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SoJam A Cappella Festival to include barbershop clinic
 "Looking out the window" means bringing our music and resources to our fellow travellers in the vocal music community. This weekend, at the SoJam Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina, noted coach, Presentation judge and Society Board Member Gary Plaag will join Matt Woodward, Matt Gorman, and Dr. Bill Adams to present an hour-long session that includes vocal production, chord theory/structure, some presentation things. Plaag reports:
We will demonstrate how we all come from different parts of the US but can all sing a song together, will teach them a tag or two, and will show a video or two of barbershop then and now (likely "Lida Rose" from the original Music Man, the Musical Island Boys doing "Childhood", and another top 5 quartet doing an up-tune).
We're highlighting this event not because it's a giant leap forward, but rather a fundamental blocking-and-tackling approach to introducing the excitement of our style and breadth of our skills to an audience of people who, after their college years, will be looking for places to continue their love of singing. In fact, there's even a seminar at SoJam titled, "Starting Your Post-Collegiate Group." Folks: the Barbershop Harmony Society is the easiest solution for starting a post-collegiate group. Our entire business is built on providing continuity of a singing experience--through the years, around the globe, you can always find a barbershop group to sing with.
Oh, by the way, there will also be some terrific shows including The Swingle Singers, Eh440 from Toronto, and Micappella, plus workshops, master classes, and a collegiate competition. Fun! ON THE BLOG: www.barbershophq.com/?p=2393 |
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GROWTH FOR THE FUTURE
David Calland joins Foundation staff
Continuing fundraising success and program expansion have brought staffing changes to Harmony Foundation International. The Foundation concluded its fiscal year 2013 with a 26% increase in revenue over last year, continuing a trend begun in 2008. The Foundation has grown by 211% in gift income since then.
To support this exploding growth, David Calland has joined the team as a Director of Development focused on the Midwest Region. David is widely recognized throughout the Society as a coach, Harmony U faculty member, director of the medalist Alliance Chorus, lead of medalist quartet The Allies, a past Johnny Appleseed District president, and a 2013 Society Board member.
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SONG OF THE WEEK
Patriotic Premiere Series
This week we think to Veteran's Day and laud and sustain all you who have served in the armed forces.
The Patriotic Premiere Series has six wonderful songs for every time of the year. With newly recorded learning tracks by Tim Waurick and and Tony De Rosa, sink your teeth back into these songs. We have everything you will need for an entire year of baseball games, flag raisings and parades, bundled into a $12.99 package that includes sheet music and learning tracks. Includes:
- The Star Spangled Banner
- America The Beautiful
- The Armed Forces Medley
- Battle Hymn Of The Republic
- God Bless America
- God Bless The U.S.A
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Loos elected to Board  Randy Loos of Clearwater, Florida, has been elected to the Society Board of Directors to serve the unexpired term vacated by Joe Cerutti., Loos is a noted quartet singer (Grandma's Boys, Sidekicks, Backbeat and more), a director of men's and women;s choruses, and has previously served on the Society Events Committee, Harmony Foundation Board of Trustees, and numerous Society Board Committees in the finance and investment areas. |
Insider's Travel Guide to Las Vegas 
We all know the 2014 Convention in Las Vegas will be a bangeroo of all things barbershop. We all know that Las Vegas is, well, LAS GOSH-DARN VEGAS, with an infinite number of indulgences, shows, games, and so on.
But while you're planning your trip, you might also consider a few not-so-evident activities, unearthed by The Wall Street Journal:
- Earth-Moving Experience // Dig This. I held the best birthday party of my life at this 5-acre sandbox for adults. You dig holes and fill them in with real construction equipment. It's exhilarating to teeter like a 20,000-pound ballerina on a mound of earth. digthisvegas.com
- Magic Show // Mac King. The best comedy magician in Vegas. He'll fool you with fantastically original tricks using rain ponchos and Fig Newtons and tents. Take the kids. Take the grandparents. Take the smart-ass teens. mackingshow.com
- National Atomic Testing Museum. Learn about America's nuclear arsenal from the museum displays-and the docents, many of whom witnessed the test blasts that took place just 65 miles outside of town. nationalatomictestingmuseum.org
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ARMY MOBILIZED!
23K team announces projects
Last Friday, the general staff of the BHS Volunteer Army, led by Chief Volunteer Officer Pete Carentz, identified some of the first goals for the all-volunteer force. All the details will be forthcoming very soon, but here are a couple of hints:
- Every single first-year member will be contacted and asked how his first year is going. Instead of losing one third of all new members in the first year, we are pulling out all the stops to reduce that number dramatically.
- Strike teams are being formed, and action plans developed, to start many new chapters beginning this Spring. In the first 10 years of the Society, our early members formed 500 chapters and gained 25,000 members in the process.
- Several other projects are on the drawing board. Right now project leaders are being located and interviewed. Want to help improve CSLT training? So do we and we are looking at how to do it.
If you want to join one of these exclusive teams and get some things accomplished for the future of our society, there is only one way to enlist in the army.
In the coming weeks, every single member will be receiving an invitation to go on line and fill out his own personal 23K questionnaire. Watch your email, because we are sending out 500 invitations every day. Every volunteer project member will come from the data base being compiled from these questionnaires.
When you fill out your questionnaire, be careful to make note of every single talent and skill you have so we can have all of your skills in the database for future reference.
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