CANCELLED...will be rescheduled for the Fall of 2012
Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 65 Saunders Rd, Newport News, VA
The Youth Festival is an event where individual singers, quartets, and ensembles (mixed voices included) are able to learn about Barbershop Harmony singing in a large group setting. Once a student is registered for the event, music and CD's with part-predominant learning tracks are sent to the student in advance of the day of the festival. On the morning of the Festival, all students arrive at the location and spend the day working with trained barbershop clinicians. The songs are polished and the students sing a public performance that evening.
This festival is not just for the students.
Music Educators' seminar and singing are part of this festival.
The festival tentative schedule:
8:00 am Registration
8:30 am Introduction/WarmUps
9:00 am Basic Barbershop/Tags
10:00 am Sectionals/Group
11:30 am Lunch/Video (provided)
12:30 pm Group Rehearsals
3:00 pm Combined Goup
4:00 pm Quartet Tag contest
5:00 pm Dinner (provided)
6:20 pm Onstage Run through
7:00 pm Show
Festival Points of Contact:
Brian Allen, Youth Coordinator,Norfolk Chapter, (757) 851-5490, ballen7426@gmail.com
Susi Nelson, Region 14 YWiH Coordinator, (757) 868-8485, Sdnelson2@cox.net
The clinicians for the Youth Festival are no strangers to barbershop harmony and both quartets have won several distinctions. The women's clinicians are the Sweet Adelines International 3rd place Finalist quartet, Capri. The men's clinicians are the Youth Reclamation Project, the Barbershop Harmony Society's Mid-Atlantic Disctrict representative to the Mid-Winter Seniors Quartet Contest in Pasadena, CA in January 2009.
2010 3rd Place International Finalists
Youth Reclamation Project
MAD Representative to the Mid-Winter Seniors Quartet Contest
