September 18, 2021

WELCOME!

RiversEdge Chorus is an extraordinary group of women who gather together in celebration of the art form known as barbershop music. We are a chapter of Sweet Adelines International.

We are available throughout the year for performances.

Our popular performances include Patriotic, Slice of America and of course our popular Christmas performance package. We can also tailor our performance to suit your needs.

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WE'RE BACK!!!

After 17 long months of enduring COVID, we are finally back in our rehearsal hall.

During that time, we met every Monday evening on ZOOM, learning new music, practicing with the learning tracks, visiting and sharing the trials of dealing with the pandemic. Mind you, ZOOM is not the ideal way to rehearse, but it sure beats not being togeher at all. Just being able to see each other every week was a blessing, and almost all of our members showed their loyalty to the chorus by showing up. Now and then, we would play a game or share some stories of our childhood, and in general, we just enjoyed being together and breaking the monotony of staying at home. We now feel safe enough to meet indoors again, so things are getting back to some normalcy. We are hoping things will keep improving so we can continue to rehearse in person each week.

We are eager to share our love of Barbershop with ladies who love to sing and would like to meet a friendly chorus who is guaranteed to make you feel welcome. If you have sung in school, college, at church or with another group in the past and are wondering where you might find a place to share you musical talents again, we invite you to come visit us any Monday evening at 6:45. Spend an evening with us and discover the joys of making music a cappella style!!

You are welcome to come to any Monday evening rehearsal (there is a map on the website), or you can also click on the "Want to Join Us" link below and fill out the membership inquiry on that page. Our membership chair will contact you and give you more information about our chorus.

We'd love to meet you!

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ON SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2020,

WE LOST A VERY DEAR FRIEND

Memories of Sharon for website3

WE WILL CHERISH OUR TIMES WITH SHARON

AND SHE WILL REMAIN IN OUR HEARTS ALWAYS!

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A LITTLE INFO ABOUT OUR DIRECTOR

Since Bianca Dixon became our director in July of 2019, we have had a wonderful time.

Bianca is knowledgeable in both vocal production and the barbershop style of singing,

which she shares with us every week. She is also full of fun and keeps our rehearsals

interesting and very enjoyable. Most evenings, we are surprised that the rehearsal time

is almost over and it seems we just got started! She is a real positive element for us!

We invite you to come see how much fun we have at our rehearsals!

As the administrator of our web site, I was going to take down the following picture from the website, since I put it up here quite a while ago. However, since it illustrates the humor in our chorus, and Bianca still uses this tool to remind us about placement,

I decided to leave it up for a while longer!

There is a cute story behind the photo below:

When Bianca came to audition to become director of our chorus, she gave us a

little tip about how to focus our sound better. She said "put your index fingers

under your nose, kind of like you had a mustache, and then try to sing a little

above your "mustache." We tried it, and it worked well for us.

So, last night (6-17-19), when she arrived on her first night as our director,

we were all standing on the risers in our "mustaches" and shouted,

"WELCOME, BIANCA!"

Needless to say, she was surprised and almost fell down laughing -

just the reaction we wanted!

It was a great way to welcome her and let her know we are behind her 100%!!