SPECIAL EDITIONS DURING CONVENTION
To keep you in touch with all the excitement, updates, new videos, and links to scoresheets, LiveWire will be distributed daily this week.
We will return to normal weekly schedule following convention.
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WEDNESDAY IN VIDEO: Daily Wrap-Up brings you all the action
Check our convention YouTube playlist at bit.ly/bhspghdaily for new videos and behind-the-scenes views of the convention.
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See the MURAL come together LIVE at www.barbershop.org/joy |
Top Twenty Quartets Named
A smokin' hot quarterfinals round brought twenty quartets forward to Thursday's semifinals. In order of appearance, they are:
1. Trocadero 2. A Mighty Wind 3. The Core 4. The Newfangled Four 5. The Crush 6. Midnight Croon 7. 'Round Midnight 8. After Hours 9. Gimme Four 10. Instant Classic 11. Quorum 12. Artistic License 13. Signature 14. Main Street 15. McPhly 16. Stockholm Syndrome 17. Throwback 18. Harmonium 19. Forefront 20. Lemon Squeezy= MT. Reckless
Get score sheets from Wednesday's quarterfinals here.
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Up Pericope!
The future is NOW! Throughout the week, we will be streaming live from Pittsburgh using the Periscope app. Join us while we were broadcasting or access via the link to see what the vibe is at the convention and get a taste of life in PGH.
Here's how it works:
- download the Periscope app to your phone and
- sign in with your Twitter account
- Follow @barbershopnews to be notified instantly when a broadcast begins!
- We'll also share the link on Twitter and Facebook. The video is saved and watchable for 24 hours, but then it's gone like a tag in the breeze.
This morning: we broadcast the 9am AIC War Stories class!!!
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Donors Launch Largest Match in Foundation History!
The Legacy of Harmony Endowment Campaign to ensure the future of singing is underway. So important is that future that 6 donors have thrown down the largest matching challenge in Foundation History! John & Sharon Miller, Dick & Peggy Lidstad, and one more anonymous couple have pledged a 1:10 'Cash Gift-to-Planned Gift' Match... of a half million dollars!
For every $10 in pledged Planned Gifts (Wills, Bequests, Life Insurance Beneficiaries, etc), these donors will give Harmony Foundation $1 in Cash today.
That means $5 Million in 'Legacy of Harmony' planned gift commitments raises $500,000 cash TODAY!
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GONE SINGIN' HQ offices closed during convention
Society headquarters offices will be closed during convention, beginning at close of business Friday, June 26. A partial crew in the Customer Service Center returns on Tuesday, July 7, and all staff return to normal duty on Wednesday, July 8.
During convention, you can continue to renew memberships online, access and update your records at ebiz.barbershop.org, and shop for merchandise and sheet music at shop.barbershop.org for fulfillment commencing July 8.
Enjoy a safe holiday week, and sing up a storm wherever you are -- at a family picnic, at a webcast party... or with us in Pittsburgh!
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