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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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Boys: the Barbershop Harmony Society has chapters in Billings, Bozeman, Helena, Missoula, Havre, Great Falls, and Kalispell. Call the Society at 1 800 876-SING. On the Society website www.barbershop.org you can locate chapters and quartets, download over 50 “Free ‘n Easy” songs arranged in the barbershop style, and learn more about this wonderful hobby. The Evergreen District of the Society includes most of Montana, Idaho, and Oregon, and all of Washington, Alaska, British Columbia, and Alberta. The Evergreen website www.evg.org is loaded with information about barbershop singing in the Northwest. The Bud Leabo Memorial Fund was developed to honor one of the great early leaders of the Evergreen District. The fund provides sholarship and financial support for a variety of music education schools, judges training, director development schools, and youth music camps, including our very own Rendezvous.
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|  | 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 sixth annual Harmony Explosion Northwest 2007 will be held July 18 to 21 in Tacoma, Washington, at Pacific Lutheran University. This outstanding vocal music camp was the inspiration for the Big Sky Youth Harmony Rendezvous. Over 200 students participated in the 2006 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 Saturday July 21 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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|  | To find out more about the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, check out www.theemerson.org. Join us there -- 111 South Grand Avenue, Bozeman, Montana -- for our fifth annual Big Sky Youth Harmony Rendezvous concert, Sunday June 22, 2008 at 3:30 pm. |
| About 150 Montana students and vocal music teachers from 9 high schools, had a great time singing on Thursday, February 1, 2007. This was the date of the second (annual? we hope so!) Montana high school choir barbershop festival held in Great Falls, Montana. They spent an entire day together sharing the joys of barbershop harmony, then performing in concert in the evening. The program was organized by music teachers Pete Shea of Browning High School, Lisa Voss of Great Falls Central Catholic High School, and Bev Kolar of Stanford High School. Contact Lisa to learn how your school choir can participate in 2008. This website will provide more details as they become available. | |
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