Sweet Adelines International 75th Jubilee Commemorative Album

Queens of Harmony: A Family Affair! There have been three mother/daughter sets singing in the same International Champion Quartets: Big Four (1953); Sweet and Lows (1958), and the Four Bettys (2008). And three mothers and daughters won in individual quartets: Kendra LaPointe won with Spotlight in 2006. Her mom, Vickie Gibson, won with Front Office Four in 1975. Michelle Little won with Martini in 2012, her mother, Portia Little, having won with Bron’s Tones 1971. Mary Duncan won with ClassRing in 2019, and Michelle Hunget won with Zing! in 2010.

Moms and Daughters 2019 Back row: Kendra LaPointe,

Vickie Gibson, Michelle Little, Portia Little. Front row: Mary Duncan, Michelle Hunget

SPOTLIGHT: CORONET CLUB

In the barbershop world, Renee Craig has done just about everything musical: arranging, director of Ramapo Valley (1979, 1986, and 1990 International Champion Chorus), international faculty member, and contest judge. In the realm of quartetting, not only was she the lead of the Cracker Jills (1957 Queens of Harmony) but she was also one of the founders of the Coronet Club. In the first Coronet Club show in 1966, the chorus of champions sang Renee’s Champion Strut and Coronet Waltz.

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