Southeastern Harmony District Spring Convention 2025

2025 International Quartet Preliminary and Southeastern Harmony District Chorus Championship Contests - March 21-23

Message from our President
Digital Program
General Information Registration/Tickets
LIVESTREAM INFO
Venue
Hotel Information
Draw - Quartets and Choruses
Mic Tester Chorus
Program/Ads
Judging Panel
Photo Order Form

We are excited to host our GREAT Southeastern Harmony District gathering! Sounds like we have LOTS of quartets and choruses signed up, attendance looks good, and we’ll have several things happening over the weekend to float our collective barbershop boat. Here's some additional activities from Clay Hine:

Opening Night Party...at the Holiday Inn (HQ) hotel on March 20 at 7PM will feature at least 2 quartets: Gambit and Front Page News! This will be an “all-SHD Chapter Meeting” in conjunction with the Knoxville chapter and ANY folks who want to come be a part of the fun. We’ll sing a couple of songs (including songs that the all-voices mic-tester chorus will use on Saturday morning), hear some quartets, sing some tags, and wrap by 9 PM for a fun afterglow at the hotel. For those whose attendance at this would involve a hotel stay, the convention rates at the Holiday Inn would apply for this night as well. If you think you’ll attend and take part in the festivities, please fill out this form to let me know (just so we can get a rough count). And…if you have a quartet who is interested in singing a song or 2 at this event, let Clay know (clayhine@gmail.com).

All-Voice Mic Tester Chorus…will meet at 9 AM on Saturday morning on the stage at the contest venue to rehearse a bit before kicking off the contest at 10 AM. We will sing I Love You Truly and either What a Wonderful World or Heart of My Heart (depending on who knows what). Links to music and/or tracks for these are below:
- I Love You Truly as sung by Brouhaha (Me, Tim Reynolds, David Calland, Kirk Young)…music and tracks are free and here
- What a Wonderful World as sung by OC Times
- Heart of My Heart as sung by most barbershoppers…including the Westminster Chorus!

ALL VOICES ARE WELCOME. If you’re at all interested in joining us, check out the music you might not know and come on by. Even if you can’t be there right at 9AM (maybe your chorus is also singing), and even if you’re not sure you know the tunes…come on by. Atlanta Vocal Project members will be participating, and in the spirit of the “Harmony” in “SHD”, we’d love to see LOTS of others come by to hang out and sing a bit (reminder - we’ll also sing thru these tunes at the Opening Night Party).

SHD Tag Contest
We already have a few submissions for original SHD tags ahead of the March 16 deadline! If you have a great tag idea smoldering, all you need to do is send to me: 1) music for the tag and 2) audio file of a group singing the tag (chorus, quartet, you doing your own 4 part recording, etc - and don’t worry about the quality - I just wanna know how it goes!). Send your tag and audio file to clayhine@gmail.com . The rules are: not too long (12 chords or less), needs to feature barbershop, and it needs to be original (ie, no copyrighted material)…and ideally, it is accessible to all SHD singers (ie, all 4 parts shouldn’t be singing contrabass or soprano 1!).And yeah - we have a couple of other fun activities planned, including an informal superlative contest that YOU can help judge and a “how much barbershop fun can you have in 1 weekend bingo card”. If it sounds like we’re packing a ton of fun into 1 weekend…then you’re onboard with the plan!

Hope to see you there!

Digital Program

Registration & Instructions for Competitors

Every competitor should have their quartet admin or chorus manager complete the contest entry at members.barbershop.org. Each competitor must be a member of the Barbershop Harmony Society and current on their dues. Each quartet must be registered with BHS (standard package minimum) and current on their dues at the time of the contest. Each chorus must be current for all members crossing the stage. Contest entry for quartets and choruses is open until March 2nd.

Every competitor should purchase a registration for the convention, $75 for competitor and $65 for guests (plus fees) Early Bird until midnight March 7th, Full price begins the next day, March 8th, at $85 for competitors and $75 for guests (plus fees.). Registration can be purchased at this link: BUY YOUR CONTESTANT REGISTRATION HERE. A paper registration form can be DOWNLOADED here.

