On March 4, music students from local high schools joined Tri City Sound and The Central Coast Chordsmen to learn about barbershop style music. The event took place at 4:00 pm at St. Louis De Montfort Church Hall in Orcutt.
The program was as follows:
Intuned (the young women's chorus): "You've Got a Friend" and "Lean on Me"
The Corney Island Chordsmen (the young men's chorus): "The Chordbuster March" and "Coney Island Baby"
Un- 4 Gettable: "Sh-Boom" and "Let Me Call You Sweetheart"
Jeweltones sang "They Go Simply- Wild Over Me" and "Blue Skies"
Soundsations sang "I Don't Know Why" and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
Orcutt Academy Choir: "Sing"
Our guest quartet The Newfangled Four performed, as well as an audience sing-a-long. Guest director Margaret Nelson led "God Bless America" followed by the "Star Spangled Banner" to finish the evening.
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| The Intuned Chorus posing for a "goofy" photo. |
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| Alexis(left, lead) and Karolyn(right, lead) taking a break. |
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| Guest director Margaret Nelson rehearsing with the young women's chorus and Tri City Sound. |
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| The young men's chorus rehearsing before the performance. |
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| Susan (Lead) with her students. |
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| Gina and Diana, expressive as ever! |
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| The Corney Island Chordsmen performing with guest quartet The Newfangled Four. |
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| The Soundsations performed "I Don't Know Why" and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". |
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| Jeweltones performed "They Go Simply- Wild Over Me" and "Blue Skies". |
The Youth in Harmony Program encourages and actively promotes the joyful
experience of singing in general, and singing in the four-part
barbershop style among young singers and their teachers. The goals of
the program are: to encourage and support local music education of all
types in the elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and
colleges in our communities; to provide a performance outlet and to
develop an awareness of singing as a lifelong recreational activity; to
raise the awareness among teachers and education administrators that
barbershop harmony is a viable musical art form that can help them to
expand and improve their vocal music curriculum; to foster the
establishment of groups of barbershop harmony singers at local schools
as an integral part of the school music curriculum; to provide the
environment in which young singers can develop greater self-confidence,
improve performance skills, and learn the value of teamwork.
