members had not arrived. In spite of seven changes in flight reservations, their tenor did not arrive until Thursday morning.

Liberty Oak (#15) director Katie Blackwood found herself needing to depart within five hours of changing her flight in order to make sure her chorus would have a director in Denver, and that was just the beginning. With fewer than 50 percent of her

singers present by Monday, Katie began creating all kinds of contingency plans for the singers who would make it on stage. Liberty Oak performed with nine fewer singers than planned.

Harmony on the Sound (#1) director Karen Sweeters was, “more worried about my chorus members being safe than the performance. When Mother Nature takes over, you can only sit and wait to see what will happen in the end.“ Over the weekend, Karen was looking at competing with a chorus of 40-plus singers, down from the nearly 80 that had planned to be on stage. Slowly, but surely, however, the intrepid members began arriving. In the end, the final five arrived late on Wednesday, but nine singers didn’t make it to the stage.

Danielle Blumner, a member of Harmony on the Sound (#1), resides in Milford, Conn., and lost her home to Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. The final touches had not yet been completed when Sandy struck, and the house was uninhabitable once again.

While Danielle was in Denver, a mandatory evacuation of her neighborhood was ordered, and friends from HOTS volunteered their husbands to go to Danielle’s house to raise the furniture and evacuate the dog. “I’m a single person, and my family is not in Connecticut, so the chorus is my support system.

It’s events like this that make you realize and discover who your friends are,” Danielle explained. The earliest she can hope to be in her house again is July, nearly nine months after the storm.

Harmony Celebration (#15) member Helen Vopasek recalls watching The Weather Channel and seeing the massive flooding in her town of Little Ferry, N.J. She recounted her husband’s story of being in front of their home talking to a neighbor when a wall of water came rushing down the street. Running into the house, he slammed the door, but the water rushed in under the door overwhelming the pumps. Frank and the dog took refuge on the second floor as more than four feet of water filled the lower level of the house. Helen expressed her gratitude for the sisterhood of the women of Harmony Celebration. “Knowing how awful it was back home, if I had to be anywhere, I’m glad it was with my chorus and other Sweet Adelines.”

The most painful story to share is that of Jeanne Viscito, a dual member of Liberty Oak and Hickory Tree (both #15). Jeanne was in Denver to sing with

mother and brother remained at home in New Jersey. Saturday morning, she Tornhout and st, Cathy Van received the Jane Bergqui a, were trapped at home, ur Irene Plantam the one home with power devastating in ed er th ga t ith HOTS. bu news that her d sing along w to celebrate an home had been consumed by fire.

Her husband Scott escaped out a window, suffering rib and shoulder injuries, her mother was in the burn unit at a local hospital, her brother Lawrence perished in Jeann the fire from Marg e Viscito (r e Prid ight) a severe smoke dy nd he r moth er, inhalation.

Several days later, Jeanne’s mother Marge Priddy, a long time Sweet Adeline, succumbed to her injuries. Marge was a member of Ramapo Valley and Hickory Tree, and is the reason Jeanne is a Sweet Adeline today.

The support of the barbershop community has been remarkable. Both Liberty Oak and Hickory Tree Choruses together with Brothers in Harmony (the BHS chapter of which Scott is a member) took part in the memorial for Marge and Lawrence.

Grateful for the role of barbershop in her life, Jeanne shared, “I can definitely state that my life has been enriched and blessed by our brothers and sisters in harmony… they are truly without equal.”

Superstorm Sandy impacted hundreds of Sweet Adelines along the east coast of the U.S., and many of their stories are still unresolved. One thing is for certain, the camaraderie that exists between sisters in harmony is what helped many storm victims cope and move on. The strength of our organization is not the competitions but the women who stand on our risers merging their hearts and their voices in harmony. n

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Singing Keeps You Young This year on May 26, Mary Ella Merrick celebrated her 107th birthday! Mary Ella is the oldest living, participating, Sweet Adelines member.

Mary Ella was not able to attend competition with her chorus this year, but she is still a member of Port City Pearl Chorus, and received her 30-year membership award at the Region 5 Regional Annual Membership Meeting (RAMM).

Mary Ella (seated in the middle) singing with Port City Pearl Chorus during a sing out in the community.

Fifty-Year Legend Truly Julie We are the Battle Creek Sweet Adelines and it’s Julie Zehnder, our illustrious director who keeps us coming back week after week, year after year! Ask any of the 24+ women in our small chorus that graced the stage under her direction at this year’s regional competition, and we would each (in perfect harmony, of course) agree. Julie is our rock! Her love of a cappella music provides inspiration to continue perfecting our love of barbershop harmony.

This year our very own Julie Zehnder was honored for her 50 years of Sweet Adelines membership, and we couldn’t be more proud of her.

