With temperatures starting to cool down, and summer vacations almost finished we turn our focus to recruiting new members.  Our booth at the Penrod Art Fair will try to attract women who are missing a musical outlet in their lives.  Our members will also attend our Region 4 Fall Fling to visit with friends in our Sweet Adeline region and sharpen some of our vocal skills.  Since we placed 5th at our regional contest we will also performan in the evening show at the end of the event.

When we come home we will be putting our new skills to good use while working on new music for our upcoming January show.  In between rehearsal time we will welcome prospecitve new members at our annual Harmony Happening on Saturday, September 22nd.  Our Directory and Section Leaders will spend time with our guests telling them our our chorus and the Sweet Adelines International organization.  They will teach them about how sinigng in the barbershop style may be a little different from other music organizations they have experienced.  Not only do our guests receive a free music lesson, we also treat them to lunch. 

For those who cannot attend this event, we also offer a guest night at our regular rehearsal on September 25th. Both sessions will be at our regular rehearsal location at Trinity Lutheran Church in Indianapolis. 
 

The annual trek to regional competition was fruitful in so many ways.  White River Sound is proud to be fifth overall in this region of fantastic choruses.  What a pleasure to share the connections, the singing, as well as the fun and games of our hospitality suite with wonderful quartets and chorus friends.  Our new members felt the love and friendship that this new world brings to their lives.  Those of us immersed deeply in the hobby enjoyed the comraderie and singing that we have come to love.  

We use the competition stage as our annual wrap-up and enjoyed reviewing our performance and comments over pizza, and stories of the weekend.  Our rehearsal hall will be dark this week, April 24th.   (May 1st will be open rehearsal) as we move on toward a brand new year.  

With the coming of the new fiscal year our board of directors will be dutifully installed and all of our contributing members honored at our annual banquet.  We will be absent from rehearsal hall on May 8th as we celebrate that new beginning.

If you are that someone who has been waiting to join this fabulous group of women or know someone who could use a strong dose of friendship and a welcoming dose of song in their life, contact us for a visit.  It's the perfect time to start.  Spring has sprung.  Renewed energy and new music begins.  

The only constant in life is change?  Well we are consistently & constantly changing.  White RIver Sound Chorus was faced again with a change right at the time we prepare for the competition stage.  A "deja vu" of three years ago as our host rehearsal location pulled the carpet from under our risers and said, "we've made some big changes here so we need your space."  Being the harmonizers that we are, we wished our landlords well and set off in eager search of a new rehearsal location....again.  We had a couple of wonderful prospects that gave us nothing but positive thoughts about their businesses.  Shout outs to Ji-Eun Music Academy and BongoBoy Music Company.  If you need music lessons, want your child to participate in youth theater, need a team builder activity, or a need to release your angst by hitting something, find the drum circle.  Both of these business owners were so supportive of our need and the artform we repersent.  They were eager to help.  As it turns out the best solution when we only have three weeks of rehearsal left to prepare for contest, is to make the swiftest move possible.  So the move of the risers was planned quickly.  And of course, the weather planned to dump snow that morning, thus we changed the plan.  Consistency in change mastered.  

Lessons learned as we sing barbershop harmony together conquered this ill timed event.  Change is critical.  
Changing for the positive should be consistent.  And so together, WRS worked the plan and found our way to our new rehearsal sight.  Find us at Trinity Lutheran Church, 8540 E. 16th Street, Indianapolis when you are ready to visit.  But more importantly, find this group of women who tackle change together.  Whether it's taking a truck full of risers to a new rehearsal location or our competition package to the stage at Covington.  We plan to change
the way we performed in the past for the constant of even better.  

The "in full gear" swing toward Competition stage is underway at WRS.  Diligent care of our top ten pieces of the puzzle are being managed one piece at a time.  Just in the way a jigsaw puzzle goes together, each singer is  grabbing a piece and finding the right fit.  Like a family or unit of friends sitting around the table, working together toward a finished picture, so is WRS putting together a picture of a solid competition performance.  The goal of a finished puzzle of course is to find no missing pieces. That single color of purple that Tori Postma told us about as she coached us one stellar Saturday rehearsal, will find it's way into the completed puzzle.  But it must first be picked up and fitted to its place.  And so our puzzle pieces come out at each rehearsal.  What do I need to make fit into the right place this week?  Do I need to hold onto this piece until another piece comes together first?  If I work on this skill first will it help someone else's puzzle piece find its home?  

Why do we enjoy our crazy hobby of barbershop so much? Because we solve the puzzle together, enjoying the comraderie, enjoying the learning, enjoying the process, enjoying the picture of music in our lives.

    Welcome to our new website.  Some area remain under construction but will be fully functional soon.  Just
like a new song, there is plenty of emotional content, practical considerations and effort to achieve a product
that delivers a strong performance.  Isn't it wonderful how so much of our daily life lessons can be achieved by practicing what we learn as singers.  Keep at it.  Fix the mistakes but don't fixate.  Be proud of how much you have already accomplished.  And, the most important one, when it just isn't making it, try a different key.  
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