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The Big Sky Youth Harmony Rendezvous is generously supported by the Barbershop Harmony Society including Harmony Foundation, the Bud Leabo Memorial Fund of the Evergreen District, and each of the seven Montana chapters of the Society; and by Sweet Adelines International, including the Young Singers Foundation, and each of the five SAI Montana chapters. All the students, vocal music teachers, faculty, and chaperones who have attended any of the four previous Big Sky Youth Harmony Rendezvous wish to thank these sponsors. Without your support the wonderful experiences we have enjoyed these past four years wouldn’t have been possible!
On this page you can learn of additional opportunities to enjoy the barbershop style of singing. Click on any of the addresses preceded by "www" to go directly to the website.
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| On this page you can learn of additional opportunities to enjoy the barbershop style of singing.
You can learn more about the Barbershop Harmony Society through their website: www.barbershop.org or by calling 1 800 876-SING. On their website you can find all 700 chapters, several thousand registered quartets, thousands of published and unpublished song arrangements -- including a number of "Free 'n Easy" arrangemnts available to download and use without cost. |  |
|  | The Harmony Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, was incorporated in 1959 as a charitable subsidiary of the Barbershop Harmony Society.
Harmony Foundation was the single major financial contributor to the Big Sky Youth Harmony Rendezvous for 2006. Each year the Foundation's support enables more than 1,000 kids to attend Harmony Explosion Camps like ours. Collegiate quartet competition scholarships are awarded. Promising college quartets are sponsored to attend Harmony University for intensive coaching. Collegiate tours sponsored by the Foundation introduce close harmony to hundreds of students. Find out more about this wonderful foundation at www.harmonyfoundation.org |
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The Chord Rustlers are the Bozeman chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society: www.chordrustlers.org. They and the other Montana chapters of the Society have been instrumental in developing, supporting, and managing the Big Sky Youth Harmony Rendezvous. Boys: the Barbershop Harmony Society has chapters in Billings, Bozeman, Helena, Missoula, Havre, Great Falls, and Kalispell.
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|  | Remember, to enjoy making this kind of music, you only need 3 other singers, so form your very own quartet or VLQ and keep on singing. Both the Barbershop Harmony Society and Sweet Adelines International sponsor quartet contests for youth up to age 25 years, offering great prizes and wonderful performance opportunities. Rising Star is the name of the SAI quartet contest for young women held annually in mid July. Information about the MBNA Collegiate Barbershop Quartet Contest for young men (you DON’T have to be in college to compete) can be found at www.barbershop.org/cbqc or by calling James Estes at the society headquarters or emailing him at college@barbershop.org . |
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Sweet Adelines International can be reached at www.sweetadelineintl.org or by calling 1 800 992-7464. The Bozeman chapter of SAI has their own website: www.bridgermountainharmony.org Like the Barbershop Harmony Society, Sweet Adelines Interanational offers a wide variety of services, events, and educational opportunities and both have thousands of published and unpublished arrangements of songs in the four part barbershop style.
Girls: Sweet Adelines International has chapters in Bozeman, Helena, Missoula, Billings, or Great Falls; Bozeman and Pocatello have Rising Star choruses; and Great Falls has a chapter of Harmony Incorporated.
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|  | The Young Singers Foundation, under the Sweet Adelines International umbrella, is similar in a number of ways to the Harmony Foundation. They have generously supported the Big Sky Youth Harmony Rendezvous each year since we started. www.youngsingersfoundation.org |
| The ninth annual Harmony Explosion Northwest 2010 will be held July 15 to 17 in Tacoma, Washington, at Pacific Lutheran University. This outstanding vocal music camp was the inspiration for the Big Sky Youth Harmony Rendezvous. Over 150 students participated in the 2009 camp! It is open to both boys and girls. Anyone who attends will be sure to have a great time. For more information go to www.harmonyexplosion.com or call Mollie Peterson at 360 568-8859. Participants will not only perform with the Harmony Explosion Chorus on the Friday July 17 concert, but they’ll share the stage with several champion barbershop quartets..
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|  | You can find great barbershop related “stuff” to buy – everything from clothing to music to CDs -- at the Harmony Marketplace: www.harmonymarketplace.com or at SAI International Sales: 877 545-5441. |
| Read about Luccock Park United Methodist Camp, site of the Big Sky Youth Harmony, at their website: http://www.luccockparkcamp.org
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To get to Luccock Park:
From I-90 (East-West Interstate across Montana) take exit 333 at the city of Livingston. Travel south on Highway 89 (towards Yellowstone Park) for 9.6 miles to the KOA Campground sign. Turn left (east) for 2.5 miles, crossing the Yellowstone River, to the "T" intersection in the village of Pine Creek. At the “T”, turn right (south) for 0.6 miles to the Luccock Park sign (it will be on your left). Turn at the sign and drive 2.5 miles up a good paved road to the sign that directs you to turn left into the camp. (Note, if you wind up at the Pine Creek National Forest campground, you forgot to make that last left turn – just go back a few hundred yards!)
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