Sweet Adelines International 75th Jubilee Commemorative Album

Highlights

• We launched a director mentor program in 2003, pairing novice directors with experienced master directors. • Sweet Adelines advertised a New Music Subscription Club in 2004, which offered 30 of the newest music titles at one low price delivered “right to your doorstep” automatically every eight weeks. Club price for Sweet Adeline members was $25 USD, including free shipping and handling.

Thirty-six directors attended the first resoundingly successful Novice Directors seminar in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA in January of 2004.

The first Young Women In Harmony festival took place at the Phoenix (Arizona, USA) convention in 2003 with 170 participants. Led by Lorraine Barrows, Beth Bruce, and members of the Sweet Adelines International Faculty, they had an “intense and exciting introduction to barbershop harmony,” rehearsing three YWIH songs along with choreography in one day. They were the opening act at Showcase 2003 in America West Arena that night. One participant’s comment: “I just decided to change my major from business to music — I love this!”

YWIH clinics and festivals were in full swing in the early 2000s. TuneTown Show Chorus hosted the first Middle Tennessee Festival of Harmony with the Music City Men’s Chorus in 2003 for several hundred students, directed by Debbie Cleveland (pictured). Also in 2003, more than 500 young men and women converged at Illinois State University for a full day of a cappella harmony clinics. Sweet Adelines International Clinician Scotty Frakes conducted the 335-voice young women’s chorus, assisted by co-sponsors Heart of Illinois Chorus (East Peoria, Illinois, USA).

2000 Region #3 presents the first Chicagoland Sing for the Cure.

2000 Members from Region #9 journey to China to perform and educate singers on the barbershop art form.

2000 San Diego Chorus donates to Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

2000 Voices Only Quartet sings a tag with U.S. television host Rosie O'Donnell after her show.

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