HOSPITALITY ROOM

AREA 5 GOODIES – Shop Til You Drop Boutique

  • Chordspinners – Where handcrafted items are really appreciated! Homemade music bags, ceramics, musical linen napkins, aprons and oven mitts, cookbooks, knitted scarves and slippers, and homemade bath salts.
  • Nickel City Sound – Beautifully made scarves and hobo bags – hand-crafted from sweaters no longer being used – really attractive and oh so cozy! Also, music themed headbands, scrunchies and earrings.
  • Shades of Harmony – A bevy of wonderful items! Cross stitch, ruffle and winter scarves, fabric ball decorations, snoods, pitch pipe pouches, tote bags, quartet scarves, paintings and, of course, chocolates!
  • Sugartones – How sweet it is! Honey bears, honey jars, honey garlic sauce, honey balsamic vinaigrette, honey roasted almonds and honey soap bars. Wonder why Area 5’s newest chorus is called “Sugartones”? Because Alliston, ON, is the hometown of Sir Frederick Banting, the co-inventor of insulin!
  • The Over Tones – Quilted purses, grocery bags, gift cards, note cards, make-up bags made of musical note fabric, dish cloths, earrings, stained glass musical notes, and Christmas ornaments.

AUCTIONS – FRONT ROW SEATS!

Place your bids for the best seats in the auditorium!Upgrades to Front Row seatsfor the Parade of Champions and each contest are on the block…going, going, gone!Tickets for the events must be purchased separately.
Bidding on seats will close one hour before the start of each event. Winners will be announced by the emcee at the beginning of each event. Bid as much or as often as you like. All monies raised will go toward future educational programs...a good cause!

BHS PROPERTIES – TBA

GEEK Books – A ‘Must Have’ Best Seller

Get your indispensable guide to this year’s convention from Women of Note – perfect for creating a lasting memory. With 23 choruses and 28 quartets, this is the best way to get to know them better. Chocked full of quartet and chorus stats, exclusive interviews with competitors and champions, puzzles, tags & lots more, it’ll help you follow along and keep track of everything you see and hear the whole week! With this year’s “Casino” edition, it’s not Aces, but Queens that are high!

To preorder, visit the publisher’s website:

GIFT BASKETS – For Youth Outreach

What an array of baskets…you gotta see these! Thanks to all the choruses, quartets and members who’ve contributed. Too many to list, but here’s just a small sampling: AEPs for 2014; money trees; quartets who will perform with no talent fee; vintage Harmony Queen CDs; aquilt; “What a Girl Wants” youth basket, coffee baskets, placemats, do-it-yourself quilt making kit, lovely things from Canada, from Wisconsin…you name it!

HOT CDs

Get Epic’s, Foreign Exchange’s and Capital Chordettes’ new releases…hot off the press! Plus, if you don’t already have ‘em, get your favorites from After Hours,Boston Accent, Change of Heart, For Heaven’s Sake, “IMAGES”, Mystique, Showcase and Synchronicity. Also, Northern Blendwill have CDs!

Need we say more?

VENDOR – Groupanizer

Wanna get organized? Several HI chorusesalready use Groupanizer for managing various aspects of their operations. Now’s your opportunity to check out this vendor for yourself!

Capital Chordettes – use as primary source for chapter information and as a key decision-making tool (e.g., for rehearsal and performance planning, storing learning tracks, sheet music, calendar events, attendance, member rosters, status tracking, mailing lists, bylaws & rules, riser placement, meeting minutes, coaching notes, vocal exercises).

A Cappella Showcase– use for calendar, attendance, email, music, and the interactive riser program. Groupanizer also designed their public website.

Bella Nova Chorus – use for storing music files, scheduling rehearsals, blogging, dues tracking. Although not “super user friendly on the back end,” according to Bella Nova Chorus, “we enjoy having a secret ‘playground’ for everything pertaining to our chorus.”