METALINE FALLS PERFORMANCE 

    We had a notable performance on Saturday evening, July 14^th .  Some of you know Jeanne Law from her days in Pacific Sound.  She is now living in the quaint little town of Metaline Falls, north of Spokane and is on the board of the Cutter Theater, who brings lots of entertainment to town.  Saturday was an all barbershop show with RiversEdge Chorus, The Pages of Harmony (the men’s chorus from Spokane), two quartets and headlining the show was the 2005 Championship Men’s Quartet, Realtime (Tim Broersma, Mark Metzger, Tom Metzger and Tim’s father, Doug Broersma standing in for John Newell), who flew over in Doug’s plane and landed at Ione International airport (for those of you who don’t know, Ione is a very tiny town about 15 miles from Metaline Falls with a tiny one strip airport, but since they came from Vancouver, we feel it now qualifies as an International airport  :).  

    It was a very hot day, and the temperature in the theater was in the 90’s, but no one noticed the heat when Realtime stepped on the stage. They put on a fabulous performance for the small but very appreciative audience and received a standing ovation which went on for several minutes until they came back for an encore.  It was a great evening, and we all enjoyed it immensely.  The chorus stayed the night at the beautiful Ruby Creek Lodge on the Pend Oreille River where we laughed and talked into the wee hours.  The next day the Cutter Theater held a BBQ in the park, where we all had fun eating and singing. Good barbershop, a great audience, friendship and good food - it just doesn’t get much better than this, folks!