Julie Zehnder and Renée Porzel on stage during the Region 3 competition recognizing Julie’s 50 years as a member of Sweet Adelines International.

To see more photos and learn more about us, visit battlecreeksweetadelines.org.

Rich-Tone Chorus Celebration 50 Years in the Making It was a grand affair as the Rich-Tone Chorus surprised Master Director Dale Syverson with a celebration of her 50th year in Sweet Adelines International.

Under the guise of the chorus’ annual Installation Banquet, the Rich-Tones secretly orchestrated the tribute to celebrate memories of Dale’s half-century in the organization — and to create new ones.

From the moment Dale arrived, she knew this was no typical event. A large marquee-themed portrait proclaimed, “Now honoring: Dale Syverson’s 50th Sweet Adelines Anniversary,” and a celebrity photographer captured the arrival of chorus members and guests, among them Betty Clipman, Peggy Gram, Ruth Ann Parker and Darlene Rogers.

Dale said, “Our chorus constantly speaks of ‘sharing the Rich-Tone love.’

On this night, I was the recipient of that and so much more — it was a memorable way to launch my next 50 years in Sweet Adelines.” n

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Endowment Fund G oal : $500,000 C urrent L evel : $424,659 Young Singers Foundation 2013–14 Bev Sellers Memorial Scholarship Recipients

Gyasi Blanton Lincoln, University of Pennsylvania Anthony Boucher, High Point University

Kahli Dalbow, Carnegie Mellon University

Lauren Davis, Florida Gulf Coast University

Ruth Ellis, University of Utah

Johnathan McCullough, Curtis Institute of Music

Denná GoodMojab, University of Washington

Madison McIntosh, Mannes College

Sarah Reed,

Sammy Huh, University of Maryland, College Park

Karisa Millington, Indiana University

Elizabeth Tait, Utah State University

Sergey Khalikulov The San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Jordan Nichelson, University of Hartford

Kayla Wilkens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Katie Olsen, Anna Maria College

William Jewell College

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Alexis Aimé, Oberlin College

The Voice Box

Health Tips for Sweet Adelines

By Rachael Gates What are nodules, and how can I avoid getting them?

Vocal fold nodules are similar to calluses on hands that develop from chronic overuse. They are the most common type of lesion found in singers! Nodules occur in pairs and are symmetrical bumps that form on the inner edge of each vocal fold. Over time, chronic friction slowly causes the affected area of the vocal folds’ cover to thicken until nodules are formed. You lessen your risk of getting nodules when you stay hydrated, don’t talk too loudly, too much, or too low, warm-up properly before singing, avoid pressing or straining to speak or sing and control reflux if you have it. Any sensation felt in the neck while singing or talking suggests constriction and is a good sign that you’re doing something inefficiently. Find your optimal speaking tessitura and speak like you sing. Use good breath support, keep tone and varied inflection in your speech, and maintain the same mask resonance (a.k.a. forward focus) that you use for singing.

Dr. Rachael Gates is a Singing Health Specialist. She has taught at Northwestern University, The Hartt School of Music, Yale University and Michigan State University where she is currently on the Musicians’ Wellness Team. The Young Singers Foundation Bev Sellers Memorial Scholarship helped to fund her college education.

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Prospective Harmunichs Chorus

(Germany) This chapter from Munich sponsored and organized a successful barbershop workshop in early June with more than 200 attendees including members from every chapter and prospective chorus in Germany, plus other surrounding Barbershop choruses. What an undertaking! Thank you to Prospective Harmunichs for your tremendous efforts — your energy and commitment to this event has been remarkable and you are greatly appreciated!

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Prospective Yokohama Portside Harmony Chorus

(Japan) The members of this chorus continue to make progress with the help of their mentor Ozzi Mask. At the Region 14 convention, a surprise dedication was made to Ozzi in which a few of the members of Prospective Yokohama Portside Harmony participated. Thank you to Prospective Yokohama Portside Harmony members for all you are doing to keep Barbershop alive and well in Yokohama!

Prospective Urayasu Chiba Chorus

(Japan) The members of Prospective Urayasu Chorus are exhibiting uplifting tenacity and determination as they undergo a director search. One of their chorus members has stepped up on an interim basis and they are continuing to meet and practice hard. They are expecting new members to generate from a recent performance and they plan to visit Tokyo Chorus while its mentor Gerry Pappageorge is there to coach. Thank you Prospective Urayasu Chorus for your continuous involvement and progress!

Look for more highlights on our Satellite chapters in future issues of The Pitch Pipe.

