Good Morning BHA

Ash sits down with AGBJ Music Judge, BHA Education Faculty Member, BHA Quartet Bronze Medalist, 3 Time BHA Youth Quartet Champion, BHA Collegiate Quartet International Representative, Adelaide Vocal Union Director and fellow burger enthusiast, Kieran O'Dea!

Richard and Ash discuss the upcoming BHA Regionals before getting into what it's like to be an MD of a chorus.

We get to chat to BHA and BHS International Champ John Newell

Ash was lucky enough to get Dan Millgate, Ian Mulholland and Mike Donnelly, the current and two previous BHA Presidents respectively, around the same table to hear some stories and more!

Richard talks 'shop with 2 time BHA Quartet Champion Blindside's Michael Webber

We get to hear about some of the history of BHA from legend Ian Mulholland... We could list all his accomplishments here but there is only so much space on the internet...

What better use of the bus trip from Harmony Academy than to record a podcast wrapping up an historic convention!

We talk to BHA legend Derek Cosburn, who, among other things, was the Lead of the 1991 BHA Quartet Gold Medalist Quartet, The Sentimentals, our first champs!

Richard Reeve flying solo for a one on one with International Champion Chorus Director, BHS Singing Judge and incredibly nice guy, Jordan Travis from Toronno!

We go through the results from Sweet Adelines Region 34 contest, touch on the Barbershop Harmony Society's latest Everyone In Harmony announcement and preview the BHS International Contest minutes before it starts! (It's well and truly over now of course, because I'm slow at uploading our recordings...)

Episode 16 - Tasmanian Regional Ash is on his own for this one... is that "woohoo" I hear you say? C'mon now, Reeve isn't all that bad... We have chats with our judges, Alex Morris and Sarah Bradley, BHA VP Membership Paul Adams, and the Forefathers quartet!

Episode 15 We happened to be at the same BHA Regional (Ash judging, Richard competing and mastering ceremonies) so why not get the recorder out and chat to some fine folk! We chat to BHA Education Faculty members Jen Howson and Rob Sequeira about nothing close to education, Upgrade's new baritone Alex Jaime about being Upgrade's new baritone, incredibly keen barbershopper Damian Jones about being...

We talk musical theatre and the benefits it can have on your barbershop performance and vice versa, we also discuss some recent happenings around a chorus that was awarded a zero in contest and we round out with some local quartet updates.

We chat to David Reid from Sound Connection about what they might be up to this year and beyond.

Part 4, and the final part, of our Harbour Harmony College Series! We've got the legendary Jim Henry, HC Dean and Assistant Dean Andrew Howson and Dan Beckitt, BHA President Ian Mulholland and we round it all out with some very wise words from MUS judge and big time arranger Kevin Keller.

Episode 11 - The Guyton Files 2 Time BHS International Quartet Gold Medalist, Brandon Guyton, gives us all the stories!

We continue our Harmony College Interviews starting with a civilian (non barbershopper) Amanda who came to HC to learn! We also chat to 2 time Internationial Quartet Champ, Fred Farrell before getting in depth with 2013 BHA Quartet 3rd Place Bronze Medalist, Matthew Lykos.

The first installment of our Harmony College Interview Series. This episode we talk to 7 time SAI Region 34 Quartet Champ Bec Hewitt, 2 time BHS International Quartet Champ Mike Slamka, 2017 BHA Quartet 4th Place Bronze Medalist Michael Hicks and 2013 BHA Quartet 3rd Place Bronze Medalist and 2017 BHA Silver Medal Chorus Director Kieran O'Dea.

Hitting record while driving across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on our way to 3 days of Harmony Prison, we recap Harbour Harmony, the 2017 Pan Pacific Convention

This episode we go through some of our highlights from BHS International 2017 through the sparkly lens of the Performance category MoH Too Darn Hot youtu.be/2Jtxiq4gL_M TNL Smile Medley youtu.be/E4dYpUmPk7E Parkside Harmony Devil And The Deep Blue Sea youtu.be/7U9xsLFKUYM Signature Dance With My Father youtu.be/B6FwopHVll8 NF4 Cottage For Sale youtu.be/sQBHFsmRBl4 Nf4 Supercal... youtu.be/7BH2CqE5...

Episode 6 We discuss ideas around the best and not so best ways to expose people to Barbershop. High Altitude Harmony's YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UChgL4JOprGWAX1xS6Bwq0GA Baby On Board (The Simpsons) https://youtu.be/A_21R5wVSpc Max Q - Here's To The Losers https://youtu.be/WkWLEODo2e0 The Newfangled Four - Bananaphone https://youtu.be/ESWi63VIAjc

This episode is all about wandering around the international convention with a mic and seeing what we got. Turns out we got a couple of interviews, a bunch of singing from Sing With The Champs (ok, mostly Vocal Spectrum) and some of the thoughts about what was happening as the happenings were happening. We hope this gives you some sense of the madness that is a BHS International.

We chat more about quartetting while trying to not get too excited about heading to International in Vegas!!

In Part 1 we get stuck into quartet life, in particular, discussion around forming a quartet, goals, managing expectations, preparation... and we answer some our listeners questions!

Our 2nd episode! We recap the SAI Region 34 competition and get deeper into some Performance category discussion.