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Tags and Swipes, Winter 2018

Valley Shore Acappella Chorus

What a whirlwind VSA has experienced since One of our former members lives there and we
September! Just a week after Fall Regional, we always have a mini reunion with Betsy Kirk.
welcomed our newest and youngest member, Heidi Betsy sang Bass and was always able to hit the
Petersen! Heidi came to many rehearsals because lowest of low notes! It is inspiring to sing
her mother, Wendy, sings in our Bass wedge. She patriotic songs to some of our bravest veterans.
realized she had learned our repertoire along with We also had a performance at another favorite
her mom and decided she belonged on the risers venue, Essex Meadows. While we were so busy,
with us. We’re thrilled that Heidi joined us and Pia Kroes and Deb Marino, co-chairs of our 40th
added her bright light to our chorus. Anniversary as a Sweet Adeline Chapter Show,
spent their spare moments soliciting ads for our
program, selling admission tickets and just
generally organizing a great show. Thank you,
ladies, for doing such a bang up job. We’re so
lucky to have such dedicated members. We
weren’t alone on stage. We managed to secure 4
fabulous quartets to join us. They were, of
course, VOCE, Coastline Show Chorus’ Four
Fun, Men’s quartet, Nor’easter (including our
former director, Steve Wolf) and VSA’s in house
quartet, Quattro. The plethora of talent made for
an incredible afternoon of Barbershop! We even
had an award for a charter member of Valley
Shore who has been with our group every step of
our journey. Jeannette Fudge sings baritone and
has been board member, section leader, chorus
historian…you name it and she has done it. We
love you. Jeannette.
Heidi Petersen, our youngest member with
her big sister, Marion Ivey, fellow bass.

As we moved into the fall, we were anxiously
awaiting the 3rd International performance of our
talented director, Angie Clark. For those who
don’t know, Angie is the baritone in Region 1’s
own VOCE! Their performance on stage was
goose bump producing! VOCE placed an amazing
13th place in an extremely competitive field. We
were all so proud of VOCE and all of Region 1’s
talented singers, Boston Accent and Harmony on
the Sound.

November brought us into our busiest performance
season. We returned for the 3rd year in a row to Angie (our director) with Jeannette Fudge,
the Arbors in Manchester to celebrate Veteran’s our oldest member and charter member of VSA
Day.

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North Atlantic Region 1 Sweet Adelines