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This week in barbershop...
Webcast replay available until May 10
Gags, Giggles, Memes
If you're showing the show, let somebody know
Want to try an arrangement?
Let the kibitzing start!
We're not sure about this guy...
Harmony University Extension Classes at Toronto
FINAL EDITION. Sometimes you share jokes in rehearsal that you'd never tell onstage. So, too, with yesterday's accidentally-released LiveWire. A poor copy-and-send operation sent an inside joke among "Breaking Bad" fans to a wide audience.  This FINAL edition includes the intended "all-audiences" version. Writer Brian Lynch apologizes for the error.
Webcast replay available until May 10

 

More Ringmasters than you'll hear anywhere else! FREE! Hard to beat a deal like that.

 

Visit www.barbershop.org for a dose of smoking hot harmony from the historic 75th Anniversary webcast presented by Voices of Gotham and NYC choruses and quartets. It's FREE for another week.

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If you're showing the show, let somebody know
Chapters across the continent are staging the "Celebrate Harmony" 75th Anniversary Show.  

Help us keep track of which chapters or districts are performing the 75th Anniversary Show, "Celebrate Harmony."  Take 15 seconds to click through this three question survey.


How are you celebrating? Cake? Singing? Concerts?  We want to know. Send your YouTube links to av@barbershop.org and you just might see yourself on the big screens at international.

MMMM... yummy! Want to try an arrangement? The first eight bars are FREE!

 

Just like the smell of fresh-baked bread pulls you irresistibly into the bakery, the Harmony Marketplace wants to make sure you taste the best barbershop arrangements before you buy. 

 

Shopping for sheet music is getting easier and easier at HarmonyMarketplace.com with the new FIRST PAGE PREVIEW.

 

Now you can peek at the first page of EVERY arrangement in our catalog, so you can double check arranger, difficulty, etc., and get a taste of what the chart looks like.

 

That tall glass of cold milk? You're on your own for that one, pal.

Let the kibitzing start! International qualifiers posted to web  


Aww, who are we kidding? The prognosticating has been underway since last July. Still, if you want in, you need to know who's going. Here are the groups currently in the chase -- updated weekly.

 
We're not sure what to make of this guy, but he sure knows how to sell Harmony University.


Look at everything this handsome fellow has going for himself. Mustache - check. Ice cream mustache - check. Ice cream cone as big as head - check. Pitch pipe jammed into ice cream cone -- umm, that wasn't actually in the casting call. BarbershopTags app on his smartphone (not pictured.)

 

Look, we could talk until you're blue in the face about the world-class faculty

(did we mention that RINGMASTERS will be teaching, coaching and singing there?)

 

We could entice you with ice cream (pictured.) 

  

We could appeal to your vanity by suggesting that all the cool kids are coming this summer, and that your HU t-shirt will be a tag-magnet at every barbershop event you ever attend hereafter. 

 

We might even suggest that you'll come back a better singer,

director, quartetter or coach.

 

Nope -- we're not stooping to those petty manipulations. Here's our pitch -- 

 

"Come to Harmony University, and you'll end up looking just like this guy."

 

(Now, if you must be convinced by the other methods, check out www.barbershop.org/harmonyu and see Marty Monson's video pitch.)

Toronto convention offers Harmony University Extension Classes

 

You asked - we delivered! More education classes than ever before!

 

A barbershop convention can be more than just listening (but we love that part.) It can be more than singing (but we love that part even more!) It's also a chance to meet and learn from the biggest names in barbershop.  We've asked some of our terrific Harmony University faculty to deliver some bite-sized chunks of genius during special Harmony U classes at this summer's convention. Full details at http://barbershop.org/toronto-schedule-of-events.html, but check out some of these sessions:

  • Gold Medal Hour with RINGMASTERS

  • Comedy Quartet Hour with FRED, Storm Front, Shane Scott

  • New Music Reading Session with Adam Scott

  • Coaching Under Glass with Brandon Guyton

  • Using Social Media for Ensembles with Eddie Holt

  • Copyright 101 with Janice Bane

  • YA Chorus / Youth Chorus Development

  • Renewed Hope Within Your Chapter, with Fremont, NE Chapter

  • Director's Roundtable Discussion

  • Successful Stories from Successful Choruses

  • Nutrition and Exercise for the Singing Edge with Priscilla Shaw

  • Vocal Techniques with Jordan Travis

Get your 'shop on... get your brain on...  and walk away a better Barbershopper.

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