Shows
Sing With The Champs 2008 - Nashville
We again sold out and may have a longer time slot due to the growth in popularity of this annual event. All the quartets were VERY cooperative and did a great job. Thanks to Max Q, Vocal Spectrum, FRED, Realtime, and Gotcha!. A special thanks to Max Q for filling in the time slot for Four Voices that had to cancel out at the last minute. One singer even wrote her own parody to sing with FRED! We had a great group of volunteers this year and Bob Lindley worked the entire three hours! Thanks to Joe Sullivan, Carl Dahlke, Don Kane, Jim Foy, Don Kahl, Jerry Fairchild, Bob Lindley, Paul Graham and Don Bagley. We had a great variety of singers and several persons sang with more than one quartet. We were also thrilled to have college singers! As many of you probably know, we had a little recording problem and all the CDs came up "blank". The CDs were not "finalized" at the end of the recording. However, we have found software that will close out the CD and all the data (performance) is intact. All participants have been or will SOON be notified as to how to easily fix their DVD. Next year in Anaheim will be even better - My thanks to all – it was another success, thanks to you!
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| VS & Karen Maney of Fletcher, NC | VS & June Noble |
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| VS & PLAY IT AGAIN! of Ottawa, ONT | VS & 4 |
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| VS & 5 | FERD & 6 |
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| MAX Q & 7 | MAX Q & Yasuo Hirose |
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| MAX Q & 8 | MAX Q & 9 |
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| MAX Q & Tom Stewart Tampa FL | MAX Q & 11 |
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| MAX Q & 12 | |
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REALTIME & Joe Johnson |
REALTIME & Tim Byrd |
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| GOTCHA! & 14 | GOTCHA! & 15 |
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| GOTCHA! & 16 | GOTCHA! & 17 |
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| GOTCHA! & 18 | GOTCHA! & Kim and Jerry Orloff |
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| MC JIM FOY | MC JERRY FAIRCHILD |
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| MC DON BAGLEY | MC PAUL GRAHAM |
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ORGANIZERS SUE & PHIL HANSEN and JERRY FAIRCHILD |
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Photos by Miller Photography and Dallas Ann Johnson |
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Sing With The Champs 2007 - Denver
Coordinator Phil Hansen was once again successful with the help of many volunteers and champion quartets. There were several lucky singers who got to bust a chord with the likes of Happiness Emporium, Gotcha, Power Play, FRED, Realtime and Vocal Spectrum. AIC Members served as emcees for the event. Once again this event raised some much needed dollars for the AIC Grants supporting YIH Society-wide.
We look forward to next year in Nashville and another successful event
Many thanks to ALL !!
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click on the camera logo above to see photos of those lucky enough to sing with the champs this year.
(thanks to Al Klinger and the MountianAires for this resource)
Sing With The Champs 2006
by Phil Hansen - SWTC coordinator/ Bass Mid States Four
This year turned out great. We sold out and had outstanding support from the Indianapolis Barbershoppers. This year we used a camera with a photo printer instead of Polaroid. This gave the quartets the opportunity to sign the photo and it gave the whole process a touch of class.
We had the Acoustix, Suntones, Gotcha!, Happiness Emporium, Four Voices, Realtime, Fred and Power Play. Our MC’s this year were Jerry Fairchild, Ray Henders, Jim Bagby, Gary Parker and Don Bagley. Others that helped out were Ron Knickerbocker, Dave Kindinger, Butch Koth, Howard Rinkel, Bill Thornton who did a great job with the camera and Rick Anderson.
Sorry if I forgot someone as it got very busy at singing time. The crowd was enthused and numbered over 300 most of the session. Thanks to all who supported the program and look forward to next year in Denver .
By Charles May - Director, Montclair , NJ - Bass, Big Apple Chorus - Bass, Murphy's Law
I'd like to give a public thank you and shout-out to Gotcha! for participating in the "Sing With The Champs" program on Saturday morning. I got a chance to sing "Wait 'Til The Sun Shines, Nellie!" with them, and it was an awesome and amazing experience!
They were incredibly nice and supportive to me, before, during & after the song - real and true gentlemen. (This is consistent with everything I've seen - including singing a polecat with them at last year's Director's College.)
I was nervous and anxious before and during the performance, and unbelievably exhilarated afterwards. That was the most fun three minutes I had at the entire convention!
Sing With the Champs is a GREAT fundraiser for the Harmony Foundation, and I appreciate the opportunity that I had this year with Gotcha! (and two years ago, my wife sang with FRED; and I sang with FRED three years ago.) If you haven't had a chance, at next year's International, take part in this program.
Over the last four years, great quartets like Gotcha!, The Suntones, Acoustix, FRED (who gave us the highlight of our honeymoon in Louisville in '04), Power Play, Realtime, Four Voices & Happiness Emporium have provided their services in this neat barbershop karaoke.
It's a wonderful $40, even if you "just" go up and sing a polecat - like my lead, Bob, did with Realtime.
Thanks, Gotcha! guys. I really, really appreciate it.