MVA was blown away this past weekend by the talents of our retreat coach, Kim Wonders. Kim is the master director of the award-winning Metro Nashville Chorus. With her fortes in vocal skills, sound, expression, characterization, and putting the visual with the vocal, she took us to a higher...
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Springtime brings Sweet Adelines' regional competition season to MVA each year. COVID19 shut down our opportunity to compete in 2020 and 2021. But we're back in 2022 preparing for another fun contest season. This year we'll submit our Open Division package via video.
MVA loved sharing...
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Merrimack Valley A Cappella Chorus is excited to present our new co-directors, Carol Smolenski and Sally Jeffery. These ladies have been members of MVA and SAI for many years. As certified directors, Carol and Sally possess an abundance of musical education and experience through their previous...
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Merrimack Valley A Cappella enters 2022 with a bang! We are back for live rehearsals in our Andover home, Temple Emanuel, 7 Haggetts Pond Road. With a hybrid of in-person (vaccinated, masked and socially distanced) and virtual (via Zoom) rehearsals, we meet on Thursday nights from 7:15 to 9:30...
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Thank you for supporting our January Calendar Raffle!
One lucky winner was drawn every day in January for a cash prize!
And the winners are:
Jan. 1: #113
Jan. 2: #142
Jan. 3: #7
Jan. 4: #80
Jan. 5: #36
Jan. 6: #79
Jan. 7: #169...
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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