Sunshine District
Labor Day Jamboree
August 29 – September 1, 2025, Orlando, FL
LABOR DAY JAMBOREE
The Sunshine District’s Labor Day Jamboree is a fun-filled event where your family and closest friends can enjoy a long weekend together full of music. Not just any music though, but the sweet sounds of Barbershop Harmony! Over the weekend you choose to participate as much or as little as you’d like. A weekend that you and your family will enjoy floating on a lazy river, playing in the wave pool together, taking some time to visit one of the many nearby attractions, tags, tags, and more tags, and of course – live shows featuring your favorite quartets!
This is our final year at the Omni Championsgate Resort, and we’re going out with a blast. The LDJ Team is happy to announce a new agreement has been reached with the Omni regarding recreational singing. Tags in the pool all day? You bet!! Singing is now allowed in all public areas of the resort, including in the wave pool, family pool, lazy river, and more. Rent a cabana and host your own tag party! There might even be a special poolside performance from one of our guest quartets. Please note: The adult pool is still off limits so please, no singing there. Seriously. Also, during quiet hours (between 11pm and 7am), public singing is not permitted. However, we’ll have a room that you can sing in 24 hours a day.
The Labor Day Jamboree has been a Barbershop tradition in Florida (also known as the Sunshine District to us Barbershoppers) for more than 50 years. LDJ is an amazing weekend and those of us who make the annual pilgrimage thoroughly enjoy adding our shared experiences to that legacy.
Please plan on joining us. You’ll be glad you did.
By the way, we’ll be announcing the new venue for 2026 on the Sunday night show. See you at LDJ!
Registration & Shows
PERFORMERS FROM LDJ 2024:
Three and a Half Men
The Ladies
Brouhaha
Tofu Concern
Suite Life
Radiant
Sirens
Tonal Fusion
Meanwhile
Bourbon Brothers
Limitless
and more!
OMNI ORLANDO RESORT AT CHAMPIONSGATE
1500 Masters Boulevard
Championsgate, Florida 33896
Surrounded by 36 holes of championship golf and 15 acres of recreation, the Omni resort is one of the nation’s premier golf, meeting and leisure destinations. In addition to world-class golf, the resort offers a signature full-service spa, sparkling pools and a lazy river, making it the perfect getaway hotel for adults and children alike.
The LDJ block is now open for reservations. Act fast to get the lowest rates.
Please be aware that access to most amenities at the Omni hotel is limited to overnight guests and those with a valid ResortPass, and a room key is required for access to the pool area.
For those staying offsite, Omni pool and cabana Day Passes can sometimes be purchased via ResortPass. Self-parking at the Omni is $5 for registered LDJ attendees driving in for the day.
Omni Driving Directions
FROM ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – 25 MINUTES/32 MILES
Take the South exit to 417 South. Take 417 South and follow the signs to I-4 West. Take I-4 West 3 miles past the Walt Disney World® Resort exits to Exit 58. Take Exit 58 and bear right to the ChampionsGate main entrance.
DIRECTIONS FROM THE SOUTH – VIA FLORIDA TURNPIKE NORTH
Follow the Florida Turnpike North to Exit 249, Osceola Parkway, and turn left. Follow Osceola Parkway to the Greenway (417). Take 417 South and follow the signs to I-4 West. Take I-4 West to Exit 58. Once you exit, make a right onto ChampionsGate Boulevard. At the second stop light, turn right onto Masters Boulevard. The hotel is on the left.
DIRECTIONS FROM THE NORTH – VIA FLORIDA TURNPIKE SOUTH
Follow the Turnpike South from Ocala – Take Turnpike South to exit 259 to I-4. Take I-4 West to exit 58. Once you exit, make a right onto ChampionsGate Blvd., and the resort will be two traffic lights down on your right.
DIRECTIONS FROM THE EAST – VIA I-4 WEST
Follow I-4 West. Take Exit 58. Bear right off the ramp. Pass through the gates of ChampionsGate. At the second stop light, turn right onto Masters Boulevard. The hotel is on the left.
DIRECTIONS FROM THE WEST – VIA I-4 EAST
Follow I-4 East to Exit 58. Turn left off the ramp. Enter ChampionsGate gates. At the second stop light, turn right onto Masters Boulevard. The hotel is on the left.
Friday, August 29
4:00PM Check-In – Omni Hotel
7:30PM Early Registration – Championsgate Room
8:00PM Welcome Reception * – Championsgate
Saturday, August 30
ALL DAY Enjoy Time at the Pools
9:00AM – 9:45AM Early Registration – Championsgate
10:00AM – 11:00AM Grapefruit League Quartet Contest * – Championsgate
5:00PM – 6:00PM Registration – Championsgate
6:30PM Late Registration – National Prefunction
7:00PM Saturday Jamboree Show * – National Ballroom A
9:45PM Afterglow * – Championsgate
Sunday, August 31st
ALL DAY Enjoy Time at the Pools
5:00PM – 6:00PM Registration – Championsgate
6:30PM Late Registration – National Prefunction
7:00PM Sunday Spectacular Show * – National Ballroom A
9:45PM Afterglow * – Championsgate
Monday, September 1st
11:00AM Check-Out – Omni Hotel
GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE NOVICE QUARTET CONTEST
ARE YOU IN A NOVICE QUARTET? Do you want a shot at winning a trophy and gold medals?
Then the Grapefruit League Novice Quartet Contest at Labor Day Jamboree is for you! The winner will have the opportunity to open the Saturday Night Jamboree Show. Quartets will sing two songs in the Barbershop Style. The winning quartet’s name will be placed on the Rik Ogden traveling trophy. This is a great chance to put a quartet together and become the stars of Labor Day Jamboree!
Contest Entry will be available soon!
Join us on Saturday morning at 10 in the Championsgate room for some brand new quartets!
If you’re only coming to support a friend or family member singing in the Novice Contest and don’t want to buy a full registration, there’s now a $10 Novice Contest ONLY ticket option for sale onsite.
- The quartet cannot contain more than two members who have been a finalist in any District/Regional Contest or have competed in International Competition (including BHS NextGen or Seniors, SAI, HI, or MBHA) within the past 10 years.
- No more than one member who has been a District/Regional Champion, or International Finalist (including BHS NextGen or Seniors, SAI, HI, or MBHA) within the past 10 years.
- Last year’s champs are not eligible unless they change two members and the quartet name
- Registrations are not required to participate as a competitor in the novice contest. However, registrations ARE required for all those attending LDJ events, including the shows and novice contest. So – for those only planning to compete and that’s it, no registration is needed.
