- Irish Blessing - Happy St Patrick's day
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Date Posted: Sun, Mar 17 2024
- Welcome Barbara who joined us in February
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Date Posted: Sun, Mar 3 2024
Please welcome Barbara (lead) to Westwind Harmony Chorus who also joined us in February. We are excited to have another lead join our group. She is new to Sweet Adelines; however, she has a musical background and has sung in various choral/choir as well as an elite glee club. Welcome to Westwind Harmony Chorus! Pictured with Barbara, who is in the middle, are Marsha - Team Leader and Brent - Director.
- Welcome new members Judy and Maddie
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Date Posted: Mon, Feb 26 2024
Welcome Maddie (lead) and Judy (Bari) to Westwind Harmony Chorus. We are so thrilled to have them both. Judy also sings with the Scottsdale Chorus and the Bari section is BARI happy to have her in their section! Maddie’s mom, Amy, who is a member of Westwind Harmony sings lead and who is Maddie’s sponsor, also sings with Scottsdale Chorus. The leads are delighted to have Maddie in their section and of course Amy is ecstatic and proud!
Pictured with Maddie and Judy are Brent, Director and Marsha, Team Leader.
Mom and Daugher picture Amy and Maddie.
- Happy Birthday Brent Feb 26, 2024
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Date Posted: Mon, Feb 26 2024
Westwind Harmony Chorus had a birthday celebration last week, Feb 26 for our wonderful, talented, and superb director Brent. We celebrated Brent – this was his day and we started it off with some great performance followed by birthday cake, cookies, and gifts! The items below were from our chorus; not pictured are the goodies and cards he also received.
- Happy Anniversary Westwind Harmony Chorus Feb 16
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Date Posted: Fri, Feb 16 2024
Happy 15th Anniversary to Westwind Harmony Chorus!
- Welcome three new Members - Karen, Janet and Autumn
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Date Posted: Sat, Dec 23 2023
Welcome Karen (Bari), Janet (Bass) and Autumn (Tenor) pictured with Shirley - Membership Coordinator, Brent - Director, and Theresa - co-director.
Karen is a former member of Westwind Harmony Chorus and a chartered member. Janet and Autumn are very familiar with Sweet Adelines with a lot of experience with different choruses. Westwind Harmony Chorus is thrilled to have this trio join them!!!
Karen, Shirley, Janet and Autumn
Karen, Janet and Autumn are Shirley, Brent - Director and Co-Director Theresa
Pictured below are the 3 new members Karen, Autumn and Janet with their section leaders (Lori, Jo and Vicki)
- Happy Holidays
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Date Posted: Fri, Dec 22 2023
Westwind Harmony Chorus wishes you and your families the happiest holidays this season!
- Welcome our seven new members that sang with us the first time in our holiday programs
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Date Posted: Thu, Dec 21 2023
Actually, we had 8 new singers, Phoenix is pictured in the group picture only.
- Holiday A Cappella Work Shop 10-28-23
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Date Posted: Sat, Oct 28 2023
On October 28, 2023, Saturday, we had our Holiday workshop and spent about 4 hours shaping up our holiday A Capella Concert! It was an awesome workshop, and we all feel great about what we accomplished and will continue to rehearse and perform and be ready for our concerts in December.
We all figured Christmas is around the corner and we will be wearing our holiday attire soon, so we decided to something different and wore Hawaiian shirts! Aloha!
- Congrats to Brent and Theresa on their outstanding accomplishments!
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Date Posted: Wed, Oct 18 2023
At chorus this past week Oct 16, 2023, our team leader Marsha shared with us the following:
'So often we don’t realize how lucky we are …. We tend to take things for granted. Well, let me tell you, Brent and Theresa are very special.
This past weekend, Theresa gave a wonderful, well received, class at the Far Western District Convention and Competition. She recently has traveled all over the world coaching choruses and quartets.
Later in the weekend Brent was honored with a commemorative plaque honoring his 25 years as a Barbershop Harmony Society judge. He is also recognized as a premier arranger as he has arranged over 300 songs. He not only arranged music but is so generous with his coaching skills. He is always willing to help a chorus or quartet with a new introduction or tag for their music.
Let’s be sure to NOT take this wonderful duo for granted. We are so blessed to have them as our leadership team!'
Marsha is so right; we are blessed and so grateful to have these two on our team! Saying it out loud is needed sometimes.
Congrats to Brent and Theresa on their outstanding accomplishments and what they do and give to the Barbershop communities!
- Westwind Harmony Chorus night out to see 'Go for the Gold' show
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Date Posted: Fri, Oct 6 2023
Members from Westwind Harmony Chorus went to Scottsdale Chorus' 'Go for the Gold' performance, which was amazing. Our very own member Amy M is also in the Scottsdale chorus. We also saw awesome performances by PHX quartet, SparX quartet and A Capella Syndicate chorus, which our director Brent G also co-directs the A Capella Syndicate! What a fun, beautiful and entertaining evening.
