directed by Fred Kingsbury
North Attleboro Middle School Select Choir
Trade Secret, 5th Place senior Medalist of BHS
and special guests
Ringtones! ~ 2010 International Champions of Harmony, Inc.
7:00 PM at the Peter Thatcher Elementary School
7 James Street, Attleboro, MA 02703.
Tickets are on sale – Family rates available!
To purchase tickets, contact Gayle Jordan at 774-306-6681 or mayatenor@comcast.net
Harmony Heritage is a local chapter of Harmony, Inc., an international organization dedicated to the education and promotion of four part a cappella harmony in the barbershop style.
Harmony Heritage members range in age from mid-twenties to mid-eighties. Our musical repertoire includes old time favorites, up-tunes, ballads, gospels, seasonal classics and patriotic tunes. We perform our harmonies all over Rhode Island and Southeast Massachusetts and have entertained and delighted audiences in nursing homes, assisted living centers and elementary schools (our favorite!!) We have sung the National Anthem at Pawtucket Red Sox games and at the Providence Bruins hockey games, and entertained in the upper balcony of the Providence Performing Arts Center.
We perfect our craft through weekly rehearsals, professional coaching and in annual regional and international competitions.
WOW! Time does fly. I have been so busy and didn’t know it. Just got back from AC&C in Area 2. Harmony Heritage qualified for contest in November. We will be making our plans for Windsor, Ontario. So many people asked how I was doing on my journey and stated they were checking up on my blog and hadn’t heard from me and wondered what happened. Just busy! I have finally reached New Bedford area and I will be starting a little climb upward towards Fall River. It’s so hard to believe that 120 Miles have gone by. Also, that soon I will be leaving MA and going into RI. Summer is coming and I expect to increase my miles more. Something about the weather and sunshine that makes you want to go. I have been listening to some great barbershop. I have the new CD by Foreign Exchange! Have you heard it yet? You have to get one it is fabulous! Kickstarter sure is a wonderful thing. It has helped some wonderful quartets fulfill their dreams and has given us some great music to listen too. Get their CD. Support our QUEENS! For some of us who feel we may never reach the dream of becoming a queen, these are the people who keep our dreams of Harmony alive in all of us. While I walk I imagine myself being one of the people in that quartet, singing my heart out in the songs we all love. Can’t wait to get a CD from Epic to walk to, can you imagine how awesome that one will be? I want to give a shout out to Roberta Cunha who took the challenge and gave me a donation for yarn supplies. Roberta that was so thoughtful and so many children will be warm this coming winter because of you and your heart. Thank you so much! Anyone out there who would like to donate to the cause feel free. Well I’m off and walking again. Are you all going to the Harmony Heritage show on May 11th? Come see us with Trade Secret and Ringtones! and North Attleboro Middle School Select Choir 7pm at the Peter Thatcher School 150 James Street, Attleboro, MA. Gonna be a great time! Thank you all for your love and support of my journey. I will get there because of all of you!
Well I have made it to Buzzards Bay! Anyone near by there? I have an Aunt in Onset, she will wave when I go by I’m sure.
I was given a donation by Roberta Cunha from harmony Heritage. Thank you Roberta! Your donation will go a long way. I have two scarves and three hats so far out of your donation and still going.<
>Weight is coming off very slowly. Diet is hard and I need to do more miles a day. Also need the time to do it. I will! I promise! Thank goodness better weather is on it’s way.
Hard to believe I’ve done 71 miles since January 1st. Some may say that’s not much, but for me that’s a milestone and that’s all that matters here.
My friend Marj gave me a Talk of the Town tape. Wow do they all sound so Young! Sorry girls but you really should listen to yourself now. Great Tape! I am going to try singing Love song with three of the girls from Talk of the town seeing as they are in my chorus. I’m also going to sing lead instead of tenor. I sang lead to this in Harmonettes.
So things are going great so far. Harmony Heritage show coming up on May 11th, get to have Ringtones! on our show. Having a quartetapaloosa on March 26th. We even have judges. Can’t wait to see what awards we get. Will be lots of fun for us.
So that’s all for this week. Everyone stay safe and Think Spring!!!!!
I know I have loved music since the first time I heard it. Dad played guitar and sang songs to me and my brothers, a lot of them made up. He and Mom would sing duets like Cool Water, My Buddy and Ain’t She Sweet. My grandparents would sing accompanied by Grammy Talbot who would play the keyboard. I can remember when I was probably less than 5 years old, my Grampa singing If You Knew Suzie, I guess I thought that was my theme song! Once Grammy took me to Lincoln Park and they had those machines where you could record your voice on a little white cardboard record. I sang How Much is That Doggie in the Window complete with ruff ruffs. I wasn’t too bad!
