Love to Sing? Sweet! Sweet Adelines International Is Teaching the World to Sing

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Jan 12, 2012, 07:40 ET

TULSA, Okla., Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sweet Adelines International is one of the world's largest music education associations for women. Members extend over five continents and belong to more than 500 choruses. This month, choruses from all over the globe are teaching the world to sing by participating in an organization-wide Global Open House event. Women of all ages who enjoy singing are invited to find and visit a Sweet Adelines International chorus during the month of January.

Sweet Adelines International endows nearly 23,000 members with the mastery of singing barbershop harmony. This style of music is defined as unaccompanied, close-harmony singing produced by four parts: lead, tenor, baritone and bass. The a cappella style and the ear training necessary for independent part singing make it one of the most challenging and rewarding accomplishments of a vocal ensemble. When the music is sung accurately and with good breath support and vocal techniques, barbershop harmony produces overtone vibrations that create a resonant ring unique to this form of music.

Local choruses are the laboratories where members receive basic training in barbershop harmony. Programs are designed to inspire women to reach their full singing potential. Any woman of average singing ability, with or without vocal training, will find a part that fits her voice range.

Members enjoy unlimited training and educational opportunities as well as spectacular performance, entertainment and competition possibilities. It's a rich, rewarding experience to sing with a worldwide community of friends who value the joy of singing four-part, a cappella harmony.

To find a local chorus and for more information about Sweet Adelines International, call toll-free 1.800.992.7464 or 918.622.1444, email [email protected] or visit http://www.sweetadelineintl.org. View a list of choruses that are participating in the January 2012 Global Open House event here, http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/filesSite/participatingchapters.pdf.

About Sweet Adelines International

Sweet Adelines International is a worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education, competition and performance. The organization is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma where it was founded in 1945. This nonprofit music education association is one of the world's largest singing organizations for women encompassing more than 23,000 members, 1,000 registered quartets and 500 choruses located in most of the fifty United States, Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, The Netherlands and Wales. In 2009, Sweet Adelines International set a Guinness World Record for Largest Singing Lesson. The lesson involved 6,651 participants and was achieved during Sweet Adelines International's 63rd Annual Convention and Competition at the Sommet Center in Nashville, Tenn. on October 24, 2009.