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VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Barbershop celebrates with you, grieves with you: Marsee's story
When your world collapses around you, where do you turn? A young man tells a painful, uplifting story of being sustained by barbershop and Barbershoppers through a time of incredible loss.
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HARMONY PLATOON AT MIDWINTER | January 6-11, 2015
Sing the hottest charts with people who actually know them
Make your New Orleans Midwinter Convention experience better than ever by signing up for the Harmony Platoon, a quality quartet experience that is challenging, exciting, and fun.
Instead of coming to a convention and hoping to find a few more singers to eke out a few Polecats, Platoon singers arrive fully prepped with sheet music and learning tracks to four top-notch arrangements, then participate in casual pickup singing and three "Luck-of-the-Draw" quartet contests. You must know all four songs cold without the charts to participate in the contests.
Platoon registration for Midwinter 2015 includes a deluxe color-coded Harmony Platoon lanyard to help locate men to sing these great songs all week.
Platoon registrations for Midwinter are due November 15. Sign up now and get access to the learning tracks and charts as early as October 15. Questions: Don Salz, don@rosye.com (916) 813-2959 or www.harmonyplatoon.org
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Want to win $200 to the Harmony Marketplace? Get
"Hooked on a Feeling" and find out how!
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Hooked on a contest
Last week, we released "Hooked On A Feeling," (tracks) , the irresistible "ooga chaka" song featured in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy blockbuster space flick. This one's going to be big -- kids are going to eat it up. So we decided to have a little more fun with it, by launching a contest for you to show us your oogachakas.
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Buy the song (opt and the tracks).
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Learn the song.
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Sing the song in ANY ensemble.
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Record the song and post it as a link in the comments section to the video challenge.
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Share your video widely.
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Views are 1 point, YouTube Video "likes" are 1 point. Although shares help, it's the YouTube numbers that win the thing. So Tumblr, tweets, all that social media schtuff will help.
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Numbers are tallied up November 1.
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LEADERSHIP IS A FAMILY AFFAIR
Malletts issue $75,000 Match Challenge
Jim and Anne Mallett of Wilmington, North Carolina, are true "Barbershoppers' Barbershoppers." Their lives in harmony span more than 44 years, Jim with two-time chorus champion the Dapper Dans of Harmony (Livingston, N.J.) and now with the Cape Fear Chordsmen, and Anne with the West Essex Chapter of Sweet Adelines International. They have sung in church choirs and with their five children, and have attended close to 40 International Conventions. "What a wonderful world it is," they say. "Barbershopping has kept us busy, and has been very good to us." With barbershop so central to their lives, they feel "a social responsibility to take our art form to the world, to change lives." That has brought them to issue a $75,000 Match Challenge to energize and introduce other donors to Harmony Foundation International, which will match one dollar for every new dollar donated to the President's Council or Ambassador of Song programs during fall conventions.
For further information on the challenge or to make a gift , contact Harmony Foundation at 866-706-8021 or visit our website at www.harmonyfoundation.org
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DEPT.OF GAGS & MEMES
Tip o' the old straw hat to the Barbershop Memes group on Facebook, making funny with the ha-ha since 2013. |
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GEEK MOMENT
Be that cool: use RSS feeds on your website
Keep your members and your fans connected to news and happenings across the barbershop world by plugging in an RSS feed from the Barbershop Harmony Society. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) sends article titles and snippets as an embeddable stream in your blog or website. Try these feeds:
The coolest people in the world are using it! See how it works on these sites:
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HELP US HELP YOU
Support FAQ handles common questions
The Customer Service Center at Harmony Hall offers a single point of contact for all your needs: merchandise orders, membership renewals, music requests, and more. Unsurprisingly, team members find themselves answering many of the same questions repeatedly.
Now, you can find many of these same answers for yourself, in the new Customer Service Suppor FAQ.
You'll find answers to questions ranging from "What is the difference between the Society's Published and Unpublished catalogs?" to "Where can I get a Certificate of Insurance?"
Self-service saves time and allows staff to help solve more complex problems for members. Check it out: www.barbershop.org/support
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