For those of you who didn't attend the Royal Canadian Legion's entertainment on Friday, it should be noted you missed a very good solid performance and it was free! The Bar Manager at the Legion, Bruce Salmonson has a buddy Paul, who sings with the barbershop quartet named Wireless. Bruce was able to talk the group into stopping over in Morden on Friday night on their way to a barbershop convention in Dauphin and performing at the Legion.
Prior to their performance at the Legion I visited their website and realized this was a group of talented individuals, and I decided to enlist the help of my friend David Destoop of "The Source Electronics" to help set up a sound and light system that befitted their talent.
The group Wireless has been together since 2005 and hale from Grand Forks and Fargo Area.
Unfortunately through poor marketing, advertising or member support, which are all common features for our local legion, the attendance was small.
The short program of 45 minutes with a further encore of 15 minutes was well received by those few who did attend what one could consider a professional and polished group..
Some local singers in attendance remarked on how exceptionally talented and versatile they performed.
Songs ranged from religious, to Broadway classics, to long forgotten ballads. There were also plenty of comedic performances within the repertoire. In general Wireless seemed to have fun while entertaining and that fun was infectious with the audience. The harmonies were clearly done to near perfection and the performance at the Legion became more of a concert than the usual bar band loud and riotous exercise. They were able to offer a mix of songs, some maybe not as memorable as others, but the shear delight of listening to their melodic and seemingly effortless harmonies overcame any lack of familiarity with the song.
In general Morden, you missed a great one of a kind performance. Check out their website by clicking on >>>http://wirelessqt.com/ .
Thanks Bruce!
2 comments:
ERRRRR!!! That should have been FRIDAY.
The poster TITCH
I didn't know they were performing, or I would have been there. I really enjoy barbershop groups. Cudos (not sure if this is the right spelling, but really want to use the word), to Bruce for getting such a good group. I have to agree there have been other events at the Legion I would have attended but found out too late. You are right Terry, they need to do better marketing and promotion of events. If Bruce would let me know what was coming, I would love to help him promote the events. It's all about non profit groups working together and partnering to ensure the survival of us all. We want to see our dear Legion survive, and that means working hard to bring people into the building, which seems to be something important to Bruce. You didn't have to do such a good write up Terry, just made us more disappointed we didn't get there
Patsy
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