The more you KNOw How to Update Your Information Refer to the following steps to make updates to ensure your contact information is correct:

In Memory

Song of Welcome

(As of May 1, 2013) Margaret (Peggy) Hayes, Grand Rapids, #3 Bernie Stratton, Chapter-at-Large, #12 Barbara Hull, Mission Valley, #12 Barbara Bianchi, Chapter-at-Large, #12 Vivian B. Smith, Diamond Jubilee, #4 Sara Rothenbach, Cincinnati Sound, #4 Lisa M. Nordhaus, Great Lakes, #2 Bess B. Komm, Alamo Metro, #10 Patricia “Pat” Berg, Crescent City Sound, #10 Gwen Kresswell, Lace City, #31 Sheila Amer, Lace City, #31 Elizabeth Gerlach, Shoreline Sound, #2 Patricia Kirby, Chapter-at-Large (Emeritus member of Harborlites), #21 Alice M. Duncan, Columbia River, #24 Susie Elliott, Yellowstone Harmony, #8 Peggy Hall, Prospective Harmony Gateway, #2 Marion Choong, Adelaide Sound Connection, #34 Mary Goess, Greater Nassau, #15 Janet Kaip, Spirit of Detroit, #2 LaVerne Hunt, Song of the Coast, #9

Limestone City Voices Region 16, Elginburg, ON, Canada Chartered on April 27, 2013 Julie Ambury and Sherelle Kelly-Witt, Co-Presidents Kristin Stevens, Director

Accolades

(As of May 1, 2013) Director Certification Program Advanced to Certified Director Doris Berube, Ohio Heartland, #4 Kathleen Britt, Jersey Harmony, #15 Sharon Connor, Wellington City, #35 Emma Duguid, Vocal Dimension, #31 Emily Hansen, Northwest Harmony, #24 Liana Jennings, Festival Sounds, #2 Andy Maddox, Syringa Sound, #24

Julie McCune, Palo Duro Metro, #25 Karen Ramirez, Endeavour Harmony, #34 Emma Riley, Vocal Dimension, #31 Kari Midtbo Schwartz, Crosstown Harmony, #22 Kylie Shanley, Northern Beaches, #34 Mary Su, Voices in Harmony, #17 Heidi Wilson, Pride of West Texas, #25

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1. Login to the Members Only section at www.sweetadelineintl.org, click on Member Login (top, right side of page) 2. Enter your Member Name or Username (last name first initial, ex: Jane Smith is smithj) 3. Enter your Member ID number in the Member Number or Password field and click Log In 4. Find the new blue navigation bar under the main red navigation bar and click on More Member Options 5. Click on the Member Profile link 6. You may be asked to login again, if so repeat Step 2 and 3 7. The first of five pages will appear (five steps) 8. Review these Individual Profile pages, make updates where needed and click Continue Update at the bottom of each page to proceed to the next (the only required information will have a red asterisk * next to it) 9. On Step 4 verify your information, scroll to the bottom and click Finalize Changes 10. A pop-up box will appear that asks if you are sure you’d like to continue, click OK 11. A confirmation page will appear thanking you for updating your profile

Advanced to Master Director Lynne Erickson, Sacramento Valley, #12 Henrietta Hunkin, Wellington City, #35 Kristina Lejon, Snowflake Singers, #32 Karen Jo Meade, Tucson Desert Harmony, #21 Valerie Taylor, Vocal Dimension, #31 Denise Van Dyken, Grand Rapids, #3 Melynnie Williams, Wichita, #7 Advanced to Master Director 700 Ryan Heller, Pride of Portland, #24

CLASSIFIEDS Director Wanted Song of the Coast in Daytona Beach, Fla., is a 45-voice Sweet Adelines International competing chorus with a community focus. We need a director whose professional vocal music experience or significant musical talent combined with strong leadership and people skills will propel us to the next level of musical excellence. Please respond: SOTCdirectorsearch@gmail.com. The ring of friendship is as important to us as ringing a chord!

Costumes for Sale

40 purple “never Wrinkle” 4-piece costumes. Variety of sizes. Includes long skirt, pants, shell, and jacket. Perfect for a small chorus. $800 OBO. Call Diann at 406-459-9329.

Helena Xpress Singers in Helena, Montana.

Large chorus has various costumes for sale: 100+ black velvet dresses; 50 hot pink fringed tunics; 100+ black, white, red satin tops; 45 blue band jackets/or vests; 100+ purple velvet tops; 100 turquoise feather boas, 100 pairs of neon colored gloves, extra fabric for many costumes, all sizes, all shapes. Please visit our website for more details, prices and pictures under “Watch and Listen”: www.choral-aires.com or email Nancy Moreno at: premier.ladybass@gmail.com Stunning Black Rivars 2-piece pants outfit. Weskit top with long sleeves designed to velcro in and out, creating a versatile vest option. Black on black baby dot sequin jacket front. Hand washable. Sizes S-4X. 45 sets @ $35 each, 7 extra jackets, no sleeves plus 3 extra pants - all at $15 each. Shipping additional. For pictures and inquiries contact: Connie Kilts, pearlie731@peoplepc.com or 319-396-6440.

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