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What a way to celebrate this achievement, by Zoom!

Four members received their long service Membership Badges of the national BABS (British Association of Barbershop Singers) awards and proudly wore them at the weekly Zoom rehearsal evenings.

20yr- Chairman Stu Newberry (Lead), Dave Madge (Bass & Tenor);

25yr- Tim Wyatt (Baritone), Steve Hancock (Baritone).

The Zoom sessions have been running since lockdown started in March 2020. They have been orchestrated and managed by the inimitable Ian Wooler (fellow baritone) and chairman Stu Newberry. The sessions have been great for keeping everyone in touch, and sharing stories, and above all maintaining song learning and fine tuning of songs in the repertoire. We have also incorporated fun times with quizzes and ‘Would I Lie To You’ sessions hosted by Peter Dale and warmup sessions each week by Deputy MD Gary Rowe. Many songs in our repertoire have been worked on and always start with MD Roy Hann explaining the key points in each song such as the story, performance, chord structure and above all selling the song.

Some brilliant Zoom sessions have been shared with other choruses such as Ocean City Sound here in Plymouth and the Westchester Chordsmen (New York) whom we visited on tour in May 2018 and whom we hope to host a visit from them in the not too distant future.

Meantime’s we carry on with our Zoom sessions and can’t wait for the return to real-time performances once it is deemed safe to do so.