Shades Of Grey

1999 District Senior Division Champs

Ronald Thomet - Tenor
Gary 'Twig' Branch - Bari
John Baker - Bass
Lynwood 'Bud' Kraft - Lead

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Hear An Audio Preview
SOG- Barefoot Days


Sing Karaoke With This Award Winning Quartet
SOG- Let Me Call You Sweetheart





SOG- With A Smile And A Song




BARI- Gary Branch is a retired CSX Railroad Safety Engineer and lives with his wife Phyllis near Allendale.

BASS- John Baker previous quartets include Barbershop Style. He has sung in five international competitions with GLC and has won two Novice quartet championships. John has starred in the barbershop quartet for 2006 Grand Rapids Civic Theatre's production of The Music Man. Also he and his wife Shirley have taken on the family tradition of hosting the longest running annual Grand Rapids barbershop outing, The Corn Roast.

LEAD- Bud Kraft is a retired Tooling/Manufacturing Engineer from Ridgeview Industires and lives with his wife Cindy on a 10 acre hobby farm near Byron Center.

TENOR- Ron Thomet is a retired Steelcase Engineer and lives with his wife Rose near Lowell.


This Chapter quartet was formed in 1997 primarily to compete in the Pioneer District Seniors Quartet Contest. The original quartet with Dick Weirich on tenor won the contest in 1999. Shortly afterward Dick and his wife JoAnn moved to Gulf Shores, AL. Soon afterwards the quartet acquired the services of Ron Thomet as tenor and in 2000 they won the right to represent the Pioneer District at the International Seniors Quartet Competition in Jacksonville, FL at the society's Mid Winter Convention. Shades of Grey wowed the audience with their performace!

Bass Jack Sidor passed away in 2007.  He was a retired Property Appraiser from Blandford Appraisers and lived with his wife Alverne (a Sweet Adeline) in Belmont.

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When they are not snowbirding in Florida they entertain audiences all over Western Michigan. One of the qualifications for an official Senior's quartet is that their combined ages total 250 years or over! Fred Barr sang as bass in 2008. In 2009 'youngster' John Baker took over as bass so the quartet no longer qualifies as a Senior Quartet... yet.




Shades of Grey
1999 Pioneer District Seniors Champions
Top: Dick Wierick & Jack Sidor. Bottom: Lynwood 'Bud' Kraft & Gary Branch







Shades of Grey
Gary Branch, Jack Sidor, Lynwood 'Bud' Kraft, and Ronald Thomet