| Most importantly, we were able to have fantastic classes all day on Saturday, beginning with a warm-up by Dan Wessler, bass of After Hours. Following the warm-up were 6 class sessions throughout the day (4-5 class offerings per session), plus another master class Saturday afternoon featuring After Hours. Featured class content included singing techniques, how to learn music better, song planning, arranging, Do you want to be a judge?, comedy, chapter development and planning, and many others, with almost 30 class options were featured throughout the day. All of the instructors were extremely knowledgeable, professional, and unbelievably giving of their time. Their passion for what they do was obvious. |
| We also saw a return of the ‘Harmony Platoon’ participants, who could often be caught standing around together singing through their songs they so diligently worked on before the weekend. To see people come together and sing full songs, pick-up style (a la, tag singing) was so much fun! |
| All in all, 13 quartets and 2 choruses were able to have multiple coaching sessions on Saturday and also attend some classes of their choice. They were able to work with some of the best coaches and judges from our barbershop world. |
| Saturday night, an afterglow-style show was staged in the ballroom with snacks and a cash bar outside. About a dozen quartets sang before featuring After Hours once again. For the remainder of the night, tags broke out around the hotel and went on until the wee hours of the morning. |
| The best part of the weekend was seeing so many of our old RMD friends again and even making some new ones! It was great to see so many smiling faces!! For those that couldn’t make it, we have even greater plans in the works for the future. For those that did make it, thank you so much for helping to make it a spectacular weekend. |
| A quick reminder that our next convention is in Denver, Oct. 7-9, 2022. That is a little bit later than normal but was the only time we could move our contract from our COVID cancellation in 2021. There are some awesome plans already in the works for it, including all of our district contests and some other fun events. Stay tuned for more details about that! |
| We are already discussing ways to make next year’s Rocky Mountain Harmony College better than this year, so plan to come to RMHC 2023!! |
| More details on that to come also. |
| Until the next time, harmoniously…. |
| Your RMHC team and RMD BoD |
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