Land O' Lakes District of SPEBSQSA

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Recent News:

5/12/07: Check out more LOL Division contest scores:
[Southwest Div.] | [10,000 Lakes Div.] | [Red Carpet Lakes Div.] | [Northwest Div.] | [Packerland Div.] | [Division One] |
5/09/07: Singing order for International Quartet Contest
5/05/07: Scores for International Quartet Prelims are now online
05/07/07: LOL to send maybe FOUR quartets to International! Congrats to After Midnight, Vocality, Voices Only, and wildcard quartet Bandwagon! (See LOLnet email with more details.)
Fall Convention in Rochester (Oct. 26-28, 2007)
Come to the Mini-HEP! (June 22-24, 2007 in La Crosse, WI...starring Flipside!)
01/18/2007: Read about the high school barbershop chorus in Oshkosh!
LOL Spring Convention in Winnipeg (May 4-6, 2007)
Sign up for Division Quartet Schools in 2007! More details:
- 02/03/2007: Eden Prairie, MN
- 02/24/2007: Rochester, MN
You can now see our Pitchpiper district bulletin in all its original glory! (PDF files)
11/21/06: Mike Laurel is retiring from Quest. (See announcement.)
11/21/06: Rick Spencer is joining Flipside (2006 International Medalists!), so his current quartet Voices Only (2006 LOL District Champs) is auditioning new tenors. (See announcement.)

Congrats to our newly-crowned champs from the District contest in Rochester Oct. 27-28, 2006: Midwest Vocal Express (chorus champs) and Voices Only (quartet champs)! Here are the top five:

Top Five Choruses	Top Five Quartets
#1: 87.7% Greendale, WI	#1: 77.4% Voices Only
#2: 86.0% Hilltop, MN	#2: 72.5% Bandwagon
#3: 80.1% Minneapolis, MN	#3: 71.6% Quarter Past Four
#4: 73.1% Fox River Valley, WI	#4: 71.6% Magnum
#5: 72.8% Fargo-Moorhead, ND	#5: 69.0% Gold Rush

You can check out the complete scores here. (I haven't seen any photos of the convention yet...if you have some, send them to my email address.)

See photos of hundreds of LOL barbershoppers singing the National Anthem at the Twins vs. Cubs game (June 25, 2006)
Check out division scores for the Southwest Division or the 10,000 Lakes Division (both on 3/18/2006)
Updated events calendar 2006-2008

Milwaukee's Lake Park Festival greets the Midwest Vocal Express (July 24, 2006)

by Rich Kirwin, MVE lead
Milwaukee, WI -- 5:00 p.m. on a hot, sticky Monday in July and picnic tables are being loaded with cheese, crackers, sandwiches, potato salad, and wine. "Pop!" go the corks to 90 minutes of that evening's "Musical Mondays" show in Lake Park, on Lake Michigan immediately north of downtown. A wide variety of music is heard each summer in this picturesque open-air setting as the regular audience of hundreds of appreciative music fans gather for classical, jazz, folk and more. Tonight’s program is 90 minutes of great a cappella entertainment presented by the Midwest Vocal Express... [read more]

Midwest Vocal Express medals at International! (July 7, 2006)

Indianapolis, IN -- For the third time in the last five years, Greendale, Wisconsin's Midwest Vocal Express men's a cappella chorus has brought home a Fifth Place Bronze medal from International Competition. This year's contest took place July 7th at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, in front of a crowd of over 10,000 Barbershop Harmony Society members and fans. Taking on roles of fish, turtles, starfish, and coral in an aquarium, the MVE sang the story of longing to be free in the deep sea. [read more]

Recent News:

Milwaukee's Lake Park Festival greets the Midwest Vocal Express (July 24, 2006)

Midwest Vocal Express medals at International! (July 7, 2006)

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Milwaukee's Lake Park Festival greets the Midwest Vocal Express (July 24, 2006)

Midwest Vocal Express medals at International! (July 7, 2006)

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