May 20, 2022

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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GETTING BACK TO NORMAL

On February 19th, 2022 we had our first coaching since COVID began.

It has been a tough couple of years, but the chorus remained

united and stayed together. Now it's time to get back to the

joy of working together to improve again.

Nancy Kurth, a talented and knowledgeable coach, spent a wonderful

day working with the chorus to get back to the basics, and helping us to

move toward a good unit sound. It was rewarding to work hard and

see lots of improvement through the day. We have several new members,

and they enjoyed learning more about how to sing Barbershop.

We had a lovely lunch catered by the Breezeway Cafe, and of course,

we went out to dinner after the coaching. All in all, it was a great day,

and we are all energized and excited to be back on track again.

We heard that the mask mandate will be lifted on March 12,

so it's even more reason to be excited!! YAY!!!!!

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Nancy and Bianca

MANY THANKS, NANCY FOR SHARING YOUR EXPERTISE WITH US!

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DO YOU LOVE TO SING?

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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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!

February, 2022 - I started to take it down, but it shows a lot of who we are,

so it's gonna stay up for a while longer! Enjoy, and come visit - you won't be sorry!

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!"