Kalamazoo Chapter
Ringing chords since 1941!
Keep the whole world singing!
We're in
Kalamazoo, Michigan (Pioneer District), located 1/2 way between
Chicago and Detroit.
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Kalamazoo Chapter |
Ringing chords since 1941! |
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Keep the whole world singing! |
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What is BARBERSHOP HARMONY? Click here TO KNOW |
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We
practice on Tuesday nights from 7 till 10pm at
SSJ Transformations
Spirituality Center
at 3427 Gull Road (at the former Nazareth College
campus). More here
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Photo by Tony Dugal |
See 2007 Fall chorus lineup. Welcome back, Mike Root, congrats to our first-timers - Ernie Pratt (1st row, 1st on the left) and Jim Senchuk (3rd row, 2nd from the right)!
Comments about 2008 Singing Valentines
Our Mission
Perpetuate the American Art form of barbershop quartet singing and encourage vocal harmony and good fellowship
among our members. We seek to encourage and promote the education of its members and the public in music
appreciation of barbershop quartet and chorus singing.
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Please support the Chapter - buy our first CD "The Road We've Traveled" for $12 . To order, please, click here.
To order our chapter LOGO MERCHANDISE, like T-shirts, coffee mugs, buttons, beer steins, stamps, magnets, etc. with the Chorus logo and pictures from our CD cover, please, visit our shop - click the icon on the right.
Part of the sales will benefit the Chapter
Our CD is featured on some Internet radio stations - The Harmony Network (THN) and Live365. Both stations play good barbershop harmony music. Please, click on the links above and enjoy the music! May 13 - Guest night. We will welcome all male singers who wish to join us for the summer concert series or for the show. Guest quartets are Interstate Chord Company, Go 4 it! chapter quartets - Four Got To Shave and Small Town Sound
Dave Woolf, Chorus Director
Dave Woolf hails from Allegan, where he fell in love with barbershop harmony listening to a faculty quartet from Allegan High School, and listening to “Barbershop Showcase” on local Kalamazoo AM station WKZO. He started his own quartet in the freshmen dorm at Grand Rapids Baptist College (now Cornerstone University). “The Boiler Room Four” toured the Midwest, bringing both barbershop and gospel to churches and other groups in the summer of 1982. He received a BS in Education from Calvin College and a BA from Cornerstone University.
After teaching music in Arkansas for two years, he began graduate studies at WMU while also singing baritone in the Mall City Barbershop Chorus and with the chapter quartet “The Keynote Address”. After teaching music in Ohio for two years, Dave returned to Michigan to complete his MA in Teaching at WMU and to teach at the Walkerville Rural Communities Schools. Dave and his family moved to Kalamazoo in 1999 and currently directs the Gull Lake High School Choir and teaches music at Kellogg and Bedford Elementary Schools. He is also a voice instructor at the Kalamazoo School of Music and Dance and directs the choir at Yorkville Community Church.
While not ringing chords, Dave enjoys playing bagpipes, repairing band instruments, is on the board of the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society, and sings bass in one of the district's newest quartets - Go 4 It!Dave and his wife, Melody, have three beautiful children, Sonnet, age 14, Jonathan, age 13 and Mark, age 10.
See Larry Flegal singing the National Anthem on Fathers Day - here
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CONGRATULATIONS TO
GARY MONROE,
2007 Barbershopper of the Year (Gary Brown
Memorial Award).
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Our chapter supports The National Anthem Project and will strive to be the best local performer of the National Anthem. Please contact us to sing at your event. | ||
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Business Office (John Fair):
730 Lake St.
Kalamazoo MI 49001-3021
Phone: 269-488-7227
Fax: 269-488-7227
This page was updated on 08 May 2008 09:29:45
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