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Northeastern District Fall 2014 District Convention & Contests Northeastern District Barbershop Harmony Society Fall 2014 District Convention & Contests International Quartet Prelims Contests District Quartet Contests International Chorus Prelims Contest District Chorus Contest October 17-18, 2014 Rhode Island Convention Center One Sabin Street Providence, RI 02903 HOST Providence, RI Chapter The Narragansett Bay Chorus Together Making The Music That’s Making A Difference Welcome to Schedule of Events Rhode Island! Location of Events: We hope you’ll RICC: Rhode Island Convention Center (5th Floor) HQH: Headquarters Hotel - Omni Hotel come back soon Please note: Asterisks below denote that the posted start time is approximate and depends on the duration of the previous event. 1. Friday, October 17 - Quartet Semi-Finals - page 13 FROM DESCRIPTION / EVENT LOC 4:00 PM NED House of Delegates Meeting 4:00 PM Registration at RICC (to 9 PM) 4:00 PM RICC Dressing Rooms - Opens to Competitors 5:30 PM RICC Ballroom A open for spectator seating 6:00 PM Int’l Prelims & District Quartet Semi-Finals Contest FEATURING 10:00 PM Announcements & Quartet Contest Results 10:45 PM Quartet Evaluations (except Finalists) HQH 11:00 PM Afterglow HQH 15 TIME BHS, NED CHORUS CHAMPIONS 2. Saturday, October 18 - Chorus Contest - page 21 INTERNATIONAL SENIOR MEDALISTS FROM DESCRIPTION / EVENT LOC 8:00 AM Registration at RICC (to 3 PM) 8:00 AM RICC Dressing Rooms open to competitors COLLEGE QUARTET FAVORITES 10:00 AM Joe Barbershop Chorus WARM-UP, RICC Rm 557 10:30 AM RICC Ballroom A open for spectator seating SWEET ADELINES REGIONAL MEDALIST6 11:00 AM International Preliminary & District Chorus Contest 12:30 PM - - - Stretch Break after Chorus #8 - - - MIXED A CA3PELLA QUARTET 2:00 PM Contest Ends. Please remain for Special Presentations! 2:00 PM Announcements & Chorus Contest Results RICC FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 2:30 PM Chorus Evals - after Results - RICC-A & Dressing Rms (401) 437-6043 3. Saturday, October 18 - Quartet Finals - page 29 FOR TICKETS CALL FROM DESCRIPTION / EVENT LOC (401) 921-6800 OR GO TO 5:00 PM RICC Dressing Rooms open to competitors www.oceanstatetheatre.org 5:30 PM Registration at RICC (to 7:30 PM) 6:30 PM RICC Ballroom A open for spectator seating 7:00 PM Int’l. Prelims & District Quartet Finals Contest Best of Luck to our 9:00 PM NEDAC Show! RICC Chapter Quartets! 9:30 PM Announcements & Quartet Contest Results 10:30 PM Quartet Finalist Evaluations HQH 10:30 PM Afterglow HQH Curtain Call & Trade Secret Please note: the lyrics for the two National Anthems To all other competitors… that are sung at the beginning of contests can be found on page 37 of this program. Thank you! “Bust a Lip!” Northeastern District Contest ~ Fall 2014 Northeastern District Contest ~ Fall 2014 Page 2 Page 3 Murray’s Welcome - continued WWelcome to the e are here to celebrate the music, since Wthat is what brings us together. The 2014 Fall NED Convention songs we sing in the barbershop style, making in beautiful Providence, Rhode Island! chords ring is what it is all about. So let’s sing songs, tags and have a great time! s we are enjoying this time together, n behalf of the members of the Ahelp me thank Mike Maino and his local ONortheastern District Board of Directors, committee and Dave Cole and the Events Team welcome to the Northeastern District 2014 for making this a great weekend. I have had convention. We are very pleased that you are some experience behind the scenes, and I know with us this weekend, and we hope that you that they do a great job making it look effortless. have a wonderful time. Yours in harmony, his Convention marks the start of an Timportant experiment the District is trying in 2015. We are inviting any quartet or chorus that wishes to participate in the 2015 Murray Phillips District Convention and Contest to join us President, Northeastern District without having to qualify in the spring, and Barbershop Harmony Society to make the event an exciting weekend fi lled with Gold Medal Moments. The International Quartet Preliminary Contest also will be held in conjunction with the District Convention, instead of in the spring. This will give our quartets additional time to get coaching and to raise funds to attend International the following summer. This is being implemented at this convention for the fi rst time, so we welcome our quartet competitors hoping to qualify for the International Competition in Pittsburgh, PA June 28 to July 5, 2015. We are honored e are eager for chapters and individuals to have you with us! Wto consider developing activities that would happen during the spring to replace KJ McAleesejergins division contests. A festival, a youth event, a Regional Director woodshedding weekend, a harmony school for Region 1 & 2 - Northeast Regions your chapter or Division - these are all ideas HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL worth exploring, and the District Board will NASHVILLE, TN be looking for ways to assist you to bring your ideas to life. You probably have a better idea Thank you for