VOLUME 25 Monday, June 29, 2015 Number 12 WHAT'S UP DOC? (Calendar) Tues Jun 23 Sun-Sun Mon Jul 6 Mon Jul 13 Sat Jul 18 Mon Jul 20 Sun-Sun Fri-Sat Sep 25-26 Fri-Sun Oct 16-18 Flint Chapter's Annual Dead Creek Picnic, Frankenmuth Heritage Park; 6:00-10:00 Jun 28-Jul 5 International Convention & Contests; Pittsburgh, PA Music Team Meeting; Royal Oak Middle School; 6:30 p.m. DOC Chapter Picnic, Sylvan Lake Community Park (Sylvan Lake) 5pm-9pm; (food is about 6:00 pm); all invited "Quartet Boot Camp", hosted by Pioneer Quartet Champions Association, Okemos Conference Center Board Meeting; Royal Oak Middle School; 6:30 p.m.; chapter members welcome. Jul 26-Aug 2 Harmony University, held at Belmont University, Nashville, TN "Bush League" (Novice) Quartet Contest and coaching; Gaylord MI Pioneer District Convention & Contest; Kalamazoo, MI; Detroit-Oakland plans to compete. DETAILS ON UPCOMING EVENTS Team Meetings: Normally, the music team will meet on the first Monday and the board will meet on third Monday of month. The meetings are now held in the Music Room at Royal Oak Middle School, starting at 6:30. If you have something to bring to the board or to the music team, talk to Dave Montera and Jim Kunz respectively. Next Performance: We have no chorus performances scheduled to date. We will probably sing a couple of songs at our chapter picnic on July 13th, and we are planning to compete in the District Chorus Contest in Kalamazoo on Saturday, October 17th. If you have a potential singing engagement for us, contact John Balint. Harmony Education Programs: One of the primary purposes of our Society is to educate our members and people throughout the world about this art of singing barbershop harmony. You can see, in the calendar above (and the one on the back), some programs specifically designed for that purpose. Start with the international convention, held this week in Pittsburgh. Here people can see the best our Society has to offer. If you can't make it to Pittsburgh, take advantage of the webcast to witness some of the events. Go to the Society website: www.barbnershop.org and follow the links to the Pittsburgh webcast. Next week, July 9-11, CMU is hosting Harmony Explosion Camp for high school aged singers. The following weekend, July 18, is a Quartet Boot Camp--a one day education program for quartets, hosted by the Quartet Champions Association, right here in Pioneer District. And the best of the education programs is Harmony University, held, for the second year at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, at the end of July and beginning of August. This school not only holds classes for individual barbershoppers and for quartets; but it has quite an offering for Directors and Music Educators throughout the nation. Quartet Boot Camp: takes place on Saturday, July 18, at the Okemus Conference Center. They are limited to 15 quartets due to available space, but they only have six quartets registered so far. Check with Roger Lewis to sign up your quartet.... You do not need to be a "registered" quartet. You do need to know at least two songs. You will learn to sing better, tune better, balance better, perform better -- both personally and as a quartet -- and have fun doing it!! The program is being run by Pioneer District's QCA (Quartet Champion Association). The cost for the day, including lunch, is just $50 per quartet; and if you go on to compete in the Bush League Novice Quartet Competition (in September) you get the $50 Bush League registration refunded to you by the QCA. For more information, contact Roger Lewis at rjlewiscmc@aol.com DOC Picnic: Our chapter picnic will be held on Monday, July 13, in place of our regular rehearsal. It will be at the Sylvan Lake Community Center. The address for the Community Center is 2456 Pontiac Dr., Sylvan Lake MI 48320. DOC is providing brats, burgers, hot dogs, buns, beer & pop. We expect you to bring some sort of dish to pass. No other details yet; George Burkett and Pete Peters will be looking for help with this. • OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS --Harmony College/Directors College/Performing Arts College: July 26 - Aug 2, 2015 at Belmont University in Nashville TN (Register online at www.harmonyuniversity.org) --Golf Outing: Pitch Pipe Classic, Sunday, Aug 9, 2015, Royal Scot Golf & Bowl in Lansing; see upcoming district events on district web site: www.PioneerDiostrict.org --Bush League (Novice) Quartet Contest, Sep 25 & 26, 2015; Gaylord, MI. Go to website: Harmoniemeisters.org