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Old Apr 11th 2008, 12:09 pm
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Competition time again! Wish us luck!!!! (singing)
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What competition are you entering?
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Originally Posted by Morwenna
Competition time again! Wish us luck!!!! (singing)
Happy singing, good luck.

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Old Apr 11th 2008, 12:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Morwenna
Competition time again! Wish us luck!!!! (singing)
Good luck Morwenna have fun
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Hey - have fun, you jet-setting (inter-province) glamour girl, you
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Good luck Morwenna Von Trap!!!!! Fingers crossed
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Good Luck Morw! Enjoy the trip.
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Hope you win Morwenna and enjoy Vancouver
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Have an enjoyable trip and good luck with the competition
Like to go across the bridge to see you compete but family from Abbey is visiting every weekend now
All the best. WIN!WIN!
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Thanks everyone for your good wishes!

We had a fantabulous weekend, and we came 2nd in our section (mid-sized choruses) and finished in 4th place overall (out of 18 choruses)

So I have two nice shiny new medals to collect dust now!

For anyone who doesn't know what I'm on about .... it's a form of female "barbershop" singing, the "Sweet Adelines".

It started in America (obviously) as an offshoot from the men's singing, and is now an International Organisation. Our region 26, (Western Canada) has some of the very finest choruses, and the girls that won our competition this time competed at the Internationals last year and were placed 3rd in the World!

Our Chorus:
http://www.rhythmoftherockies.org/

International: http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/

Checkout the Sweet Ads site for a chorus near you ...... If you like to sing (and are female!), you don't HAVE to be a wonderful trained singer. It's about taking ordinary women with ordinary voices and making extraordinary music!

It's fun, exciting and interesting, and a fabulous way to make a whole bunch of new friends if you are a stranger in a strange land! There are also chapters in the UK, btw, so there may well be one near to where you live, even if you haven't moved to Canada yet!
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Originally Posted by Morwenna
Thanks everyone for your good wishes!

We had a fantabulous weekend, and we came 2nd in our section (mid-sized choruses) and finished in 4th place overall (out of 18 choruses)

So I have two nice shiny new medals to collect dust now!

For anyone who doesn't know what I'm on about .... it's a form of female "barbershop" singing, the "Sweet Adelines".

It started in America (obviously) as an offshoot from the men's singing, and is now an International Organisation. Our region 26, (Western Canada) has some of the very finest choruses, and the girls that won our competition this time competed at the Internationals last year and were placed 3rd in the World!

Our Chorus:
http://www.rhythmoftherockies.org/

International: http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/

Checkout the Sweet Ads site for a chorus near you ...... If you like to sing (and are female!), you don't HAVE to be a wonderful trained singer. It's about taking ordinary women with ordinary voices and making extraordinary music!

It's fun, exciting and interesting, and a fabulous way to make a whole bunch of new friends if you are a stranger in a strange land! There are also chapters in the UK, btw, so there may well be one near to where you live, even if you haven't moved to Canada yet!
Woah, well done the Sweet Adelines...good way to cure homesickness you reckon, eh?
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Old Apr 14th 2008, 3:01 am
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Originally Posted by AlvicSK
Woah, well done the Sweet Adelines...good way to cure homesickness you reckon, eh?
Well it was good for me, but it's horses for courses naturally!

I found this group by researching online before I came over .... never having sung "a capella harmony" before, and it looked like fun, and a great way to meet people with whom I had something in common. So once I was established here ... about 2-3 months after landing, I just went along. Jan 2006 I joined. I never dreamed I would learn so much about singing though, and I can really say I have made some wonderful friends!

I called the contact person, who luckily lived quite close to me, and she offered to pick me up that first evening. After that I suggested that we take it in turns to drive in. It was a good way of getting a regular "visit" and we got on very well from the start!
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Congrats Morwenna, are you in the any of the photo's on the website?
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Old Apr 14th 2008, 5:14 am
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Originally Posted by Lorna_D
Congrats Morwenna, are you in the any of the photo's on the website?
This is me (circled) in the 2006 contest photo ... I'll post some of this year's when I have time... tomorrow maybe?
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Well done Morwenna and congrats!!! Nice photo of you with the group.
One request ,any You tube video of your quartet singing?
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