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Saturday Evening Post captures seniors championship
Freshen up for Singing Valentines
Harmony University tantalizingly close
See David Wright's "Future History of Barbershop" keynote speech
Find barbershop events on the calendar
Saturday Evening Post captures seniors championship
From left: Brian Beck, Tom Wilkie, Allen Gasper, Bobby Gray, Jr.
Saturday Evening Post, a quartet from Colorado Springs, bested 26 other groups to capture the gold medals in Saturday's International Seniors Quartet Contest. 

Singing "Tin Roof Blues" and "That's A-Plenty," the quartet earned the highest score ever posted for the Seniors contest, an 81% score that would be comparable to seminfinalist quartets in the open class International championships. 

No surprise in that: all four singers are past medalist and champion-level singers. The members of Saturday Evening Post are:
  • Bobby Gray, Jr., age 57, tenor
  • Allen Gasper, age 59, lead
  • Brian Beck, age 74, bari
  • Tom WiIkie, age 55, bass
The top five quartets were:

1 Saturday Evening Post, 1458 points, 81% average

2 High Priority, 1357 points, 75.4% average

3 Spotlight, 1349 points, 74.9% average

4 Replay! 1331 points, 73.9% average

5 St. Croix Crossing, 1321 points, 73.4 average

(Full scoresheet at bit.ly/2015seniorquartetscores)

Freshen up for Singing Valentines
See previous weeks
Valentines Day is just around the corner!  Have you got your charts? "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," "Heart of My Heart," and "Sweet and Lovely" are all great staples, but if you're in the mood for something new take a look at these:

All I Do is Dream of You How perfect is this song?  Like it was made for Singing Valentines. We almost dare you not to sing it.


 

When I Fall in Love Come on, it's like, the love song of love songs. If love songs sang each other love songs, they would sing this song.


 

Love Me and the World is Mine Because what says "I love you" better than crushing this tag at full screamissimo in a crowded restaurant?

NASHVILLE � JULY 26-AUGUST 2
Harmony University tantalizingly close
So close you can almost taste the ice cream... hear the tags ringing in the gazebo... feel the warm Tennessee breezes... smell the baritones.

Bigger than ever... easier to sign up.... with more ways to get more barbershop in your brain and heart.

Tell, it Donny Rose:

INSPIRATION FROM MIDWINTER

See David Wright's "Future History of Barbershop" keynote speech


 

Historian and visionary David Wright brought a rapt audience to its feet with a compelling speech that connected our barbershop style's roots to a possible expansive future for our Society. Along the way, he reminded us of the debt we owe to our African-American musical forebears, to the stylistic innovators of every era, and sketched a vision of our ability to reach broad new audiences in the future.


 

Watch it at bit.ly/futurehistoryofbarbershop

GET OUT AND GET BARBERSHOPPING
Chase the Lost Chord
Need more barbershop than your chapter can provide? Have a tag-singing itch that needs scratching? Are you just one tenor away from your Next Great Quartet?

What good is sitting alone in your room? Come, make the music today! The Society calendar at www.barbershop.org/calendar is your magic key to hundreds of events across the continent. Click through for details on conventions, shows, schools, workshops.

Saturday, January 17
 North Carolina Harmony Brigade
 Youth Harmony Workshop
Friday, January 23
 Far Western District (FWD) Harmony College West & Leadership Academy
Friday, February 27
 6:00pm Englewood FL Show
Friday, March 13
 Dixie District (DIX) Spring Convention
 Mid-Atlantic District (MAD) Spring Convention
Friday, March 20
 Far Western District (FWD) 2015 Spring Prelims & NE/NW Divisions Convention
 Cardinal District (CAR) Spring Convention
 Carolinas District (NSC) Spring Convention
 Northeastern District (NED) Spring Convention
 Venice Chapter Show
5:30pm
 Naples Ft Myers show
Saturday, March 21
1:00pm
 Charlotte County Chapter show
5:30pm
 Naples-Ft. Myers show
Friday, March 27
9:30am
 Chapter Show - Fremont, NE
Saturday, March 28
 Martin-St. Lucie Show
Wednesday, April 8
 BQPA 2015 Convention - Spring Festival
Friday, April 10 
Johnny Appleseed District (JAD) Spring Convention
 Ontario District (ONT) Spring Convention
 Seneca Land District (SLD) Spring Convention
 Sunshine District (SUN) Spring Convention
Friday, April 17
 Evergreen District (EVG) Spring Convention
Friday, April 24
 Far Western District (FWD) Arizona Division Convention
 Pioneer District (PIO) Spring Convention
Saturday, April 25
 Far Western District (FWD) Arizona Division Convention
 Pioneer District (PIO) Spring Convention
12:30pm
 Fullerton Chapter Show
Friday, May 1, 2015
 Central States District (CSD) Spring Convention
 Land O Lakes District (LOL) 2015 Spring Convention
Saturday, May 9, 2015
 Far Western District (FWD) SE/SW Divisions Convention
Friday, May 15, 2015
 Mid-Atlantic District (MAD) Atlantic Division Convention
Friday, May 22, 2015
 Mid-Atlantic District (MAD) Southern Division Convention
Friday, June 5, 2015
 Mid-Atlantic District (MAD) Northern Division Convention
 Mid-Atlantic District (MAD) Western Division Convention