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
9:00 am Introduction/WarmUps
10:00 am Basic Barbershop/Tag
11:30 am Lunch (provided)
12:30 pm Group Rehearsals
2:15 pm Sectionals
4:00 pm Video show
5:00 pm Dinner (provided)
6:20 pm Onstage Run through
7:00 pm Show
Festival Points of Contact:
Jack Klotzbach, President,Norfolk Chapter, (757) 619-6671, president@commodorechorus.org
Suzi Nelson, Region 14 YWiH Coordinator, (757) 871-0375, 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 5th place Finalist quartet, Capri and the men's clinicians are the 2009 Mid-Atlantic District Champion Quartet, 'Round Midnight.
