On March 2nd the Olympic Peninsula Men’s Chorus will be presenting 2 concerts at Sequim High School Auditorium, a 2pm matinee and a 7:07pm evening show.  Tickets for both shows are $12 and all seats are general admission.

“Harmony Hi-Way” follows the chorus as they tour the United States starting in Coney Island and traveling to San Francisco.  Along the way they stop to perform songs related to where they might be on the map like “Coney Island Baby”, “Shenandoah”, and “San Francisco Bay Blues”, among others.

The bus the group has hired has some very special qualities. For example, the chorus will travel across the country in around 45 minutes including the stops.  The bus also has a very dramatic effect on the two guys who are sharing the driving.  Something that you will need to come and see for yourself.

OPMC’s guests are the Grand Olympics Chorus (GOC) of Sweet Adelines International, which is performing on the men’s show for the first time in a number of years; Aspire! a great local women’s quartet; and the quartet “No Batteries Required” will also be featured on the show.

OPMC’s special guests are “Madison Park”, whose members come from the Puget Sound area and Canada. “Madison Park” has been active in Barbershop Harmony Society competitions and in 2012 they were named the Division II Champions and were 2nd Place Medalists in the Evergreen District, which includes Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Alberta, and British Columbia. Their 2nd place medal qualified them to compete at the Barbershop Harmony Society International event.  Tickets can be purchased from any OPMC member, or GOC member, and Pacific Mist Books in Sequim, Port Book and News and the Peninsula Daily News in Port Angeles. You can contact the chorus by calling 360 681-7761 and find them on Facebook.

OPMC will be doing 2 concerts on March 2nd at the Sequim HS auditorium.  2pm and 7:07pm.   Our guests are the award winning women’s quartet  Aspire! , Madison Park an Evergreen District award winning quartet from the Puget Sound area, and the Grand Olympics Chorus of Sweet Adelines International.   Tickets will go on sale in February.

OPMC will be presenting their 2013 concert on March 2 at the Sequim HS auditorium.  At this point the working theme is “traveling” but we expect it to change as we move forward on the music.  But you can mark your calendars with March 2nd.

OPMC did a sing out at the Clallam County Fair on the Sunny Farms stage, which was temporarily tagged as the “Richard E. Davies  DDS”  stage based on the banner behind us. Good weather — not too hot.  We got a good crowd and we were even able to embarrass one of the Fair royalty by singing the song “Hello Mary Lou”   to her.

If you haven’t read anything about the BHS Membership drive called Operation Harold Hill click HERE to go the web page.  It will open in a new window or for Keith a new MACWin.

Hey guys, here’s a chance to get some barbershop-themed checks or address labels, as well as help out a fellow chorus. Click on the picture for more details.

Congratulations and a job well done to Keith for setting up the new OPMC web site using WordPress.  We’ve got all the functionality we had before and more because there is more room for others to add STUFF.  The new site should also be easier for everyone to get around on and will be more up to date then OPMENSCHORUS 1.0

Thanks Keith

Jim Davis started as the OPMC Director in April 2012.

Jim started singing Barbershop in Jr. High School, but took it up in earnest in 1995 with the Carson City, NV chapter.  Within 6 months with that chapter, he started directing the chorus.

Since then he has directed the Santa Cruz chapter, which is a mixed chorus and has been Associate Director the Prescott Valley and Olympia chapters.  For two years he was the Assistant Choir Director of Tolt Congregational Church in Carnation, WA.  Jim has honed his directing skills by attending the Societies Harmony / Directors college six times and is one class short of being a “Master Director” with the Society, and that will be remedied in June of this year.  He has sung in many choruses, church choirs and quartets as Lead and plans on staying active in Barbershop for many years to come.