Every contestant should make arrangements for their hotel at our Southeastern Harmony District hotel (below).

LIVESTREAM

VENUE

Special reminder, we are at a school, no alcohol or tobacco items allowed anywhere on school property.

Knoxville Catholic High School
9245 Fox Lonas Rd NW, Knoxville TN 37923

HOTEL INFORMATION

Contestants and guests are highly encouraged to book with the hotel below, pricing beginning at $122 per night. Please use the link provided.

Headquarter Hotel
Holiday Inn: Knoxville West - Cedar Bluff Rd
9134 Executive Park Drive
Knoxville, TN 37923
Rate: Beginning at $122
CLICK THE LINK TO BOOK THE SHD RATE
YOU WILL HAVE TO MANUALLY ADD THE DATES March 21-23
SHD Holiday Inn: West Knoxville - BOOK NOW

Quartet & Chorus Draw

Click here for the Quartet and Chorus Matrices.

Mic Tester Chorus

The All Voices (mic tester) Chorus will meet at 9:00 am for rehearsal on Saturday.

Directed by Clay Hine

Program
All times posted are Eastern. Contest events may run early or long for the end time, and will affect the start time of the events that follow it. Please listen for announcements from the Presenter at each contest for any adjustment to times.

SCHEDULE

ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN. LOCATIONS AND TIMES ARE UNOFFICIAL UNTIL MARCH 9th. TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

Friday
- 2:00-5:30 pm Registration - Holiday Inn
- 3:30-5:00 pm Quartet walk-ons - Knoxville Catholic High School
- 5:30 - 7:00 pm Registration - Knoxville Catholic High School
- 6:00 pm Door Open - Knoxville Catholic High School
- 6:30 pm Quartet Semi Finals - Knoxville Catholic High School
- 10:00 pm (approx.) Quartet Feedback Session - Holiday Inn
Saturday
- 8:00-10:00 am Registration - Knoxville Catholic High School
- 9:00 - 9:35 am All Voices Barbershop Chorus Rehearsal - Knoxville Catholic High School
- 9:30 Doors open - Knoxville Catholic High School
- 10:00 am Chorus Contest - Knoxville Catholic High School
- 1:00 pm (approx.) Chorus Feedback Session - Knoxville Catholic High School
- 3:30 pm Quartet Finals - Knoxville Catholic High School
- 5:00 pm (approx.) Quartet/Chorus Showcase - Knoxville Catholic High School
- 7:00 pm (approx.) District Chordatorium and Afterglow - Holiday Inn
- 7:00 pm (approx.) Quartet Final Feedback Session - Holiday Inn
Sunday
- 9:00 am Gospel Hour Service with Tony Ivey - Holiday Inn
  - 9:00 Fellowship
  - 9:15 Music lead by Jared Hardmen of RSVP
  - 9:45 Messaby by Bro. Tony Ivey
  - 10:00 Benediction
  - EVERYONE IS INVITED!

ADS for Digital Program and Livestream

Ads are available for our Digital Program or Livestream for $25 each, both for $50. Contact Michael Giddens and David Murphree at bmal@southeasternharmony.org to place an ad. Deadline is Friday March 14th.

JUDGES

ADM PC - Brett Foster (RMD)
ADM - Steve Tremper (NSC)
MUS - Steve Armstrong (ONT), Cay Outerbridge (NED)
PER - Paul Ellinger (PIO), John Mallett (ONT)
SNG - Rik Johnson (CSD), Andrew Lujan (NED)

CANDIDATES
ADM - Tyler Carpenter (MAD), Chris Rodgers (SUN)
PER - Christopher Loftin (SHD)

Photos

PLEASE NOTE: New photographer. If paying by check, please se the form for the new payee.
Posed photos of your quartet or chorus are available by filling out the form and bringing it to convention.