Tyler Bosma's blog

What did this hardworking group of folks do to celebrate the first Saturday in November? They spent their day planning 2025 chorus activities. There's a lot to wrangling a chorus, from choosing and buying music, designing activities and programs for visitors, creating posters and graphics for shows and outreach, organizing gigs, keeping track of membership and finances, etc. And that's before we even start to learn music! Thank you to this group of hardworking folks for keeping this ship afloat.

Thanks to Dave for hosting and supplying delicious breakfast!

And a super-huge thank you to our director, who puts up with all of us, and spent HER BIRTHDAY doing all of this stuff. What a gem. Happy birthday, Elizabeth!

The SeaChordsmen had great representation at Harmony Platoon in the run-up to the Evergreen District Convention earlier this month! For those who don't know -- Harmony Platoon is an opportunity for singers to learn and be "quartet-ready" on five songs, and then get together with others who've also learned the songs. Platoon consists of one and a half days of pick-up quartetting in a very informal competition setting. It's fun to sing with other singers (the organizers specifically try to avoid having chorus-mates sing together in quartets), so there are lots of folks to meet and sing with. Here we are participating:

So, we'll have much more to say about the Evergreen District convention that happened over this last weekend, but let's first celebrate the ten (TEN!) new chorus members who competed for the first time in a convention with us! We had a great group on stage (40 singers plus our director, Elizabeth), and we were so happy to get an EVG weekend under these folks' belts! New members are:

• Lead Michael
• Bass Phil
• Bass Nathan
• Baritone Glenda
• Lead Hannah
• Bass David
• Tenor Melissa
• Lead Rosemary
• Tenor Elise
• Bass Yarden
• Not pictured: Denise 

Hooray for the expanding SeaChordsmen family!

Here are some more photos from our annual summer BBQ in August. You can see that we had a ton of fun. Thanks again to Pete and Jim for hosting us -- we had a great time, delicious food, and song!

A handful of chorus members singing through our contest songs:

Our director, Elizabeth, with her daughter Frances and baby Heidi:

Lead CC!

Thank you so much for sharing your time, wisdom, enthusiasm, and laughs with us this week, Charlene! We had an excellent time soaking up all your good advice!

Look at these happy faces!