The Sound of
Illinois Barbershop Chorus at the new Lincoln Center April 25
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[April 20, 2010]
Tickets are on sale now for the
April 25 performance by the reigning state championship barbershop
chorus, The Sound of Illinois Barbershop Chorus, at the new Lincoln
Center on the campus of Lincoln College. The Sunday evening concert
is a part of Lynx Fest Community Day and is one of the first events
to take place in the new athletic and convocation facility.
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The 54,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art venue is also the future
home of the Lincoln Heritage Museum and its multimillion-dollar
collections.The concert is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. with a
short opening act by juggler Rick Colen, a 1983 graduate of Lincoln
College.
The SOI Barbershop Chorus is an a cappella chorus of almost 100
men. They are dedicated to using the power of music to entertain and
touch the hearts of audiences. Barbershop music is unaccompanied,
close-harmony singing. A melting pot of musical styles, it draws
elements from African-American melody, gospel, European hymn-singing
culture and the American tradition of recreational music. You and
your family will delight in the amazing four-part harmonies of the
group as they take the audience on a musical journey through time
and space across this great nation.
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Legend has it that barbershop music derived from early rural
barbershops, where men gathered on Saturday nights for haircuts and
conversation while their wives shopped for the family. To help pass
the time, the barber is reputed to have encouraged improvisational
harmonizing as he sang out a melody while he was cutting hair.
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More information on the group, including high-resolution photos,
is available at
www.soundofillinois.com/newsite/index.html.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for kids ages 3-12, and are
available at the four Lincoln-area locations of State Bank of
Lincoln -- Broadway, Sangamon, West and Walmart -- or through
Lincoln College by contacting Mary Jo Werth toll-free at
877-522-5867 or by e-mail to
mjwerth@lincolncollege.edu.
More details on the concert and all events during Lynx Fest
Community Day are available at
http://www.lincolncollege.edu/alumni/
BarbershopConcert.pdf.
[Text from file received from
Lincoln College]
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