CONTACT: Bertram W Gross
VP of PR/Marketing
gross@marshall.edu
SOMETHING NEW FOR VALENTINE’S DAY FROM THE KANAWHA KORDSMEN
Are you looking for a new way to deliver Valentine’s greetings
to your sweetheart? Do you have a spirit of adventure? If so, the
Kanawha Kordsmen have a new opportunity that is designed just for
you. You can join with a Kordsman quartet and sing a pair of love songs to your sweetheart on
Valentine’s Day in 2012.
The
Kanawha Kordsmen have had quartets deliver Singing Valentines
throughout the Kanawha Valley for nearly 20 years and will offer the
traditional service once again in 2012. A quartet will perform two love
songs and give a flower, candy and a card with your valentine’s wish.
We will deliver the Valentine to a person’s workplace, home, or to a
restaurant or other public place. These valentines cost $55 and can be
ordered by calling 304-346-SING or a www.kordsmen .org.
But the
truly adventurous can visit the Kordsmen rehearsals on Monday nights,
January 30 or February 6 to learn two valentine songs and then purchase
a valentine which will be scheduled at a time and place that allows
them to sing with the quartet. The Kordsmen rehearse at Columbia Gas
Auditorium on MacCorkle Avenue at 7:15 P.M. every Monday night.
The
Kanawha Kordsmen are the Charleston affiliate of the Barbershop Harmony
Society. We sing a variety of music a capella (without instruments) in
the barbershop style in quartets and in a 30
man chorus. Visitors are always welcome at our Monday night rehearsals.
CONTACT:
Steve Waggoner
VP of PR/Marketing
4523 Washington Ave SE
(304)544-0847
Charleston Harmony - Max Gold
June 26 at 3 pm, Almost Heaven Chorus-SAI
and Kanawha Kordsmen join forces again this
year with Bayer CropScience and FestivALL
to bring you the "best
of the best", setting the gold
standard in a capella singing, barbershop style.
Charleston
Harmony - Max Gold will feature the 2008 BHS
International gold medalists, MaxQ.
Between these four young men, they have won 9
International gold medals in 5 different quartets & will thrill
you with
their musical virtuosity. Their sound
& excitement they generate is sure to please. Sharing
the stage of the historic WVSU Capitol Center Theatre
at 123 Summers Street with MaxQ, the
Charleston Harmony Youth Chorus, Almost Heaven Chorus & the
Kordsmen with
best the 2011 SAI International Queens of Harmony (aka gold medalists),
Maxx Factor won International on
the heels of making it
all the way to the semi-finals on the
first season of NBC's Sing Off.
Whether
you like to listen to barbershop style music or just
love close vocal harmony, this family friendly concert isn't one that
you want
to miss.
Check
it all out at The
Festival Site. For more information or tickets,
please call (304)925-SING.
You can also buy tickets at Taylor
Books and the Clay Center Box
Office.
Doors open at 2:30 pm, Tickets are $24.00
general admission.
CONTACT:
Steve Waggoner
VP of PR/Marketing
4523 Washington Ave SE
(304)544-0847
Kordsmen Director
Passes
Baton at Cabaret
The
Kanawha Kordsmen of the Barbershop Harmony
Society will
present
their annual
Cabaret this Saturday, July 17th at the Charleston Women’s Club.
Tickets are $16.00 and the doors open at
7:00 pm. The show starts at 7:30 pm and features the Kordsmen and
Chapter quartets. Light refreshments
and legal beverages are included.
The
show also marks the last time that long time
Musical
Director Skipp
Kropp will be leading the
Kordsmen. Kropp is moving to Indianapolis to run a satellite office of
Jackson Kelly Law firm. Taking over the reigns of the chorus will be
the 2009 Frank Shumaker Barbershopper of the Year,
Theodore Rose II. Rose has a wealth of directing & coaching
experience and holds BA degree in Music
Composition (with voice as his primary instrument), sings in the
"audition in" chamber choir,
OPUS. He is the Co-Director, along with Steve Waggoner, of the Almost
Heaven Chorus, the
Charleston Chapter of Sweet Adeline International.>
Recently
Rose
handled the Youth in Harmony Workshop event that was part of Charleston
Harmony at the Clay Center that featured 2009 BHS World Champs, OC
Times, the 2010
SAI Mid Size Chorus World Champs, the Scioto Valley Chorus the Almost
Heaven Chorus, Youth
Workshop Chorus and the Kordsmen.
For
more information on the Cabaret
visit www.kordsmen.org or call (304)346-SING.