The radio was on most days and when a song was repeated during the day I thought does that group come back into the studio again to sing? As I entered grammar school, the nuns taught us to sing. They had that chalk holder that had 5 pieces of chalk to make the staff and drew on the chalk board with it. That was cool. I even learned to sing some songs in French and sang with the children’s choir. Once when a few of my friends were listening to the radio, I was fascinated with harmony. I sang a note that seemed to me to be in harmony with my friend and I was so excited to hear it. I have been pursuing harmony ever since. My brothers and I also had a little record player and most of the small 78’s were yellow vinyl. Being kids we would tear the labels off, but would know what the title of the song was by the pattern of the tear.
These are my early years of music education. What do you remember before the age of 10?
Suzanne (Suzie) Misunas
So here I am again and I’m going to put a little twist on this journey. Many of you know that I do alot of crocheting and donate everything that I make to wherever it is needed. I do hats and scarves and blankets and sweaters for adults and children of all ages. A long time ago when I sat through many karate lessons for my oldest who is a blackbelt. I can’t tell you how many hats and blankets that I made while waiting. I made many hats for the newborns at the hospital and many for young children waiting for their siblings to finish class. i would be sitting and they would ask all about what I was making. I would explain to them that it was for someone who didn’t have a hat and needed one. I would ask their favorite color and have one almost finished the next class and give it to them when it was done. They were so excited. Their were a few that I made blankets for, they didn’t have one and I feel every child needs a blanket. It’s where all their feelings are kept both good and fearful ones. So I seek out those who don’t have and make them one.
My problem is sometimes I run out of yarn and it does get expensive. I try to find the bargains which I did yesterday at AC Moore. I bought some mill ends. They are perfectly fine just rolled a little differently and no paperwork with them. Big Deal! So I’m putting the call out to anyone who would like to donate, either yarn or funds to get some.
I have been makng hats scarves and baby blankets for my youngest daughters 5th grade teachers each year since she was in the class. She is a sophmore in high school now. But they tell their class each year all about me and how I bring so many things and about how important it is to give them to others who need them. I bring them in during the day and they can meet me. They put a christmas tree in the hall outside their classroom and decorate it with all the scarves and hats and mittens they collect each year then they are given to the town nurse to give to those in need.
This past year I found a need with Barbara-Ann Mac Intosh in Jamestown,
RI for hats, scarves and mittens and now also baby items. So I did for them this past year and will again this year. I can’t believe there are not many people putting articles in the papers in need of things like this. There have to be more than me who can do this.
If you would like to donate something to this cause just send me an email or comment back and I will be in touch with you.
If you want to start your own cause that’s great too. There are so many who need food, and warm clothing to keep them alive. Let’s make sure that happens.
Now You can picture this one. I’m not quite sure I can do this while walking on my treadmill but I know I can crochet while riding my bike. It’s kind of like doing two things at once, I enjoy that challenge.
Let me hear what you think about this one!
WOW! What a great rehearsal last night with Gail Jencik coaching us. She makes you think! We added some new choreo to one of our new songs and doesn’t seem as hard as I thought it would be. The chorus seemed excited to get some movement in the song. Still have some memory glitches on words but they will come. Choreo helps to remember them. We worked hard on our contest package and will do again with her in a couple of weeks. Great rehearsal!
We have our Quartetapalooza coming up in end of march too. That should be interesting to say the least. Lots of different combinations of people and different songs for each.
Come on down and check us out any tuesday night! Lot’s of fun and friendship!
So what have all of you been doing this week? I have been trudging through snow. Starting to do alot of melting now and hopefully we won’t have to much more.
well I’m in Sandwich are now and shouting out to any of our members current or former that are in that area. Getting real close to the water of the canal now. I will be going over the bridge this week, that’s the sagamore bridge. I think it’s gonna be a little hairy. I have driven over it many times but never walked it before. Hope I don’t get blown off. Not to worry I can swim!
I have been listening to some non barbershop this week. I’ve had some Susan Boyle and Josh Groban going on. Susan you tend to want to sing to,, but josh you can just go wherever you want and lose yourself. I needed to do that this week. Been doing some good stuff on my bike when not walking too. Can do 8-10 miles in a day. That’s with doing a couple and taking a break. My tailbone doesn’t do the seat for long periods at a time, but that’s another long story.
