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Power Play Brings Home Gold
Love at Home brings home gold for the Slamkas.
Updated: 7/10/2003 8:58:00 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- JULY 5, 2003
International quartet champion is a family affair
Power Play is the new international barbershop quartet champion. The foursome won the pinnacle of barbershop quartet competition at the 65th annual international convention of the Barbershop Harmony Society held this week at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec.
Power Play is unique in the barbershop world in that it is made up of family members. Dad Jack Slamka sings bass with his sons Mike, the lead and Mark, the baritone, and his nephew Don Slamka, the tenor. The quartet represents the Hillsdale and Macomb County, Michigan Chapters and the Pioneer District. The quartet trophy was presented to the winner by Society President roger Lewis, who also is from the Pioneer District.
The new champion was selected from a field of 10 finalists. The quartets had been through two previous rounds of competition prior to tonight's finals. The winning group is chosen on the basis of cumulative score for the three rounds. Each quartets sings two songs in each round. Forty-three quartets sang in two quarter-final rounds Wednesday. Twenty moved ahead to Friday night's semi-final round and 10 advanced to Saturday's finals. Five judges in each of three categories -- Singing, Presentation and Music -- scored the entire contest.
The silver medalist quartet was Gotcha! from the San Jose, Santa Fe Springs and South Bay, California; Denver Mile High, Colorado Chapters, representing the Far Western District.
Three bronze medalist groups were also chosen:
(3) Metropolis from the Rincon Beach and Santa Fe Springs, California Chapters, representing the Far Western District.
(4) Uptown Sound from the Greater Central Ohio and Mansfield, Ohio; Dallas Metro, Texas Chapters representing the Johnny Appleseed District.
(5) Riptide from the Central Alabama; Marietta, Georgia; Alexandria, Virginia Chapters, representing the Dixie District.
Rounding out the top 10 were
(6) Cheers from the Northbrook and West Peoria-Metro, Illinois; St. Charles, Missouri Chapters, representing the Illinois District.
(7) Excalibur from the Northbrook, Illinois; Hilltop, Minnesota; Frank H. Thorne Chapters, representing the Land O' Lakes District.
(8) Flipside from the Greater Portland and Tualatin Valley, Oregon Chapter, representing the Evergreen District.
(9) Wheelhouse from the Wilmington, Delaware; Bowie, Maryland; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Chapters, representing the MidAtlantic District.
(10) Saturday Evening Post from the Monument Hill, Colorado; Dallas Metro, Houston and Town North Plano, Texas Chapters, representing the Southwestern District .
For detailed scoring information, visit the Barbershop Harmony Society web site at www.spebsqsa.org .
The Barbershop Harmony Society, founded in 1938 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is today the world's largest all-male singing organization. Membership numbers about 33,000 throughout North America. There are eight official foreign affiliates of the Society in England, Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. But barbershop harmony is sung in more than 40 countries around the world, including Finland, Japan, China, Russia and Israel.
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