How Main Street made the biggest barbershop hit of the decade
Main Street's modern pop medley "These Will Be The Good Old Days Twenty Years From Now" is crushing on YouTube, with hundreds of thousands of views, and links from media outlets, social media, and blogs around the world. How did the beloved five-time medalist quartet come up with this innovative, side-splitting performance?
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When you have an audience full of music educators, you want to bring your "A" game. (Get it?) So after some stellar barbershop tunes, Crossroads takes it to the next level by singing basically all of the folk songs ever. Music Educator paradise!
Harmony Hall-oween BHS and HFI staff takes the annual costume contest very seriously and the competition is fierce! Entries included a variety of animals, barbershoppers past and present, various co-workers, and a few others that defy description. Even our remote staffers got in on the action!
Winner of the Barbershoppiest Pumpkin Carving Contest*: Kevin Pommier *This is an imaginary contest.
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District contest results
Dixie District Quartet Champion - Great American Sound Machine Chorus Champion & International representative - Music City Chorus Senior Quartet Champion - Time and Again Seniors International Quartet Representative - Sweet Tea Scores
Land O Lakes District Quartet Champion - CHORD SMASH! Chorus Champion & International representative - Midwest Vocal Express Senior Quartet Champion - Fermata Nowhere Seniors International Quartet Representative - St. Croix Crossing Scores
Mid-Atlantic District
Quartet Champion: Route 1
Chorus Champion & International Representative: Alexandria Harmonizers
Last July, just for the fun of it, I put together an illustration for the 2015 International Barbershop Quartet Champions, Instant Classic.I posted it to Facebook and before I knew it, my feed was blowing up! My fellow Barbershoppers loved it and asked me to do more quartet art. So I went down the line - drawing up illustrations that I felt best represented each quartet champion.
