Our featured barbershop quartet, HI-Fidelity, is the 2002 Buckeye Invitational Grand Champions, four-time Southern California Division Quartet Champions and reigning 2005 Far Western Division Champions, which includes California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Southern Utah.
Additionally, two months before the show, the quartet won the coveted 2006 A Capella Festival Harmony Sweepstakes, which includes competitors from across the country singing, not just barbershop, but Doo-Wop, Gospel, and Jazz. All four members were also members of the Masters of the Harmony Chorus, winner of the 2005 International Chorus championship as well!
They distinguish themselves with painstaking craftsmanship, sophisticated song stylings, a strange sense of humor ... and ... they sing good too!
Left to right: Gregg Bernhard - Baritone; Martin Fredstrom - Bass; Tom Moore - Lead; Craig Ewing - Tenor
White Mountain Belles
We were pleased to welcome on our show a group of ladies that are in the process of forming a chorus of lady barbershoppers on the mountain, with the long term goal of qualifying to become affiliated with the Sweet Adelines Incorporated, International, organization.
This group is under the combined leadership of Ginny Handorf, Carolyn Morrow and Jeannie Sonne.
Our Master of Ceremonies
Dr. Solomonson is presently the Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Northland Pioneer College, where he teaches courses in speech, theatre, film, and directs two theatrical productions each academic year. His recent directorial credits include Intimations from the Brook, Enchanted April, Radium Girls, a dinner theatre production of Man of La Mancha, and the multimedia play And Then They Came for Me: Remebering the World of Anne Frank. In addition to directing and acting, his theatrical interests extend to playwriting. IN 202, he presented a staged reading of his full-length play Sweet Reasons; The Bobby Darin Story, and most recently he has collaborated on adapting a Susan Glaspell novel for the stage, which had its world premiere at NPC. Prior to joining the NPC faculty, he was the head of the Entertainment Department at Old Tucson Studios (1997 - 1999), and an adjunct faculty member in the theatre department at the University of Arizona (1998 - 2000). He earned his M. A. in Speech from Kansas State University in 1991, and his Ph. D. in Theatre Arts from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 1996.