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From the edge of the world to your town!
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Champs now booking summer tour -- grab dates while you can!
It's pretty rare that a world champion quartet is available for an extended period, but the Musical island Boys are a pretty rare quartet. Crossing the Pacific is not done lightly, so the quartet wants to maximize its barbershop time while in North America. The quartet is now accepting inquiries for booking shows, schools, and outreach events Friday, June 12 through Sunday, June 28 inclusive. For full details, contact Matthew Gifford at matt@musicalislandboys.co.nz or phone 011+64 27 2877913.
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 International Chorus Contest Official Order of Appearance announced
At the FAM trip in Pittsburgh, managers of qualifying choruses took part in the draw for order of appearance. Details at www.barbershopconvention.com/pittsburgh-chorus-contest
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Great Lakes Chorus
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The Downeasters
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Carolina Vocal Express
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Sound of Illinois
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Circle City Sound
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Ambassadors of Harmony
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Westminster Chorus
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Houston Tidelanders
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THX
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Brothers in Harmony
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Polytonics
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Alexandria Harmonizers
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Central Standard
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Southern Gateway Chorus
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Heralds of Harmony
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Northwest Sound
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Duke City Sound
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Harbour Town Sound
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Music City Chorus
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Marcsmen
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Hallmark of Harmony
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Midwest Vocal Express
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Voices of Gotham
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The Alliance
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Upstate Harmonizers
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Voices in Harmony
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New Tradition Chorus
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Pathfinders Chorus
- Men of Independence
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Give the gift of togetherness with the Family Four-Pack
Fight consumerism this year by rethinking your gift-giving strategy. Pledge that 2015 will be the year that your family chooses to do things rather than acquire things. And what can be better to do as a family than to spend time together at a barbershop convention.
For $599, you can get registrations for four people, s savings of $217. With downtown convention hotels as low as $109 a night, you can put together a pretty attractive driving vacation for under a thousand dollars. Drive? Sure! Pittsburgh is less than ten hours away from most of the Atlantic seaboard, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta -- in fact, more than half the U.S. population is within 500 miles! 
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Distance
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Erie
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126 miles
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2.5 hours
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Cleveland
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129 miles
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2.5 hours
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Baltimore
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218 miles
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4.5 hours
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Washington, DC
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221 miles
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5 hours
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Cincinnati
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295 miles
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6 hours
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Philadelphia
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295 miles
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6 hours
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Toronto
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324 miles
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6 hours
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New York
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368 miles
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7 hours
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Chicago
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452 miles
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8 hours
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Boston
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593 miles
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10 hours
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St. Paul
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849 miles
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15 hours
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Omaha
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891 miles
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16 hours
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Miami
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1168 miles
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21 hours
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Dallas
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1228 miles
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23 hours
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Seattle
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2006 miles
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44 hours
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Phoenix
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2118 miles
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40 hours
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Los Angeles
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2445 miles
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48 hours
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San Francisco
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2587 miles
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50 hours
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Load the car with snacks, sodas, an iPad ready to plow through barbershoptags.com, and set off on a family adventure! Add some other recreation ideas along the way courtesy of the good folks at www.visitpittsburgh.com, and you have a great summer vacation. Get your best price on Family Four-Packs before January 15, 2015. Use code FP2015 when registering; must add two adults and two youths from the same household to cart for discount to be applied.
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RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
"Sweet Caroline"
As irresistible to audiences as "Shave And A Haircut" was to Roger Rabbit, this week's featured song will compel them to sing along at the chorus.
Master songwriter/hitmaker Neil Diamond went multi-platinum with "Sweet Caroline," and it's been a staple of soft-rock radio ever since. Dylan Oxford arranged it for quartet medalists A Mighty Wind, and Chris Arnold made our learning track.
Take this one out for a spin -- you'll feel like you're in Fenway Park in the eighth inning stretch. Try it:
"Hands...reaching out.. touching you... touching me....
Sweet Caroline!
BA! BA! BA!"
See? Couldn't stop yourself, could you? Go, infect audiences with this unstoppable hook.
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MIDWINTER CONVENTION | January 6-11, 2015
All-Chapter Chorus Challenge: Donny Rose
 We've set you up with a brilliant director, the Vocal Majority's Greg Clancy.
We've set you up with brilliant section leaders, the members of all five quartet medalists.
At this point, all that's required is some good old-fashioned male dominance behaviors. You know, the same things that got you to ride your bike down a too-steep hill because someone dared you, or got you into a fight over which high school football team was better, or got you to buy a Corvette. You know. Guy stuff.
So, here comes Donny Rose, Director of harmony University, calling out a few people he thinks ought to sing in this chorus. Post your challenges on YouTube and email links to drose@barebrshop.org and we'll add it to the Wall of You Must Come. See more challenges at bit.ly/nolachallenge
Sign up today! You'll get a t-shirt, learning tracks, and sheet music.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
What could barbershop look like in the future? Ask President Shannon Elswick
People of all ages, parents with kids, diverse cultural heritages -- wow! Harmony, Inc.'s Sisters of Sound Chorus, directed by our outgoing Society President, looks like a visit to the future. Lock this image in your mind-- make it your goal to walk toward this future.
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 International Seniors Quartet Contest Order of Appearance
Saturday, January 10, Noon - 5pm
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Harmony Grits (NSC)
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Figaro (BABS)
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Spotlight (JAD)
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Replay! (SWD)
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Gulf Coasters (SUN)
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Youth Reclamation Project (MAD)
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Port City Sound (NED)
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Once Upon A Time (CAR)
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ON Q! (ONT)
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Geezer Q (SLD)
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Final Countdown (SNOBS)
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Take Note (ILL)
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Bustin' Loose (JAD)
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High Priority (FWD)
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Late Edition (JAD)
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Saturday Evening Post (RMD)
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Horizon (JAD)
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St. Croix Crossing (LOL)
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Velvet Frogs (FWD)
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Seasoned Citizens (SUN)
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Trade Secret (NED)
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Basses Unlimited (ONT)
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Nostalgia Express (ONT)
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Social Insecurity (EVG)
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Rolls Voyce (PIO)
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Armchair Chorderbacks (CSD)
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Stacked Deck (DIX)
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Chapter Officers reporting available online
As your chapter elects its officers for 2015, be sure to update your chapter record at ebiz.barbershop.org . Up-to-date records make it easier for you to manage your chapter business, be reachable by other members and headquarters, and ensure uninterrupted access to chapter billing, dues payouts, and communications. Get full details and step-by-step instructions online.
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Pick the songs, arrangers and fantasy quartet for a new songbook!
"The Stephen Foster Songbook" will contain ten newly-commissioned arrangements by arrangers YOU select, plus the classic arrangements of "Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair" by Ed Waesche and "Beautiful Dreamer" by David Wright. Two of these new arrangements will be debuted at the Saturday Night Spectacular in Pittsburgh, by a fantasy quartet you assemble. Yep-- pick each voice for the ultimate fantasy quartet, and we'll make it happen. And finally: everyone attending the convention will receive music and learning tracks in advance so they can participate in the debut performance led by a director you select.
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Holiday hours for U.S. Thanksgiving
Harmony Hall in Nashville will be closed for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday Thursday, November 27-Monday, December 1. We will open for business on Tuesday, December 2. Naturally, you can kick off your Christmas shopping right away at www.HarmonyMarketplace.com.
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DEPT. OF GAGS, MEMES, AND WELL-BUFFED VEHICLES
Wear your heart on your bumper. Chris Eitman of the Akron and Canton, Ohio, Chapters, tricked out his car in style, woth Society emblems, slogans, and a musical motif.
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