Your monthly news & updates
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Love is in the Air for Ontario Barbershoppers on Valentines Day
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Love—and music—were in the air this Valentines Day as barbershop singers across the province took part in sharing the joy of barbershop for the annual Singing Valentines. In Holland Landing, a class at Park Avenue Elementary School got a treat as
Dino Kotsikas joined
Shenanigans quartet to surprise his daughter with a song and a rose. Dino had only been a barbershopper for one week, having recently become the newest member of the
Upper Canada Chordsmen in Newmarket.
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Nominate a Barbershopper Today
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Join us in celebrating the contributions and achievements of Ontario barbershoppers who helped improve the barbershop art form in Ontario in 2016! Please take the time to nominate a fellow barbershopper who deserves to be celebrated.
Check out the awards
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Early Bird Deadline Approaching Fast
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If you haven't registered yet for this year's Spring Convention in beautiful London, Ontario, time is running out to get the early bird discount. The
Western Division will once again be hosting, and are proud to announce this year's theme:
Spring Sing in the Forest City. Check out the website for even more information on the new mixed quartet contest, program advertising, special hotel rates, Best Seat In The House bidding, judging panel information, Joe Barbershop Chorus, and more!
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SPRING CONVENTION
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
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Save $10 off an adult registration and $5 off a student registration
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Ontario LOVES Extreme Quartetting
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If you love the spine-tingling, hair-raising, lock-'n'-ring,
a cappella thrill of holding your own in a barbershop quartet, you'll love Extreme Quartetting.
Imagine 60-80 well-prepared quartet singers getting together to sing the same great arrangements, each and every one of them knowing their part cold! Registration slots are running out. Don't delay!
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In case you missed it, see why our members are proud to call themselves barbershoppers in this series of interviews from last year.
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Thirty years ago this month, members of APOC organized and hosted a quartet coaching school in Kingston, Ontario.
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- Saturday, March 18: Forest City Fire Chapter Show - London, ON
- Friday, April 7—Saturday, April 8: Ontario District Spring Convention - London, ON
- Saturday, April 29: Oakville Entertainers Chapter Show - Oakville, ON
- Saturday, April 29: Toronto Northern Lights Chapter Show - Toronto, ON
- Sunday, April 30: Sarnia Bluewater Chordsmen Show - Sarnia, ON
- Saturday, May 6: Strathroy Vocal Federation Show - Strathroy, ON
- Saturday, May 6 - Kitchener-Waterloo Twin City Harmonizers Show - Waterloo, ON
- Saturday, May 20: Northumberland Hills Ganaraska Chordsmen Show - Port Hope, ON
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The deadline for submitting content for the March Trillium is March 20
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Photos by: Ash Murrell
Interim Editor: Michael Black
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