joining us! just waiting to be brought to life. Let us know (and for your supreme effort at our what we can do to help make it happen. Harmony Explosion Camp Northeast cont. > this past summer!) Northeastern District Contest ~ Fall 2014 Northeastern District Contest ~ Fall 2014 Page 4 Page 5 OUR 52nd ANNUAL SHOW 2014 Fall District Contests Judging Panel I’M YOUR PUPPET! Featuring Contest Administrator (C.A.) Woody Woods RMD THE SILK CITY CHORUS Associate C.A. Jim Haggerty FWD With Special Guests Associate C.A. Brian O’Leary NED Music Judges John Burri EVG Steve Delehanty NED/MAD Rod Sgrignoli RMD Presentation Judges Sean Devine MAD George Gipp SUN Mark Kettner DIX Singing Judges Jimmy Barr DIX Matthew Gifford NZABS John Ward MAD MAIN STREET QUARTET •2014 International Third Place Bronze Medalist• General Information - All Contests Please - no fl ash photography, noisy cameras or use of light-producing focus or red-eye reduction camera functions - as each does interfere with and distract the performers. Quiet Please! Quiet must prevail outside the entrance to the auditorium and in the concourse areas, in fairness to the competing quartets and LEMON SQUEEZY choruses. Smoking is prohibited at all times in all areas. No food or drink is allowed in the auditorium. Please turn OFF all pagers, •2014 International Fifth Place Bronze Medalist• cell phones & alarm watches. You don’t need those now! Also, •2012 International Collegiate Champion• crying or restless infants and children are like good ideas, the From Stockholm, Sweden quicker they are carried out, the better! Enjoy the performances! The University of Connecticut Admittance to the Auditorium Entry and exit are permitted between contestants during the contest PUPPET ARTS THEATER sessions, but please do so quickly and quietly. Contestants will not be introduced while people are moving about the auditorium. No and the one may leave or enter the auditorium while contestants are on stage. Conard High School Men’s Ensemble No Recordings - Audio or Video - Camera or Phone Copyright law strictly limits the use of audio or video recording Saturday, January 24, 2015 during any performance. No camera, audio or video device, whether or not in use, is permitted in the place of performance 1:30PM and 7:30PM without permission of the Society. Any person found possessing any such device will be required to leave immediately. The tape, Manchester High School • Manchester, CT fi lm, memory card or other recording medium or device will be FOR TICKETS confi scated and any unauthorized recordings erased or destroyed. Enforcement of the copyright law protects you and us; but most www.silkcitychorus.org importantly, it protects the copyright owners who make our music and performance possible. or call Thank you! Your support and cooperation are greatly appreciated. 860-298-8820 Northeastern District Contest ~ Fall 2014 Northeastern District Contest ~ Fall 2014 Page 6 Page 7 Convention Team - Credits NED EVENTS COMMITTEE New England David Cole NED VP - EVENTS Marshall Wagner HOUSE MANAGER Voices In Harmony Dave Sweet COMPETITOR SERVICES Backstage Harmony, Inc. InternaƟonal Medalist Chorus, Nashua, NH Larry Newth COMPETITOR SERVICES Hotel/RICC Robert Bradley NED VP - CSLT, STAGE MANAGEMENT Wishes best of luck to all the Vikki Bradley STAGE MANAGEMENT - ASSISTANT Bill & Linda Mitchell REGISTRATIONS, ON-SITE NED Quartets and Choruses NED SECRETARY, REGISTRATIONS, ONLINE who cross the stage this weekend! Antonio Lombardi Flo Ragusa ON-SITE JUDGES SERVICES Debbie Cole NEDshed/Harmony Marketplace Michel & Kellie vanRavestyn PHOTOGRAPHY (Haverhill, MA) PMA Industries & Event Technology LIGHTING & SOUND NED VP - MARKETING & PR, Steve Salamin PROGRAM EDITOR / PERF. PHOTOS NED CONTEST & JUDGING COMMITTEE Kirk Young NED VP - CONTEST & JUDGING We’ll help you... Jeff Forman JUDGES HOSPITALITY Brian O’Leary COMPETITOR REGISTRATION Alan Lamson COMPETITOR LIAISON PANEL LIAISON Curt Roberts CANDIDATES Steve Tramack For more informaƟon, go to NEDCON 2015 LIAISON www.newenglandvoicesinharmony.org Jim Nolan Steve Plumb IPDR-C&J Michael Klein NED - IPP, JUDGES TRANSPORTATION Steve Wheaton AWARDS HOST CHAPTER COMMITTEE TRADE SECRET QUARTET Mike Maino & HOST CHAPTER CO-CHAIRMEN Antonio Lombardi Jerry Xavier PRESIDENT - PROVIDENCE CHAPTER The Northeastern District GREATLY APPRECIATES the incredible effort of the Providence chapter - the NARRAGANSETT BAY CHORUS and their families - in support of this weekend’s contests. Thank you! SSPECIALPECIAL TTHANKSHAN KS TTOO: Wishes all competing choruses Our Judges and Presenters for the weekend! and quartets the best of luck. Rhode Island Convention Center John McGinn - Senior Director of Sales For information on hiring Trade Secret for your Alyssa Oliveira - Senior Event Manager show, contact Mike Maino at 401-437-6043 or [email protected] YOU! Our NED friends and volunteers! Northeastern District Contest ~ Fall 2014 Northeastern District Contest ~ Fall 2014 Page 8 Page 9 New Date! Plan Ahead Now! The New Bostonians Friendship, Fun, and Good Old Harmony The members of the Boston chapter of Saturday Jan.
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