The Hawkseye 

January 2006 - page 7

 

Barbershop In The Spotlight

Members of the Old Capitol Chorus (Iowa City), Harmony Hawks (Cedar Rapids), and the Chordbusters (Davenport) share the spotlight at center court while they sing the "Star Spangled Banner' before a University of Iowa mens basketball game. Photo courtesy of Dave Haase.


Harmony Hawks Go
Christmas Caroling
Photos by Dave Haase

Members of the Harmony Hawks sing for the nurses in the maternity ward at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids. 
The Harmony Hawks stand in the hallway and serenade some of the patients at St. Luke's Hospital.

Barbershop MP3's Available
On The Internet
From a post on the Harmonet

In response to a thread circulating here on the Harmonet last week,  we are pleased to be able now to silence the rumor mill and announce the impending release of thousands of barbershop songs for digital download. The Society has recently partnered with Naked Voice Records, LLC (NVR), in a collaboration that will have a profound effect on the availability of barbershop audio worldwide. NVR is a record label owned by barbershoppers (AIC members, in fact!) and dedicated exclusively to the digital distribution of a cappella music.

Within a matter of weeks, Phase I of the project will make available worldwide virtually every quartet and chorus contest performance recorded at International since 1999 (Anaheim). This body of music will join the digital catalog of NVR already available through a variety of the most popular legal music download services such as iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, MusicMatch, eMusic, LiquidAudio. These services offer legal digital downloads and/or streaming delivery of CD quality audio on a piecemeal basis. Both Apple and Windows based computers are supported both with and without the popular portable 

MP3's continued on page 8

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