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We're Back for the Holidays!

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Our 2022 Holiday Show, We're Back for the Holidays!, was a smashing success! Congratulations to the Ballard Chamber Choir, the Ballard Tenor / Bass Ensemble, the Sound Harmony Chorus, and the SeaChordsmen - including holiday guest singers, and participating quartets for a great show. It truly was quite the day. Here's our recap:

For a little while there, we thought the show may not happen. A not-strategically-placed bean bag chair caught fire, creating quite a bit of smoke and triggering the fire alarm. With an hour left to go before the show started, choruses headed outside and waited for the fire department:

Queen Anne - tree lighting

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A small but mighty contingent from the chorus came to help celebrate the tree lighting in Queen Anne last night. We love supporting the community where we rehearse, and we're always excited to sing, period, and especially when we get a chance to practice our holiday songs right before our Christmas show. Speaking of which -- join us tomorrow (December 11) at 2pm at Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church to hear our full holiday show, We're Back for the Holidays!

Info available here: https://seachordsmen.org/2022holidayconcert

Figgy Pudding 2022 is a wrap!

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The SeaChordsmen were so happy to participate - for the 36th time - in Figgy Pudding, the annual caroling competition to benefit the Pike Market Senior Center & Food Bank! We could not have had more fun, and things could not have gone better! We came in second place for the Best Choral Group category, and we send a hearty congratulations to the first place chorus from Mount Vernon High School. Did you miss all the fun? Here are some ways to re-live the excitement:

Seattle Sings 2022

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The kind folks at the Greater Seattle Choral Consortium shared their photos and video footage from the 2022 Seattle Sings, which happened on October 29, 2022. Check out our performance of these four songs:

  • Moonlight Becomes You
  • You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
  • What Do You Do With the Drunken Sailor
  • Rhythm of Love

We were so glad to be back performing at Seattle Sings!

All-voices holiday concert - GUEST NIGHT!

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We were excited to have some amazing guests with us for our first guest night in preparation for our holiday concert. We had ten folks join us and start learning our two guest songs -- Warm and Fuzzy and Little Saint Nick. Our directors led us through some of the ways barbershop singing is different from much other group and choral singing, and our guests seemed to catch on quick, while having a good time.

Here's the full holiday chorus singing a tag we learned at the end of our warm-up:

Evergreen District competition

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It's been a packed few weeks for the SeaChordsmen, but one highlight was our performance in the Evergreen District Competition in Federal Way on October 22. Our contest set was:

  • Moonlight Becomes You
  • You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me

We've worked hard over the last few years, and we've had some incredible coaches come work with us, too. Our directors' dedication paid off -- our scores were much improved from our last competition performance in 2019.

Check it out:

Seattle Sings 2022

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Seattle Sings was back this year after taking two years away from in-person events due to the Coronavirus. Virtual shows were a fantastic stop-gap, but it was amazing to perform in person again! This year's festival boasted a great lineup, celebrating the depth and breadth of the singing opportunities available in the Seattle Area!

Here's a video of one of our songs from the event: https://youtu.be/TrS6_5Wv0KY

Cheers to Seattle Sings for another successful event. It was great to share the stage with this year's participating choruses.

SeaChordsmen rehearsals -- guests and fun!

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We've been having some great rehearsals lately -- we made good progress in the run-up to our competition in late October, and we did great there, making our directors very proud. We've had a bunch of different guests over the last handful of weeks, and have started working on holiday songs, too. There's so much going on and it's all fun and interesting, and every week is exciting! 

Two of the guests in this photo from just a couple of weeks ago have since joined, so they're not all guests anymore. Welcome to the fold, Warwick and Konstantin!

One of our recent topics of focus was preparing for Seattle Sings, which is coming up this weekend. Here we are shaking the dust off of Rhythm of Love, which will be one of our four performance pieces for that event:

The run up to District Competition - chorus edition

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It's been three years since the last time the Evergreen District competition took place, and we got to join together as choruses to sing. The photo above is from the last district competition in Spokane in 2019. Needless to say, we're all very to finally be back to an in-person barbershop competition! The first round of the quartet competition is in the books -- congratulations to the three SeaChordsmen-affiliated quartets who competed on Friday evening! Now it's time for the chorus competition. Best of luck to the other choruses from around the northwest as they perform. Tickets are still available: https://evgdistrict.com/2022-district-convention/

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