Diva Day 2010 - Young Women in Harmony Festival
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Robert B. Moore Theatre
Orange Coast College
2701 Fairview Road
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Harborlites is pleased to announce our 5th Annual "Diva Day" Young Women in Harmony Festival! The mission of this program is to introduce the skills, joy, and rewards of singing four-part harmony, barbershop style, to young women throughout Southern California and to nurture and assist choral directors in the teaching of this unique musical art form. This full day event will consist of morning and afternoon clinics and rehearsals, followed by a public performance in the evening with the Harborlites Chorus, the 2005 & 2008 Sweet Adelines International Chorus Champions. Our program is sponsored by the Sourthern California Vocal Association.
The registration fee is $20 per singer. Any female student who is currently enrolled in a high school choral music program is eligible to participate. Sweet Adelines International and Harborlites will cover the costs for all sheet music, practice tapes, rehearsal facilities, guest clinicians, and performance costumes. Lunch and dinner are included for the registered singers, chaparones and music educators.
About eight weeks prior to the festival, participants will receive sheet music and practice recordings for several songs arranged in the barbershop style that will be used as the platform for the Festival.
There will also be a clinic for music educators who would like to participate in a hands-on demonstration of how the barbershop style of music is taught and how it can be used to attract more young women into your choral music programs.
How to Register
Download Forms:
Student Application Form
Registration Deadline is December 1st, 2009
Evening Performance 7:00pm
The evening performance featuring Diva Day Participants and the Harborlites Chorus will be open to the public. Ticket price is only $5. Participants can invite their family and friends to enjoy an evening of Barbershop Music.
Download the Ticket and CD/DVD Order Form. Tickets will be available to purchase at the door. Seating is first come, first served. Doors open at 6:30pm.
About our Clinician : Jennifer Edwards
Jennifer Perry Edwards is the director of vocal music at Gibsonburg High School and Middle School in Gibsonburg, Ohio. Her duties include directing the Mixed Glee, Spotlight Singers Show Choir, Middle School Choir, 6th Grade Chorus, a Young Women in Harmony Chorus, "Golden Harmony," 7 student quartets and the newest addition a vocal jazz/contemporary choir called Center Stage. Jennifer attended Bowling Green State University and the University of Toledo and holds a Bachelors of Music Education and a Masters Degree in Education.
In her spare time, Jennifer loves to sing Barbershop harmony. She has medaled in every regional contest she has competed in! In November of 2008, her current quartet, MOXIE LADIES won the Sweet Adelines International Quartet Championship in Honolulu, Hawaii! At the same Convention and Competition, Jennifer was also honored as the recipient of the 2008 MENC/SAI Music Educator of the Year Award. Jennifer also plays tenor banjo and sings in a traditional Dixieland jazz band known as "Chuck Taylor & The Dixie Squid." The band has performed at several jazz festivals in the U.S. and Europe.
As a teacher and a barbershopper, Jennifer is an advocate for music education and is passionate about exposing her students and other young people to the hobby and genre of Barbershop music. She serves as the Region 17 Young Women in Harmony Coordinator and has recently been appointed to a Youth in Harmony Task Force at Sweet Adelines International. She is the Women’s Chorus director for both the Greater Cincinnatti Harmony Festival and the Singing Buckeyes Harmony Camp. Jennifer is a sought after performer, clinician and coach both locally and throughout the United States.
Jennifer lives in Perrysburg, Ohio with her two yorkies Bailey and Baxter, parrot Gizmo, and her collection of Converse “Chuck Taylor” tennis shoes. It is up to 71 pairs!
Questions? Contact:
Karen Ridout, Harborlites Diva Day Chairman
(714) 847-0787, kridout@socal.rr.com
