Sunshine District was well represented at the Barbershop Harmony Societies Mid-Winter Convention held in Costa Mesa, CA. In International Seniors Quartet competition, Easy Street quartet brought home 2nd place medals with a score of 1352 points or an average of 75.1%. Scoresheets for the Seniors Quartet competition are HERE.

In the Youth Chorus Festival, the Hurricane of Harmony chorus of Tampa, FL, directed by Debbie Cleveland took home Superior ratings, earning the Plateau A Award as well as the Audience Favorite Award. Scoresheets for the Youth Chorus Festival are HERE.

The Sunshine District is in need of new risers! “SUNrisers”, if you will.

An anonymous donor has come forward to match dollar for dollar up to the cost of the risers. 

We will need these as we host BHS International in Orlando in July 2018…but then they’re ours to use at our conventions.

The risers are SICO brand, and are the foldable, stadium style kind. Very nice, easily maneuverable…but also expensive. About $1200 per section. We need 11 sections which means they will cost around $15,000. We will keep them after International and use them for our District Conventions for many years to come…so this will benefit all SUN choruses! Help us purchase them today! Your donation is tax deductible. You can use the button below to go to a page on Eventbrite where you can donate any amount you wish to the project.

We would like to buy the risers in time for a test at the 2018 Spring Convention March 9 – 11, 2018.

So, now is a great time to get the most bang for your donation dollar. Any size donation is welcome!

Click here to make a tax deductible donation to the SUNriser project

If you or your Chapter would like to send a check for your donation, please make checks out to:

Sunshine District
and send them to:
Sunshine District
13948 Sheffield Court
Wellington, FL 33414

The Sunshine District is in need of new risers! “SUNrisers”, if you will.

We will need these as we host BHS International in Orlando in July 2018…but then they’re ours to use at our conventions.

The risers are SICO brand, and are the foldable, stadium style kind. Very nice, easily maneuverable…but also expensive. About $1200 per section. We need 11 sections.

We will keep them after International and use them for our District Conventions for many years to come…so this will benefit all SUN choruses! Help us purchase them today! Your donation is tax deductible. You can use the button below to go to a page on Eventbrite where you can donate any amount you wish to the project.

Click here to make a tax deductible donation to the SUNriser project

If you or your Chapter would like to discuss purchasing/sponsoring a full section of these risers, please contact Treasurer Dave Kannberg at daveatcs@att.net

In addition to our regular mix of Quartet, Mixed Quartet, VLQ,  and Chorus Competitions, this fall will feature Shows on both Friday and Saturday night after the competitions are over. On Friday, the Sunshine District Association of Quartet Champions (SDAQC) show will feature Keepsake who are celebrating their 25th Anniversary of winning International Gold along with Rooftop Records and the SDAQC Chorus. On Saturday, along with the newly crowned Quartet Champions, and our International Qualifying chorus will be Main Street, our current International Quartet Champions. Our other International medalist quartets, Signature and Throwback may also be in attendance. So, come join us for a great weekend of Barbershop at it’s best!

Main Street wins International Gold medals with a total score of 8354 or a 92.8% average. Signature wins International Silver medals with a score of 8329, a 92.5% average. Throwback wins International Bronze medals with a score of 8149, a 90.5 average. Score sheets can be found here: http://www.barbershop.org/files/INTL20170705_QF.OSS1.pdf

Three quartets in the top 10, Signature, Main Street and Throwback with Rooftop Records mike testing for Saturday night’s finals! Fuego placed #40. Tampa Heralds of Harmony singing 11th today, good luck guys!

Signup for the 2017 Spring convention webcast is now live!, For general information about how this works, you can go to our webcast information page HERE, or click the button below to go to the signup process. The cost is a mere $25.

Signup for the Spring 2017 Webcast

Be a Judge for a day by bidding for the “Best Seat in the House” auction at the following website: http://bestseat.org/?District=SUN

For more information about the program you can check out the Best Seat in the House website.

Easy Street, our current District Senior’s Champs, brought home 5th place medals in the International Seniors Quartet contest at the International Mid-Winter Convention held in San Antonio, Texas this past week. They scored a total of 1322 points or an average of 73.4%. Well done, guys! Full score sheets for the Seniors competition are here.

Gentlemen (and Ladies!). It is that time again. Yes, it really is! A Spring Convention just around the corner. The CJ-20 system is now ready for you to sign up for Spring 2017. So don’t delay, get your entry in to Spring sing! Remember, mixed quartets and combined choruses need to use the SUN web site to register while BHS quartets and choruses need to use the CJ-20 system on the BHS web site (ebiz/members only). The cutoff date for registering to sing is February 10, 2017. I know it is holiday time and everyone is busy but get thinking about it now and sign up! I will send out a note at the first of the new year to remind you but at that point you barely have a month left to sign up. Make your plans now! And have a wonderful holiday season!!

Steve

Stephen Janes,
SUN VP for Contest and Judging