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CALIFORNIA TOUR 2009From the 19th of January – 1st of February, Ringmasters were on tour in California and Arizona. We landed in San Diego where we had eight high school appearances, one workshop and a few shows, all in all more than twelve “showtimes” in a mere week. Moving on we drove to the Westminster rehearsal in Los Angeles on Sunday and watched as the magic took place, ending the night very late outside of Friday’s with the last part of the crew. The day after that we flew in a tiny little airplane over to Prescott, Arizona. After a nice dinner with our hosts we went to bed pretty early, for the coming day was going to be long. On the day after, this is Tuesday; we did four high schools and one grand show the same night. To our great joy we managed to inspire people from all of the high schools to come to that show the same night, it was packed! The singing continued in the oldest bar downtown Prescott until the wee hours. Wednesday morning we flew back, now having Pasadena and the midwinter convention ahead of us. After some recovering time at the pool (this is very rare and luxurious to Swedish people being in late January) we drove to watch the Masters of Harmony rehearse in LA. After seeing the amazing and intense practice we finished at their hang out before going back to Pasadena. So on Thursday the midwinter convention finally started. We had a small set in the Perfect Gentlemen’s show that night, getting ready for the big shows that weekend. On Friday we saw the American harmony movie in a theatre in Pasadena. Then at night we had a small set on the show, a bit too short some people thought. On Saturday we competed in the youth chorus contest together with the San Diego youth chorus, and in the evening we did a longer set in the show. Featuring the audience in All You Need Is Love (Lennon/McCartney) we finished our official show time for the tour, though we unofficially continued all night, almost until the cab came to pick us up to drive us to the airport. We want to thank everybody from San Diego to Los Angeles to Inland Empire to Arizona to Pasadena for this fantastic trip! The world of barbershop is a wonderful place to be in!!!
RINGMASTERS EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS
Ringmasters became European Champions on the 5th of March 2009 in the male quartet contest during the Eurpean Barbershop Convention.
VOCAL VINTAGE & FOLKTON WITH RINGMASTERS AND KRAJA,
CONCERT ON THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY AT NYBROKAJEN 11
Ringmasters and the vocal group Kraja had a successful concert at Nybrokajen 11 with an overexcited audience!
RINGMASTERS WORLD CHAMPIONS IN COLLEGIATE BARBERSHOP
Ringmasters captured the gold medal in the 2008 Bank of America Collegiate Barbershop contest the 5th of July. Ringmasters won by a large margin and their score was the second best ever in the collegiate world championships. With this success the quartet is establish as the best young quartet in the world!
Pressrelease from the Harmony society; click here
THE SNOBS OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP IN BARBERSHOP SINGING
Has just been held and it has been absolutely fantastic! We, Ringmasters, succeeded to win gold in the Quartet competition and also gold with our chapter Zero8, a full suite!
With an average score of 78,2 we are now qualified for World Championship this year held in Nashville, Tennessee between 30th of June and 6th of July.
Ringmasters will do their first appearance on the International Championship stage but they will also compete in the Collegiate Quartet Contest. Last year in Denver Ringmasters achieved a rewarding 10th position at their first appearance ever in the contest. This year it will be incredible fun and exciting and with last years experience we are extremely "on our toes"!
Next possibility to see us live will be at the ladies Sweet Adeline convention held in Västerås between May 2 and 4th. For more information please see www.nordiclightregion.com
CONSERT APRIL 17th
Come and see us perform together with two of the best quartets in the world, Growing Girls and OC Times! Host for the concert is the choir Zero8, which will do the debut. Master of Ceremonies Anders Jalkéus.
Where: Bromma High school assembly hall. Time: 19.30
SNOBS OPEN
The weekend 18-20th April the Nordic Championships in barbershop will be held in Upplands Väsby north of Stockholm.. We will compete as quartet and in the choir Zero8. Come and support us! More information on the convent here.
SUCCESS at CIRKUS!
In connection with the yearly concert held in memory of John Lennon we sang for a lot of mingling guest hosted by ONE Media. The event was incredibly successful and we even got to sing “Imagine” for Alan White in person! They say he went backstage with tears in his eyes.
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT at PK-HUSET
Two weekends in December we help raising the Christmas spirit a PK-Huset in cooperation with Habanera Music & Entertainment Production. Under several hours we sang Christmas songs for the shoppers and the personal in the Galleria and it all turned out to be a good opportunity for many to stop in the rush and get some Christmas spirit.
GOLD in IRLAND
In October 2007 we went to Cork in Ireland to compete in and International competition in barbershop. We competed against quartets from among others US, England, Ireland and Holland. Unexpectedly we won the gold and we were also the youngest competitors. Listen to an interview from the radio program "Musikministeriet" here.
