Friends and Family show May 1st
with all the Sweet Adelines in the audience with our guest quartets Verve and WhatEver 4
Wonderful May
After three years, we finally were able to perform in front of our friends and family before we were able to compete in Region 12's video contest. It was truly a blast to be able to perform again for those who support and encourage us every day.
We miss all the excitement of seeing all our regional friends and their chorus' performances live this year. Thank you, Region 12, for making it possible for us to compete and to be able to see everyone, even if it had to be on YouTube. We were cheering everyone on, and we're so happy to see you all perform.
Thank you to the outgoing Management Team - outgoing Piet Chini and Nancy Maass.
New 22/23 Management Team: Sherry Rowe - Team Leader, Debi Gordon - Communications, Sue Barkley - Events, Pattie Bauer - Finance, Valerie Richie (not pictured)- Fundraising, Judi Naill - Marketing, Cindy Henry - Membership, Donna Spitzer - Secretary and Dede Nibler - Director
Congratulations to our Sweet Adeline of the Year, our director Dede Nibler. She was the glue that kept us together during this time of Covid with her Wake up with Dede Zoom meetings, small group rehearsals, and weekly words of wisdom. Dede is the forever teacher, and we love that she is continuously bringing the joy of learning to us.
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May was an ah-MAY-zing month for SOS in many ways! We welcomed new tenor Emma James and are excited to add her wonderful voice. We donated 75 bras to Free the Girls, a non-profit organization helping women rescued from sex trafficking reintegrate into their communities. And we felt the excitement of the video competitions and appreciate all of the hard work that went into making this all happen. We held our watch party at Kris Skold’s and loved the intensity and musicality that the competition delivered. Many congratulations to the new Region 12 winners, Diablo Vista Chorus and LiveWire. Every single chorus and quartet deserves special kudos for persevering and working toward excellence during these difficult last two years.
SOS worked hard on several new and old songs this month, and we continue to add more. We have our next mini-show looming and are excited to once again be up on the risers performing before a live audience. And finally, we are looking forward to June and welcoming back Vickie Maybury for an amazing weekend!
Summer Larson, Kat Slusser, Allison Murphy, Claire Urquhart, Sam Gonzalez
rehearsing for mini-show
Lynda Casillas, Christine Lush, Susan Burkett, Kris Skold assisting at video competition
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Hello, fabulous Region 12! What an exciting contest even from home this year. We would like to congratulate ALL the competitors, and we can't wait to hang blue ribbons on DVC's necks. Wow, what a fabulous performance and score, DVC! Everyone's performances were wonderful to see and hear again after so long.
After overcoming Covid and Zooming for 2 weeks again, PEC is back in business and working towards Phoenix, so Don't Stop Us Now! We enjoyed hostessing the Milpitas and Sacramento contest recording sessions and seeing friends and hearing LIVE singing again. Then in May we also had a fabulous coaching session with Ron Black, who continues to teach us the importance of tuning. We look forward to working with Sandy Marron in June, another "sing in tune" specialist. We also have a guest night on June 8 when a handful of singers from the region are coming to dual with us on the road to Phoenix. We are excited to have new friends on the risers for a few months, and we really look forward to seeing all of you and performing for you at the Pep Rally on August 20!
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Wow!! The results are finally in! The May 28th watch party was a huge success. AND Diablo Vista won Region 12 chorus competition with a score of 682. We will proudly represent Region 12 in Louisville, KY in 2023! Thank you to Mary Dean Heil for offering such a beautiful location and a gorgeous day for the watch party. We received our first place overall medals that day.
 Then on May 31, we had our annual Installation and Celebration dinner, chaired by our effervescent Events Coordinator, Margaret Kintner. We installed our new Management Team: Caitlin Castelino, Director; Mary Dean Heil, Team Coordinator; Karrie Shively, Finance Coordinator; Margaret Kintner, Events Coordinator; Suzanne, Webmaster and Records Coordinator; and Nancy Blom, Membership and Marketing Coordinator.
Other recognitions for the evening included three years’ worth of membership milestones, and many MANY thank yous to our fabulous, gracious, generous visual team: Julie Baxter, Karrie Shively, and Sarah Hodosh. Caitlin thanked our music team, pitch pipers, and front-row members.
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Wow - we're coming up on finishing the first half of the year. We started the month taking a week off after our contest recording at the end of April. We had our end-of- year celebration, Management Team changeover, and announcement of our Sweet Adeline of the Year, Laura Schultz via Zoom the second week in May. Congratulations to Laura - this was so well-deserved for all she contributes to the chorus.
We met in person the third week and continued celebrating exchanging gifts of thanks for efforts made in the 2021-2022 year. We also celebrated Jackie Bishop as a new Emerita member. She has been a Sweet Adeline for over 60 years.
We began working on two songs we will be singing for our post-Guest Program show and Ice Cream Social at the end of June. We also started our five-week guest program the last week in May. The Peninsulaires, a Barbershop Harmony Society men's chorus, is having a concurrent guest program, and we will be singing an 8-part song with them as part of the June show.
The Regional Contest was streamed over the weekend in the final week of May. We were so excited to find out that our chorus achieved second place overall and second place in our mid-size chorus division in the Regional Competition.
As we moved into June, we had a great performance at the Sunnyvale Art and Wine festival on the 4th. We're looking forward to our show at the end of the month as well. It's nice to feel that although we are not fully back to normal, we're moving in that direction.
