
Johnny Appleseed District and
Cardinal District of the
Barbershop Harmony Society



Friday & Saturday
March 24-25, 2023
Dayton Convention Center
Dayton, Ohio
VIRTUAL PROGRAM
Schedule of Events
Friday, March 24, 2023
Registration Opens **
Doors Open **
Quartet Semi-Finals Contest **
President's Hospitality Room (Challenger) *
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Saturday, March 25, 2023
Registration Opens **
Doors Open **
Chorus Contest **
Biofeedback & Technology for Voice (#304) **
Standing Ovation Class (#302) **
Town Hall w/Marty Monson (#304) **
Music Reading Session (#302) **
Warm Up Practicum (#307) **
Quartet Finals **
Hospitality Rooms Open
--(Challenger/Discovery, Kitty Hawk, Armstrong) *
*Headquarters Hotel - Holiday Inn Fairborn
** Contest Site - Dayton Convention Center
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4:00 pm
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
After the Contest
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8:00 am
8:30 am
9:30 am
10:00 am
2:00 pm
2:00 pm
3:00 pm
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
7:00 pm
10:00 pm
Hospitality Rooms
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President's Hospitality Room
Friday - After Contest - Holiday Inn Fairborn - Challenger Room
All Are Invited to Attend!
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JAD & CAR Hospitality Rooms
Saturday - After Contest - Holiday Inn Fairborn
hosted by Circle City Chorus, Summit City Chorus,
and Southern Gateway Chorus
Challenger/Discovery
Kitty Hawk
Armstrong
Dayton Convention Center has a "no outside food or drink policy." There is a concession stand available in the lobby.
JAD President's Welcome
Welcome to Dayton. It is hard to believe it was already a year ago that we hosted our first in-person convention after Covid. There was a specific moment from that weekend I will never forget. I was walking around the afterglow and just stopped. I looked around, and everywhere around me, I saw groups of people talking, laughing, and singing. I heard some chords ringing and some clanging, and for a minute, I couldn’t do anything but stand there and smile. I didn’t honestly know until that moment just how much I had missed it.
I missed the contests, sure, but what I really missed was the people. I don’t ever want to take the social aspect of this hobby for granted again. In the aftermath of Covid, with all of the isolation, angst, and stress of living through a global pandemic, gathering with your community to commiserate, celebrate, and recuperate is more critical than ever.
And to get completely cliche about it, “community” isn’t even the right word. This is family. All of you are my family. I wouldn’t raise my kids in the hobby if it weren’t the case. Now while every family has a crazy uncle (that may well be me) and an annoying cousin (that may well be you), we’re still family, and I wouldn’t trade any of you. So welcome to the family reunion; it’s great to see you again. Our extended family is here from Cardinal again, and I’m very thankful for the relationship we’ve developed over the last year. The more, the merrier. We’ve got singing, contests, classes, awards, and afterglows for everyone.
On behalf of myself and the Johnny Appleseed District, welcome to Dayton. We’re glad you’re here. Now let’s have the best day ever!
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CC Snyder
JAD President


JAD Events Team
Welcome from your JAD
Director of Events & Conventions
Spring Convention 2023 is here, and we are excited to welcome everyone back to Dayton, Ohio. We are thrilled to have 17 quartets and 7 choruses! We have many opportunities outside of the contest that I hope that you will take part in. PVIs, a fireside chat with BHS CEO Marty Monson, our ever popular Music Reading Class, Presidents’ Hospitality Room on Friday, Gateway Dogs on Saturday, and lots more! Please take time to sing a tag and grab a photo with a friend you have not seen in a while! We will be sharing a link to a google drive where you can post those pictures with the entire district to share!
As always if we can help you in any way over the weekend, please let us know!
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Nathan Miller
JAD Director of Events & Conventions

CAR President's Welcome
Hey Barbershoppers! Welcome competitors and spectators alike to the Cardinal/Johnny Appleseed Districts' joint Spring Convention in Dayton. After 2 great joint conventions in 2022, we decided to return to Dayton again for Spring 2023. It was great to be able to gather for convention last year, and I’m looking forward to again hearing some great music and reconnecting with fellow Barbershoppers from both Cardinal and JAD.
Thanks to the Events teams from both CAR and JAD, as much work goes into planning and executing this event. For months the Events teams have been working on lining everything up and adjusting plans as changes required, and during the couple days of the convention people are continuing to work hard to ensure things move smoothly. Be sure to take the opportunity to thank these individuals for their work on this.
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So enjoy the music. Connect with friends old and new, both CAR and JAD. Sing a tag or 2, or more, or a couple polecats with fellow Barbershoppers. Participate in some of the non-contest activities. Mix with others while enjoying some food and beverage in the Hospitality rooms. If you’ve been to convention before, you know what a great time these are. If not, come and see. It’s great to have you here. I know you’ll have a great time. This convention also offers you the opportunity to chat with your district leaders. So stop and say hi to any of us. We’d be glad to chat with you.
“Keep the Whole World Singing!”
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Gordon Morrow
CAR President