- Welcome Jessica our newest member!
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Date Posted: Mon, Sep 18 2023
Welcome the newest member, Jessica (Jazz), to Westwind Harmony Chorus. Jazz sings the Lead part and will be a great addition to our chorus and lead section!
- WHC Sweet Adeline of the year 2023
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Date Posted: Tue, Jul 25 2023
The Sweet Adeline of the Year for 2023 exemplifies all the qualities and then some.... Here is the perfect example of what this year’s sweet adeline of the year does for the chorus:
- She has stepped up on numerous occasions to make things happen for the chorus.
- If a Management Team Member is unable to be at a meeting - she fills in for that Member’s tasks.
- When our Financial Officer was down with cancer, this person stepped in and helped her get through the Westwind financial tasks. This person was not only doing her job, but also the financial job. It became apparent that something had to change.
- This person gave up the role she loved as Team Leader for 7.5 years and graciously stepped into the role of Financial Officer.
- Welcome Westwind Harmony Chorus newest member
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Date Posted: Thu, Jul 20 2023
Welcome the newest member, Marian, to Westwind Harmony Chorus. Marian sings the Baritone part and will be a great addition to our chorus.
- WHC surprised Theresa W.
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Date Posted: Fri, Jul 14 2023
Monday night, July 10, Westwind Harmony Chorus surprised Theresa Weatherbee with honoring her accomplishments and her well-deserved position as the first woman judge for BHS international Convention. She judged in the performance category last week which was in Louisville Kentucky. We are so proud of her! Westwind Harmony is honored and blessed to have her as our Assistant Director and Performance Coach.
Brent and T
- Fiscal year May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023 – the top ten
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Date Posted: Thu, Jul 13 2023
Fiscal year May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023
It was a fabulous year with lots of wonderful memories here are the top ten:
- Celebration dinner: Installment of officers, presented longevity awards and the 2022 Sweet Adelines of the year Mags (WHC MacGyver). It was fabulous!
- WHC weekend Retreat with lots of learning, singing, performing, getting to know each other better, and playing fun games! It was great with lots of fun!
- Halloween Party – strolled to the Monster Mash – fun night and great costumes.
- Holidays with 5 private holiday performances and 1 public Holiday Concert with DesertAires and Westwind Harmony Choruses.
- Holiday Party
- The largest guest night for the year was ten.
- New year – jumped right into getting ready for competition with a Saturday workshop.
- Family and Friends night prior to going to regional contest.
- Regional contest in New Mexico after 3 long years – It was a good learning experience. We had fun together and bonded even more as a group! PHX quartet came in 4th place which is so awesome!
- Sing A Capella Workshop – which was a great success and gained two more members.
- Sing A Cappella was a huge success
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Date Posted: Fri, Jun 30 2023
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Second Quarter - 2023
Westwind Harmony has new shirts, color blue with a new logo and on the back of shirt is our name in bling. We got our shirts just in time for our Sing A Cappella workshop.
Sing A Cappella was a huge success for Westwind Harmony Chorus on April 29, 2023. We had fourteen women register for the workshop and the four hours just flew by. With the help of region 21 4th place medalist, PHX Quartet, we had lots of fun learning a new song, putting together a performance plan and getting to perform it. We are so excited; we are already planning for next year’s workshop. Since the workshop, we had 3 ladies that were at our workshop are now members of the chorus.
In June - we wore our new blue shirts during rehearsal to bring awareness to arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) Day June 30. One of our members, the one in the middle, granddaughter, Mo, has this condition.
Catch all the news with photos, videos, and stories under ‘More News’
See photo page for additional photos.
- Westwind Harmony would like to introduce our newest member, Joi
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Date Posted: Tue, Jun 13 2023
Westwind Harmony would like to introduce our newest member, Joi, who will singing lead! We are excited to have her join us!
- Welcome our newest member Phoenix
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Date Posted: Tue, May 16 2023
Westwind Harmony welcomes their newest member, Phoenix. We are pleased to have her with us. She is an awesome bass and her tone is smooth and sounds fantastic and we our exicted to have her in our chorus.
Pictured is Phoenix, newest member on the left and Marsha on the right filling in for Shirley; Marsha gave Phoenix her name badge.
- Wrapping up on the first quarter of 2023
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Date Posted: Tue, Mar 21 2023
FIRST QUARTER - 2023
Brent Graham, director and Theresa Weatherbee, co-director/performance coach and members of Westwind Harmony chorus have been working hard on new songs and getting ready for Sweet Adelines, Region21 competition in Alburqueque NM March 16-18. The big event finally arrived and we all had a great time being together and seeing people we haven't seen in over 3 years. The bonding alone with each other was the best part! We had a lot of fun! It was exhausting and are glad to be home. For more photos, click on 'News & Events' then select 'photos' to see 2023 competition highlights album.
