Between a “sell-out” audience and a very successful, all day “A Cappella” Youth Workshop, KW’s Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society marked the chorus’ 70th Anniversary in fine style this past Saturday, May 7th.
The youth workshop was led by “SHOPTIMUS PRIME” who were also the headline quartet in the evening celebration. Shoptimus Prime is the reigning WORLD SILVER MEDAL quartet in the “Youth Division”.
Our own Classic Chordsman (Martin Shelly filling in for Ray Brenneman) were in The Passengers Seat, CKWR's afternoon show hosted by Coral Andrews. The podcast has been posted on http://www.coralandrews.ca
November 10th we celebrated Doug Kunkel’s 90th birthday with a cake, songs a many great wishes. It was not that many months ago that we celebrated Lorne Brubaker’s second 90th birthday. Both are very active members of the Twin City Harmonizers. Both are living examples of how music can keep you young.”!
On August 18, 2015 The Royal City Ambassadors,, The Gentlemen of Harmony and The Twin City Harmonizers met at the bandshell in Royal City Park in Guelph for a singout. It turned out to be a lovely evening. A good crowd gathered to see us and we all enjoyed the performances. We headed to the afterglow at Fion McCools were we took over the stage and entertained the crowd. A number in attendance had been to the Ontario Quartet Event and got together and sang the songs they learned this summer. A fun time was had by all!
Members of the Twin City Harmonizers joined the Royal City Ambassadors at the make up game between the Kitchener Panthers and the Guelph Royals. We had a lot of fun singing. It's never to hard to find songs that everyone knows. After O Canada, we headed to the stands to enjoy the game. We managed to sneak in a couple more in between innings and led the crowd in a rousing rendition of Take Me Out To The Ball Game for the seventh inning stretch. The Panthers won 9 - 2 and we hope we get invited back next year.
By noon on June 9th, the sun came out and ushered in a glorious afternoon. 8 golfers from K-W, 8 from Guelph and 1 from Hamilton.
The winning Team consisted of Bob Briden, Ron Brown, Peter Dennett and Keith McEwen.
Closest to the hole was Bob Briden
Longest drive was Bev Bowman.
13 joined us for dinner and song. Which included a couple of ex K-W members, Dan Blokland and Richard Johnstone.
We did a lot of singing, wood shedding, and tags.
All in all a great night.
Next year is booked for Tues June 7th.
We hope more golfers will join in the fun!
Kitchener, On, March 17, 2015: Barbershoppers from the past and present joined together on Tuesday evening (St. Patrick's Day) in celebrating the 90th birthday of one of their own. Lorne Brubacher says he began lying about his age in order to get in the army in the waning years of WWII. But he allowed at the party that we was "coming out of the closet" and finally acknowledging his 90 years.
Friday February 27, 2015, the Twin City Harmonizers performed at the Deaf Blind Ontario's fundraiser "Dining In The Dark". The TCH will be donating their performance fees to Deaf Blind Ontario.
Photo courtesy of Rebecca of Heritage Photography http://www.heritage-photography.ca/
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