CAR Events Team
Welcome from your CAR
Events & Conventions Vice President
Welcome to the third combined convention of the Johnny Appleseed and Cardinal Districts of the Barbershop Harmony Society. The combined district Events Teams have worked seamlessly to provide a welcoming convention, including numerous non-contest activities. There are Friday sessions for tag singing and Saturday sessions on music reading, biofeedback, the Standing Ovation program, and more tag singing. In addition, there will be hospitality rooms Saturday night for us all to gather to sing and visit each other. Convention participants will also have a terrific opportunity to join Barbershop Harmony Society CEO Marty Monson in a Town Hall meeting. Marty will present the latest data on Society impacts in our singing communities. Following Marty’s update, we will have the opportunity for a Q&A session, so please plan on joining Marty Saturday afternoon at 3 PM in the Convention Center.
In addition to all those exciting opportunities, the JAD Marketplace will be available at the Convention Center. Marketplace has much new merchandise and is a terrific opportunity to get the same items that you would get through the Society website but without the shipping charge that can add as much as 10% to the purchase price.
All in all, Dayton is going to be a “don’t miss” weekend, and the combined Events Teams look forward to sharing great barbershop memories with you!
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Skipp Kropp
CAR Vice-President of Events



BHS Judging Panel
Music
The Music judge is responsible for adjudicating the musical elements of the performance. He judges the degree to which the musical delivery demonstrates an artistic sensitivity to the song’s ongoing predominant musical element(s) and mood or story, as well as the extent to which the musical performance displays the hallmarks of the barbershop style. One of the primary hallmarks of barbershop music is its consonant harmony. Thus, the quality of performance depends largely on the ensemble presence, accurate execution, and artistic delivery of the consonant harmonies traditionally identified with the barbershop style. Indirectly, the Music judge evaluates the work of the composer and arranger. A basic prerequisite for a successful barbershop performance is that the song be appropriate to the barbershop style.
Performance
One significant goal of any art form is communication. A barbershop performance refers to how the artist communicates his/her message and vision via the transformation of a song into an entertaining experience for an audience. The performance of a song is the artist’s gift to the audience; whose experiences, memories, and imagination transform that gift into an emotional experience. The performers’ goal is to create a high level of entertainment through the performance. The means to that end are as varied as the personality, abilities, and creative skills of the performers.
Singing
Judges in this category evaluate the degree to which the performer achieves artistic singing in the barbershop style: the production of vibrant, rich, resonant, technically accurate, and highly skilled sound, created both by the individual singer’s use of good vocal techniques and by the ensemble processes of tuning, balancing, unity of sound and precision. They listen for a sense of precise intonation, a feeling of fullness or expansion of sound, a perception of a high degree of vocal skill, a high level of unity and consistency throughout the performance, and a freedom from apparent effort that allows the full communication of the lyric and song.


Calendar of Events
JAD BarberJam
Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center
Cambridge, OH
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BHS International
Louisville, KY
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JAD/CAR Joint Fall Convention
Wyndham West Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN
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JAD LEADAC
Lewis Center, OH
June 16-17, 2023
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July 2-9, 2023
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October 27-28, 2023
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January 5-6, 2024

BHS Representative
Marty Monson, BHS CEO
Town Hall Meeting with Marty
Saturday, 3:00 pm
Room 304
Dayton Convention Center
JAD Marketplace
Visit the JAD Marketplace for all your barbershop needs. Open during all contest sessions in the lobby of the Dayton Convention Center.
Everyone In Harmony
Mic Testing Chorus
with Evan Boegehold
Your chorus not competing this weekend? You can still sing on the Contest Stage with the Mic Tester Chorus! Be on the stage in the theater at 9:00 am on Saturday. The chorus will perform “Sweet and Lovely” and “Heart of My Heart”
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HFI Representative
Dennis Castiglione


Is there anything to do besides watch the contest?




INTERNATIONAL QUARTET PRELIMINARIES SEMI-FINALS
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 6:00 pm
Dayton Convention Center Theater
Presenter
Gordon Morrow
CAR President
DISTRICT CHORUS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Saturday, March 25, 2023 - 10:00 am
Dayton Convention Center Theater
Presenter
Marty Monson
BHS Chief Executive Officer
INTERNATIONAL QUARTET PRELIMINARIES
FINALS
Saturday, March 25, 2023 - 7:00 pm
Dayton Convention Center Theater
Presenter
David Zimmerman
Tenor of 2015 BHS Champion Instant Classic
Johnny Appleseed District
Leadership Team
President: C.C. Snyder
Immediate Past President: David Rubin
Executive Vice President: Karl Chapple
Secretary: David Short
Treasurer: Chad Lulfs
Member at Large SW: Buck Wick
Member at Large SE: Steve Patrick
Member at Large NE: Rusty Cates
Member at Large NW: Will Baughman

Operations Team
Director of Contest and Judging: Bari Courts
Director of Events: Nathan Miller
Director of Music Leadership: Karen Boyer
Director of Administrative Leadership: Ric Keaster
Director of Outreach: Jake Bavarsky
Director of Marketing: Sharon Stevens
Technology Czar: C.C. Snyder
Cardinal District
Leadership Team
President: Gordon Morrow
Immediate Past President: Willard Adkins
Executive Vice President: Derek Bailer
Secretary: John Frantsvog
Treasurer: Jerry Troxel
VP of Events: Skipp Kropp
VP of Leadership Development: Don Green
Member at Large: Tim Cash
Member at Large: Jonathan Snyder

Operations Team
Music & Performance
Director of Music Education: Jim DeBusman
District Rep for Contest & Judging: Kyle Kitzmiller
Membership Services
Director of Member Services: D. Joey Larr
Director of Communications: Jerry Troxel
Other District Contacts
District Registrar: Gary Sicard
District Awards Chairman: Steve McCullough