GLC 2010 District Champs!

April 23-24th, 2010 Pioneer District Barbershop Convention and Competition. The Pioneer District covers all of the State of Michigan and the Western Border of Canada. The Grand Rapids Barbershop Chapter Great Lakes Chorus competed with 31 'riser rats' singing. We sang 2 songs made popular in the 60s with Dream A Little Dream Of Me sung by "Mama Cass" Elliot of the hippie pop group The Mamas & The Papas and I'm Into Something Good (the 2nd arranged by our own Derek Hatley) by Herman's Hermits. So we dressed for the period wearing tie-dye t-shirts, long wigs, etc for that hippie look. We scored a total of 802 points at 66.8% and placed 1st as 2010 District Chorus Champions! It has been 10 years since we last won this honor. It's was crowded at the top this year, we beat out Lansing at 2nd Place by only 7 points or 0.5% and they beat Detroit-Oakland by 1 point.

GLC Chapter quartet Harmony Transfer sang on stage their swan song not only as is the tradition of the last year's District Senior Quartet Champs but also for the quartet's official retirement after 16 years.

There were many collegiate quartets competing this year, GLC Chapter quartet Fountain Street Four competed both for Collegiate and District Reps to Internationals. They performed well and scored 749 points and 62.4% ranking 3 out of 5 for Collegiate. They just missed qualify for the Rep Finals but did agreed to be Mic Testers for the Finals. With the pressure off they really wowed the crowd and got a standing ovation.


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