Barbershop Quartet Show September 19

Let’s Sing! and Finders Keepers, two award-winning North Carolina barbershop quartet groups, will perform Saturday, September 19, at ASU’s Rosen Concert Hall as part of the Watauga Arts Council’s 28th annual Barbershop Show. Photos submitted

The Watauga Arts Council presents the 28th annual Barbershop Quartet Show on Saturday, September 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall on the ASU campus. It will feature two award-winning quartets, plus a new entertainment package by the Triad Harmony Express show chorus from Winston-Salem.

All seats for the show are reserved and cost $15 in advance and $18 at the door, with students and children free at the door pending seating availability. Tickets are on sale and are payable by check or cash at Rydell Music Center on Highway 105 or by credit card at the Arts Council website by clicking to www.watauga-arts.org. Net proceeds benefit music scholarships.

The featured quartet is Let’s Sing!, whose members hail from Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Raleigh. Each member has been active in the Barbershop Harmony Society for at least 25 years and they all have sung in other quartet combinations over the years that have experienced success in district and international competitions. The most recent such endeavor for the current singing combination was qualifying as one of the top 50 quartets in the world to compete this past July in the annual international competition in Anaheim, Calif. Let’s Sing! will compete next month for championship honors at the district contest in Chattanooga, Tenn. The group has entertained across the southeast for the past year and will be bringing their vocal stylings and humor to the concert stage in Boone for the first time.

Finders Keepers, Sweet Adeline regional medalists in 2009, has been providing harmony entertainment to the Carolinas for the past four years. Its members are from the Charlotte area, and the lead singer is the director of the award-winning Queen Charlotte chorus. The quartet is also an award-winner; it captured the bronze medal at the regional competition this spring in Greensboro. Finders Keepers will also lead a harmony-singing workshop for high school girls the afternoon before the performance. For workshop information, click to www.watauga-arts.org. The bass of Let’s Sing! will lead a similar workshop for high school boys.

Triad Harmony Express developed a show package this year titled “Live at the Sands! Barbershop with Sinatra & Friends.” It is a combination of a dozen familiar songs from the 1960s, interwoven with short skit segments to help set the stage for showtime in “Fabulous Las Vegas.” Those who attended shows in the past couple of years will remember the musical fun provided by the western setting of “How The West Was Sung” and last year’s 1940s radio broadcast production of “In The Mood.” This Winston-Salem singing ensemble will live up to its nickname as the “Show Chorus of the Triad” by adding a few presentation novelties to help get the message across. And this year, the group will again be assisted by the women’s ensemble Downtown Sound, also from the Triad, as they provide that extra dimension of the Vegas experience.

To purchase tickets or for more information, click to www.watauga-arts.org.

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