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Fri, Jun 17
to Sat, Jun 18 |
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SOS - Coaching w/ Vickie Maybury |
Santa Rosa, CA |
| Sat, Jun 25 |
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RLC Ice Cream Social |
Grace Lutheran Church Parking Lot |
| Sat, Jun 25 |
7 pm |
VOICES IN HARMONY |
Salem, Oregon |
| Sun, Jun 26 |
3 pm |
BASC - Summer Show and Ice Cream Social |
Mount Olive Ministries |
| Sat, Jul 2 |
5:05pm |
National Anthem @Eugene Emeralds Baseball |
PK Park |
| Sat, Jul 16 |
6 pm |
MVC National Anthem @ San Jose Giants |
Excite Ballpark, San Jose |
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Wed, Jul 20
to Sun, Jul 24 |
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International Education Symposium |
San Antonio, Texas |
| Sat, Jul 23 |
9 am |
MVC Deke Sharon coaching |
OBI Studio |
| Sat, Jul 30 |
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Summer Regional Education Event - LAW School (Eugene, OR) |
Eugene, OR |
| Mon, Aug 1 |
7 am |
Harmony Fusion with Dede Nibler |
Hill & Valley Club, Hayward |
| Sat, Aug 6 |
7 pm |
MVC presents - Hot Summer Nights! |
Saratoga Community Center |
Fri, Aug 19
to Sun, Aug 21 |
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Fall Regional Weekend - AIM |
Sacramento, CA |
Fri, Aug 26
to Sun, Aug 28 |
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MVC - Ryan Heller coaching |
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Click on the pictures below to view individual chapters on Facebook. If you have not already liked their page do so now. Next month we will see the next three chapters.
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Facebook is an excellent way to reach out to your audience. Be sure to post weekly. It can be a recap of your latest rehearsal, the announcement of an upcoming event or share a related musical meme.
Pacific Shores Region 12 has two Facebook pages:
- Pacific Shores Region 12 - Sweet Adelines - This Facebook is used to promote the region's activity and news. Currently 994 Likes, 1114 Following
- Pacific Shores Region 12 - Chats - This Facebook page can be used by the chapters to post events and news. Visit the page and join the group and invite your Region 12 Friends. Currently 176 Members - Please help us grow our Chats Group. Invite your friends.
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SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL NEWS!
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NEW SWEET ADELINES COMMUNITY EVENTS CALENDAR
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The SA community events calendar (https://sweetadelines.com/calendar) is now your go-to source to find out where and when SA events are happening in your community, and to publicize your chorus’s upcoming event. Go to this page and click “Add Event” to add any chorus event you may have!
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Join Region 12's own directors -
Dede Nibler and Kathy Scheel as co-directors on a trip of a lifetime to London.
www.harmony-travel.net for more information.
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Early Bird Registration
NOW OPEN!
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Register now to save your place for...
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The incomparable joy of barbershop music!
Education from world-class barbershop faculty!
Visiting with barbershop friends for tag singing, afterglows, and fun!
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Phoenix Convention Center (Competition Venue)
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The Phoenix Convention Center (our new home from Sept. 12–17) GBAC STAR rating ensures a safer environment for gatherings like our exciting return to the international stage.
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Stay where the action is! The official Sweet Adelines hotel block opens in May. Keep up with Sweet Adelines communications channels so you’ll be ready to book rooms early.
Sign up to sing in the Family Chorus.
Plan your day-to-day with the event schedule, find out who's competing, learn topics and instructors of education classes, and check out tour offerings and other special activities planned for Phoenix!
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Sweet Adelines International
74th Annual International Convention & Competition
September 12-17, 2022
Phoenix Convention Center
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Your HCNW planning team has been hard at work on plans for this summer. As you can likely imagine, our primary focus over the last few months has been creating a safe and enriching experience for our students, faculty, and staff in the midst of continued COVID exposure concerns, limitations on travel, and changing protocols. With so many variables beyond our control, and as much as we had hoped to meet in person, it has become clear that HCNW should be held virtually in 2022.
MANAGING LOGISTICS & LIMITATIONS
After reviewing state and local COVID safety policies, researching best practices and health guidelines from similar events, and communicating with University of Puget Sound event staff, it has become clear that holding an in-person event that allows us to gather to sing, even in small groups, just Apossible. As much as we want to reconnect as friends and fellow singers, the on-campus requirements for masking, social distancing, and room capacities will significantly limit class sizes, coaching opportunities, options for shows - including restrictions around singing on campus. We just wouldn’t be able to do the things that make Harmony College Northwest so wonderful. We do know, however, that we can create a fun and fulfilling virtual event, so that’s what we are going to do!
LOOKING AHEAD
Making a firm decision about holding a Virtual HCNW means that the HCNW team can move full speed ahead with our plans! Last summer, we offered multiple learning tracks, online coaching, specialized workshops, a great closing show… and you can expect more of that in 2022. We’ll be incorporating your feedback, making improvements, and getting everything ready for another fantastic virtual event.
Stay tuned for more information about classes, faculty, and more… coming your way soon!
REGISTRATION INFO
Harmony College NW: 14 sessions (June 10-11 & 17-18) plus Saturday night show - $35.
Arranger Workshop: June 16-17, prior to HCNW classes - $25.
More information and registration are on our website: https://harmonycollege.net/
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