We are now getting ready for 'Sing A Cappella' workshop for women of all ages occurring on Saturday April 29th 2023.
- Happy Birthday Westwind Harmony
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Date Posted: Mon, Feb 13 2023
- Welcome our newest two members
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Date Posted: Tue, Jan 24 2023
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Welcome Kay, who sings bari, and LauraJean, who sings lead to Westwind Harmony Chorus; they both are a great addition and are proud to have them!
- Happy New Year
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Date Posted: Mon, Jan 2 2023
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HAPPY NEW YEAR - 2023
Brent Graham is the director of Westwind Harmony Chorus and Theresa Weatherbee is co-director/performance coach and have been with us now for one full year! Westwind Harmony Chorus feels blessed to have both and are incredibly grateful! We had a very busy year with coaching weekend with Debra Lynn. Our own weekend retreat with Brent and Theresa. Learned new songs to add to our repertoire for general and holidays. Cleaned up some of the old repertoire songs. We had a fabulous awards banquet and installment of officers and more... We finished the year out with our holiday programs! We are now gearing up for Regional competitions!
- Happy Holidays 2022 from Westwind chorus
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Date Posted: Sun, Dec 18 2022
Happy Holidays from Westwind Harmony Chorus 2022!!
- Holiday Party 2022
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Date Posted: Sun, Dec 18 2022
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2022 Holiday Party - ended the night with our circle up song, 'How we Sang'. It was a fun night with lots of snacks, pizza, disserts and beverages!
- A Cappella Christmas Concert featuring two choruses Sunday December 18 was a success
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Date Posted: Mon, Dec 12 2022
Cappella Christmas Concert featuring two choruses Sunday December 18, a one time afternoon show went very well!
Westwind Harmony chorus, a women's group, and a chapter of region 21 Sweet Adelines International, along with the Desert Aires chorus, a men's group and a Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society held a spectacular A Cappella Christmas concert for one glorious afternoon only!
It was an awesome concert and loved by all and thank you to Westwind Harmony and Desert Aires choruses and their directors Brent Graham and Cary Burns! Outstanding!!!
- Sweet Adeline of 2022
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Date Posted: Tue, Jul 5 2022
Our Sweet Adeline of the year, 2022, goes to Mags:
The SAY for 2022 exemplifies all the qualities and then some…
Here is the perfect example of what this year’s SAY does for the chorus:
After many months of zoom meetings, due to good old Covid, a lot of members wanted more activities. SAI created some free music and learning tracks, in hopes to create one big virtual video. While no one was tasked with this effort, one member did step up and volunteer to take it on! She trained everyone on how to create audio and video files and how to upload them to the location on the web. Then she spent countless hours tweaking each audio/video file and got them sent to SAI. Everyone enjoyed the effort and asked if more could be done, so guess who stepped up again? The 2022 SAY not only tweaked the files, but she also then merged them all into one virtual video! Wow is all we could say!
Mags did all the things I talked about, but she also plays piano (all four parts) and has helped the chorus during many rehearsals. She is the MacGyver of our chorus.
Since this award, our director, has her on the music team to assist us with the technical aspect!
- Video highlights of WHC Fiscal year from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2022
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Date Posted: Sun, Apr 24 2022
A glimpse of WHC fiscal year May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022 - Virtual videos
- First gathering at the park after many months of being away
- Getting back to singing in person with our fellow members each week after not doing it for 16 months
- Sweet Adeline of the year celebration
- Holiday performances
- Holiday parties
- Retirement parties for former director Bill Shaw
- Welcoming new director Brent Graham
- 13 years Anniversary for WHC
- Debra Lynn sessions
- Sectionals
- Having fun with dance moves
- Management Team hard at work each month
See video as it says it all!
YouTube Video URL:
- Management Team meets to review current positions.
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Date Posted: Sun, Apr 10 2022
A lot has changed in the last few years and it was a good time to do some adjustments to some of the current positions; therefore, the Management Team met and revamped some of the positions.
- Monday night rehearsal some fun shots
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Date Posted: Thu, Mar 24 2022
Learning some new dance steps and having fun!
- Westwind Harmony Chorus March Madness with Debra Lynn
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Date Posted: Wed, Mar 16 2022
Westwind Harmony Chorus had their own March Madness:
Westwind Harmony had an amazing coaching session with the extraordinary Debra Lynn March 4 through March 7. Her teachings are life changing as a singer and it feels wonderful to be able to sing with such ease.
All members had a PVI session with Debra. There were workshops for each of the sections and a workshop for the chorus during their regular Monday evening sessions. Besides the education, there was bonding, confidence in self and in each other and belief that the methods taught do work and of course a lot of fun! To see all the pictures, go to the 'Photos' page under 'News & Events' tab.
