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We love to entertain! Our chorus, quartets and octet collectively sing about 75 times a year to more than 10,000 people...

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Sing, it's good for you......Sing barbershop it's fun!

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We are proud to have The Aristocrats as our guest quartet. To go their web site click here.

Thank you to our show sponsers:

Jack's Family Restaurant

Expressway Ford

Cribit Seed

Ergo Advantage Mats

Evergreen Property Management

A-Z Rental

Chung & Vanderbilt

Daclen Engineering

North Waterloo Vet Clinic

One More Time Quartet

Schiedel Construction

Tall Pines Dental

The RayLipskie Partnership

Tire Team

Waterloo North Chiropractic

Target Therapeutic

Frey’s Plumbing

Julia Pederson Photography

Clearway Speech Therapy

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Coming Events - Click below

May 5 2018 - 7:00pm

Annual Spring Show

MUSIC....the SPICE of LIFE

Most of us in the Twin City Harmonizers know singing is good for us. I discovered on the internet an article by Julian Layton about how singing can make you happier. The article states:

Physical Effects of Singing

All types of singing have positive psychological effects. The act of singing releases endorphins, the brain's "feel good" chemicals. Singing in front of a crowd, a la karaoke, naturally builds confidence, which has broad and long-lasting effects on general well-being. But of all types of singing, it's choral singing that seems to have the most dramatic effects on people's lives.

A study published in Australia in 2008 revealed that on average, choral singers rated their satisfaction with life higher than the public -- even when the actual problems faced by those singers were more substantial than those faced by the general public [source: MacLean]. A 1998 study found that after nursing-home residents took part in a singing program for a month, there were significant decreases in both anxiety and depression levels [source: ISPS]. Another study surveying more than 600 British choral singers found that singing plays a central role in their psychological health [source: ISPS].

But why? Could you just start belting out a tune right now in order to make yourself feel happy?

It's possible. Some of the ways in which choral singing makes people happy are physical, and you get them whether you're in a chorus or in a shower -- as long as you're using proper breathing techniques during that shower solo. Singing can have some of the same effects as exercise, like the release of endorphins, which give the singer an overall "lifted" feeling and are associated with stress reduction. It's also an aerobic activity, meaning it gets more oxygen into the blood for better circulation, which tends to promote a good mood. And singing necessitates deep breathing, another anxiety reducer. Deep breathing is a key to meditation and other relaxation techniques, and you can't sing well without it.

Physical effects, while pretty dramatic, are really just the beginning. Singing causes happiness for other reasons that have less of a biological basis.

The source of the excerpt above can be found at:

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/emotions/singing-happy1.htm

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The Twin City Harmonizers have been performing in the Barbershop style representing, performing and doing service work in this community and the Province of Ontario continuously since 1946.

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Contact Randy Kirch, text or call 519.502.9645
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Schwaben Club
1668 King St E
Kitchener, ON N2G 2P1

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