I’ve been seeing alot of choruses having to cancel their rehearsals in the last couple of weeks. Hope you can all get back to it soon, we barbershoppers hate to lose our night of singing together. I saw where one takes a flight to rehearsal and back again only to have hers cancelled. Now that is dedication! Before we know it spring will be here and time to start planting gardens. Gotta start planning mine.
A few people have written and stated how I have inspired them to start their routines for exercise up again. Go for it! It will help us all in so many ways. Let’s all get healthier this year. Wait till you all see Cathy DeCoste, va va va voom! A whole new person! Well on the outside that is, but I suspect a little on the inside too. You go girl!
Well off to walking again, hope everyone has a great week and I will see you all on the other side of the bridge.
Well here I am again. I made it through the storm. This one was really deep. Good thing I had lots of batteries, lost power in a lot of places. I had 27 inches of snow at my place and the cape had alot too.
Well so far I have logged in 50 miles. Never thought I would see that number! I’m now in Barnstable, MA. Great little place, anyone around here?
I have been away from my blog for a couple weeks. Trying to juggle everything in life and get it all done. Busy time for my chorus life right now. Learning some new music, polishing some current music and getting ready for contest. All while being president, and making sure our nominations for the BOD are being conducted. Almost time for elections. My youngest having cheering competitions, or trying to, with the snow and all ended up with two in one weekend. They came in first which is awesome! Go Cougars!
Been listening to some different music during past weeks, one was Our Queens of 1984, Black Magic. Judi sent me two of their cassette tapes, yes I can still play them. They are so awesome. Our music and it’s sound has totally changed since 1984. Maybe it’s the singers maybe it’s the style of music. I can say though that so many of their songs I have sung myself over the years and what a great surprise to hear, Swanee River Cry. That was the first song I sang as a lead in my first quartet competition, on bolton mountain, at HTP 1984. I was pregnant with my first then, Jaime. We came in third. Hearing that brought back so many memories. Thank you so much Black Magic for all your great music. I will be listening to them over and over again.
If any of you other queens quartets have any recordings even if on Cassette tape don’t be afraid to send along to me. I’m gonna need lots of music to keep me going.
Food is playing a major role in this journey also, I’m finding it very hard to adapt to some kind of diet for me, while still cooking for a family. Of course nobody wants to eat what mom eats. Two of those people I can tell to make their own, but my husband and youngest still want it made for them. Hopefully warm weather will come real soon and my options will be so much better. I can eat chicken every day but not them. Salads are a great option for me too, but veggies are so much better in warmer weather and this year I will be doing a garden outside for us with the help of some neighbors. So there will be some great things happening there too.
I have to admit that this time of year is terrible for exercising and eating. When you are snowed in it is awful knowing you can’t get out and gets depressing. I have made another purchase for my journey and that is a combo bike/eliptical. This way I can still get some exercise in by switching it up and going to different place in house to do it. Give my legs a break from walking and sit and pedal with them.
So give me a shout out and let me know how all of you are doing. If your near barnstable shout to me also. Won’t be to long and I will be walking over my first bridge.
Talk with you all real soon!
Well I’m still going. Past wellfleet and I’m almost in south wellfleet. Was a little cold last night. Snow you know. I need to give a great thanks to Limited Edition this week for 7 Wonderful days of inspiration. It’s gonna be a long trip.
Starting to feel like maybe I can do more than one mile in a day. Got a shoutout from Donna Clarkson in NH. Sorry I couldn’t come through your state. One from Sylvie Bouchard in Canada. Hang in there Sylvie maybe I will visit you on the way back. I have Judi Johnston sending me a little Black Magic to inspire me. 1984 was a good year and where all this weight started.
Well gotta move on will check in next week. Gotta prepare for another snow storm on Friday night. Whoever thought that boots were made for walking needs to spend some time in mine. They might change their mind!
Well I’m still going! Boy it has been warm walking this weekend. Kind of feels like summer but they say maybe snow tonight. I have made it just past Truro and on my way to Wellfleet. This is gonna take awhile! I have had some inspiration from Showcase this week. Very easy to walk to. If you haven’t bought their new CD, do it now you are missing something great! Had a lot of time to think lately. You do your best thinking when you walk. Having lots of time to think of all the people I have met in my lifetime especially those in Harmony. We have alot of great people with us and have had alot of greater people pass on. Isn’t it great that we got to know them so well?
Ok off and walking again. Give me a shout out if you live in truro or wellfleet area.
Maya
