Saturday
Kazoo Contest
The Pioneer District Barbershop Harmony Society Spring Convention April 28-30, 2006 held at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Kalamazoo Michigan hosted by Macomb County Chapter. Our Great Lake Chorus of Grand Rapids performed Saturday the 29th at 11:50am scoring 780 and taking 4th out of 15. Wardrobe was the black pants and shirts (minus the coats) with the new shinny red vests and bow ties. Below are a few more photos.
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Radisson Plaza Hotel, Kalamazoo MI main enterance.
Here's a shot of the competition room, the Arcadia Ballroom. This is before showtime so not much of a crowd. On stage is the Joe Barbershop Chorus consisting of members from the other choruses doing a mic test.
Joe Barbershop Chorus directed by Music Judge Joe Giallombardo. I heard the count was over 170 on stage!
Here's some of the 11 judges at the foot of the stage.
Here we are rehearsing just before going on stage. I'll Be Seeing You and Ballin' The Jack went over great and the choreography was a big hit with the crowd! The audiance gushed at this hands on the knees move. I don't know if it was because the move looks so cute or because the audiance recognized the Ballin' The Jack melody there.
Our co-director Curt Struyk front right.
We did a 'doing the twist' type move which got hoots from the audiance. I saw only one wrong move on stage but he recovered well. I was only able to stay for half a dozen choruses before having to leave for work but I had a blast! I did get to hear Plateau 1 rated (to our Plateau 2 class) Mountaintown Singers from Mount Pleasant Chapter sing and their sound was fantastic! They took 1st Place so a big congratulations to them!
Although the GLC has co-directors Curt Struyk and David Miller the program listed Curt as the competition director which was how the chorus was introduced but actually it was Dave who was on stage directing. The speaker announced the correction as the chorus walked off stage, Dave waved sheepishly which got a chuckle from the audiance.
Nice work by our own quartet the 2004 Pioneer District (Michigan/Windsor) champs, Wildcard (which includes both our directors) who took 4th!
Final Scores below, congratulations to all the competitors...
http://www.harmonize.com/Pioneer/contestsummary/ScoreSheets/chspr06.pdf
Chorus:
1. Mt Pleasant= 917
2. Lansing= 829
3. Motor City Metro= 807
4. Grand Rapids= 780
5. Traverse City= 770
6. Kalamazoo= 761
7. Hillsdale= 759
8. Windsor= 712
9. Battle Creek= 704
10. Grosse Pointe= 690
11. Michiana Metro= 674
12. Pontiac= 664
13. Gratiot Co.= 653
14. Rochester= 629
15. Monroe North= 546
Quartets:
1. Fermata Nowhere= 1770
2. Infinity= 1750
3. Party of Four= 1745
4. Wildcard= 1739
5. Journey= 1626
6. Something Big= 1578
7. Border Crossing= 1524
8. After Intermission= 1511
Scores from other performances found at...
http://www.harmonize.com/Pioneer/contestsummary/contmenu.htm
