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Babershoppers and Noon Optimists present Barbershop Dinner Concert

11/13/2012

 
Written by Roger LaPoint
The Winnebagoland Barbershop Chorus and the Oshkosh Noon Optimist Club present their first Barbershop Dinner Concert on Thursday, Dec. 6, at La Sure's Hall, 3125 S. Washburn St., Oshkosh.

The Oshkosh Noon Optimists Club has been in existence since 1948 and had its first meetings at the Athearn Hotel. It meets now from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays at Becket's Restaurant. Please feel free to stop in at one of these meetings to see what you can do to help their youth goals.

The club’s goals have always been to help the youth of the community directly or indirectly by the means of fundraisers or donations. All their fundraising stays in Oshkosh. In past years they have sponsored many projects: Christmas tree sales, home shows, sport shows, concerts, pancake breakfasts and circus acts. Contributions have been made to Big Brothers/ Big Sisters, DARE, the Boys & Girls Club, Y.M.C.A. (Special Youth Programs), just to name a few.

The Winnebagoland Barbershop Chorus prides itself in its many service activities and giving back to the community as well. On an annual basis, they award college scholarships for students majoring in music education, provide funding for high school students attending Young Men In Harmony Camps, and pay for hearing aids and assistive listening devices for children in need who have hearing impairments.

Each May the barbershoppers host a Youth in Harmony Festival at Webster Stanley Middle School that attracts more than 30 young men who love to sing, in hopes they will join a barbershop group either now or in their future.

The barbershoppers also raised more than $8,000 to support the Oshkosh Alliance Youth Barbershop Chorus, which competed in the first International Youth in Harmony Festival/Contest in San Antonio, Texas a few years ago. The unique chorus, created to participate in the festival, included 39 young men from ages 13 to 20. The group consisted of students and alumni from Oshkosh West High School and a few students from other area schools and were directed by students as well. The chorus included some youth with special needs who helped bring out the best in everyone.

The inaugural Barbershop Dinner Concert consists of a fantastic sit-down dinner, with piano music performed by Dennis Sphatt followed by the 2012 Packerland Division Chorus Champions directed by Todd Oxley; and including four quartets: 2012 Packerland Division Quartet Champions "The Cheery-O’s," the always humorous "4 Bits of Fun," "Westhaven," with its '60s sound and TV singing stars "One Button Short."

Tickets for dinner and show are $35 each. The cash bar starts at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 and the show at 7:30. A limited number of tickets are available, so contact Don at (920) 231-6856, Jackie at (920) 426-5928 or Pat at (920) 722-7312.

Oshkosh Chorus takes Sixth in 2012 District Competition

11/12/2012

 
Written by Roger LaPoint
For the fourth consecutive year, the Winnebagoland Barbershop Chorus competed in the Land O’Lakes (LOL) District competition, which was held this year in Rochester, Minnesota on October 27. The Oshkosh chorus was one of 17 competing choruses that each earned the right to compete at the district level by achieving qualifying scores in their respective division contests.
Chorus at the 2012 LOL District competition
Each chorus performed two songs in the competition, and were judged on music, presentation, and singing. The Oshkosh chapter performed “The Moment I Saw Your Eyes” and “Among my Souvenirs” and took a very respectable sixth place in the 2012 competition, graduating by one slot from seventh place, which they achieved in 2011.

The Land O’Lakes District includes choruses and quartets from Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and three provinces of Canada.

Local quartet, “The Cheery-O’s,” consisting of Todd Oxley and his three sons Nathan, Joshua, and Jacob, finished sixth among 21 entrants, having qualified for LOL District competition by winning the quartet championship at the Packerland Division contest. “One Button Short,” (with members from Oshkosh and Appleton) also competed in the LOL District quartet competition after taking third place at the division level.

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