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The Spirit of Spokane Chorus is a community-based group of women singers proud
to be affiliated with
Sweet Adelines International, headquartered in Tulsa Oklahoma. Sweet
Adelines began in July 1945, when a group of women in
Tulsa organized the first chapter. In the ensuing years the idea
caught fire and spread by leaps and bounds. Today, worldwide
membership includes nearly 30,000 women singing in more than 600 chapters and
1200 quartets covering not only the
North American Continent, but encompassing choruses in Great Britain, Holland,
Sweden, Japan, Finland, Australia, New Zealand and West Germany to name a
few. You can learn more about Sweet Adelines International at : www.sweetadelineintl.org
The
Spirit of Spokane Chorus became an official chapter of Sweet Adelines in 1989
and won the regional Small Chorus Championship with only 20 members in our very
first year of competition. Since that time, the chorus has maintained a
commitment to excellence as we have grown in singers and experience.
With expert coaching and several years of gifted, charismatic direction by Mike
Elliott, the chorus exploded into the winners' circle for the first time on
April 4, 1998, with a performance that brought the Spokane Opera House audience
to its feet, even before the last note was sung. This entitled us to
compete at Sweet Adelines International competition in Atlanta, Georgia in fall
1999, where we placed in the top 20 in the world.
; In 2000,
we repeated the regional win, scoring high enough to be one of the top five
mid-sized choruses in the world! This gained the chorus an invitation to
international competition for our size choruses in San Antonio Texas in July 2001
where we placed second.
The women of Spirit of Spokane Chorus have proven that these awards were
not a flash in the pan with three more regional championships in 2002,
2004 and 2006. We enjoyed our journey to appearing at
International competition in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in October 2007 -- we
opened the performing chorus to Sweet Adelines in our regional area and nearly
doubled our numbers on stage.
We aren't all about competition, though -- we perform for community
events and produce an original stage show annually.
We ALWAYS welcome visitors to
our rehearsals, and invite women singers to become a part of our exciting
journey.
Please visit us any Tuesday evening at 6:45 pm
Opportunity Presbyterian Church
202 N. Pines Rd, Spokane, WA.
For more information, please contact us:
info@spiritofspokanechorus.org
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