Since the onset of COVID-19 in our region, we have canceled our weekly rehearsals. Our national organization, Sweet Adelines International, canceled contest season 2020. This means that our Regional competition in Springfield was canceled, as is our...
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Home is where the heart is, and MVA is looking for a new place to call our home after the 2020 contest season. With help from our community members, barbershop family and friends we are sure to find the perfect place that our members fall in love with again. Contact us at...
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Fall Regional Weekend can be a fun time to reconnect after summer! Catch up with old friends, sing around, and generally enjoy our shared hobby. This year, we were fortunate to have a new perspective from Master Director Kim Wonders. Along with her sense of humor and honesty, she shared some...
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This spring Patti Newman, co-coordinator of MVA’s Membership Program, envisioned an outreach program for young women singers with the intent to share our love of barbershop and a cappella music, while fostering ongoing music education during the summer. The program attracted about 12 young women...
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This year Merrimack Valley A Cappella’s contest package was Somewhere Over the Rainbow (ballad) and Smile (uptune); two arrangements about encouragement and hope. There were hundreds of instances when we talked about manifesting dreams, and encouraging loved ones with our...
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Hey You GUUUUUUUUUYS!
I have a confession: as a child, I watched a lot of TV. I mean, A LOT. God bless the 1970’s – a time when we had a color TV in the family room, and “screen time” was still decades away from entering our vernacular. My sister and I would argue over a beanbag chair...
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I have enjoyed singing with MVC for 4 years now and am still engaged with this fabulous group of gals! There have been numerous opportunities to get acquainted with new friends and communities outside my own. Recently we reached out to the community of Lowell at the...
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Looking back at my choice, I've asked myself, "Why didn’t I look for more mixed groups?
Why did I insist on only looking at women’s groups? What was so alluring about MVC?"
Having grown up...
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Growing up, music was always around in my house. My parents had their record player and we would throw on a record on Saturdays- Bernstein’s Mass, Yes, or something else. It depended on whose turn it was to choose. Other days, we would rifle through the CD collection and blast stuff- Queen,...
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