Nashville is an interesting city.
No wonder it’s called Music City. The main drag (Broadway) is full of honky tonk bars playing live music and souvenir shops, many of them decorated with a plastic Elvis. There is even music piped through speakers located on street corners, and you better like country, because that’s what they play.
Until the Sweet Adelines International Convention, of course.
Suddenly, Music City was awash in barbershop. And my chorus, Gateway Chorus, was off to compete in the Harmony Classic. There were five choruses invited in the mid-size category, and we were one of them. We competed on Oct. 20, replete in false eyelashes and rouge, dancing shoes and cupid wings. And when the night was over, we had placed third! Not bad at all, though first would have been better. We missed second place by a mere 6 points.
However, we do have another crack at International competition, this time with the “Big Girls”. The Harmony Classic is for those choruses who are good, but not good enough to get into the Internationals on their own. This past spring, when we won in Calgary, we won the opportunity to compete in the Internationals with the rest of the world, one step above the Harmony Classic.
I know this not make much sense for everyone (it barely does to me!), but all in all, it’s good news.
Gateway is on the way up!
By the way, we’re on a membership drive. Anyone wanna join?
Congratulations and good luck–when/where are the Internationals?