An annual weekend event of wall-to-wall, chord cracking, barbershop quartet singing!
The AHB Rally is an invitational weekend event of non-stop quartetting and quartet partner switching. Participants sing in hundreds of quartet combinations. Up to 124 men arrive in Delaware, solidly prepared (knowing their part on twelve great international competition level songs) and ready to spend the entire weekend formally and informally quartetting! It is not a chorus-oriented event. About four months before a Brigade rally, registered participants receive music and a part dominant learning CD for the songs to be used in the rally.
There are two rounds of adjudicated quartet competitions (with randomly selected quartet members and randomly selected songs from those provided). There is also a show open to the public on Saturday night. The cost for the weekend is all-inclusive, covering registration fees, hotel accommodations, meals, and all the learning materials. Awards are given for being the guy everyone came to sing with, singing with the most combinations of men, and for winning the quartet contest. Each participant is expected to come so well prepared that everyone will be glad they sang with him. Men count on each other to be 100% prepared, with all the notes, words, and interpretations fully memorized. There is no leaning whatsoever in this event. Every man commits to being 100% prepared.
If you are a passionate, ambitious, fast learning, experienced, competitive quartet man, and you yearn for good, challenging quarteting with a network of solid, like-minded, and accomplished men, the Atlantic Harmony Brigade may be for you. This is an event for ambitious, highly motivated, reasonably experienced quarteters and/or musicians. While the Brigade is not for beginners, you don't need to be an International Champion, either. The object of the Brigade is to provide an exciting venue and a large network for strongly committed singers and fertile grounds for the development of high-level quartetting.
Registration for 2012 is closed. The AHB will be opening registration for the 2013 Rally in January 2013, right here on this website. Check back for details.
Already a member? Go to the "Members Only" page.
There are two rounds of adjudicated quartet competitions (with randomly selected quartet members and randomly selected songs from those provided). There is also a show open to the public on Saturday night. The cost for the weekend is all-inclusive, covering registration fees, hotel accommodations, meals, and all the learning materials. Awards are given for being the guy everyone came to sing with, singing with the most combinations of men, and for winning the quartet contest. Each participant is expected to come so well prepared that everyone will be glad they sang with him. Men count on each other to be 100% prepared, with all the notes, words, and interpretations fully memorized. There is no leaning whatsoever in this event. Every man commits to being 100% prepared.
If you are a passionate, ambitious, fast learning, experienced, competitive quartet man, and you yearn for good, challenging quarteting with a network of solid, like-minded, and accomplished men, the Atlantic Harmony Brigade may be for you. This is an event for ambitious, highly motivated, reasonably experienced quarteters and/or musicians. While the Brigade is not for beginners, you don't need to be an International Champion, either. The object of the Brigade is to provide an exciting venue and a large network for strongly committed singers and fertile grounds for the development of high-level quartetting.
Registration for 2012 is closed. The AHB will be opening registration for the 2013 Rally in January 2013, right here on this website. Check back for details.
Already a member? Go to the "Members Only" page.
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2012 Brigade Details
Date: August 17-19, 2012
Location: Near Wilmington, DE Show: Saturday August 18, 2012 7:30 PM Concord High School 2501 Ebright Road Wilmington, DE 19810 |
Affiliation
The A.H.B. is a sanctioned member of the Association of eXtreme Quartetting™ Harmony Brigades, a 501(c)(3) organization promoting excellence among ambitious barbershop quartet singers, a subsidiary of the Barbershop Harmony Society. |
AHB Founders
Left to Right: Charlie Ross, Neal Siegal, Mike Stoll
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