Conover’s Carolina Style Chorus Wins Regional Honors
Carolina Style Named Best Mid-Sized Chorus in Region

The Carolina Style Chorus of Sweet Adelines International has been named the best mid-sized Sweet Adeline chorus in the region. The region includes North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and parts of Tennessee. This is the first time that Carolina Style has won the mid-sized chorus division in regional competition. Carolina Style also won 3rd place among all the choruses—both large and small—in the region. The competition was held March 27 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. As the regional mid-sized chorus champions, Carolina Style is now in the running to advance to international competition, which will be held in Houston, Texas next year.

The CAROLINA STYLE CHORUS is located in Conover, North Carolina and is directed by Jean Danaher. Danaher has directed the chorus since 1998. Carolina Style has forty members who are of all ages and backgrounds. They share a love for music and singing 4-part barbershop harmony. The chorus rehearses each Thursday from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Trinity Reformed United Church of Christ in Conover. Women interested in becoming members of the Carolina Style Chorus should visit the Carolina Style web site at www.carolinastylechorus.org. They also may get information about Sweet Adelines International by visiting www.sweetadelineintl.org.

Sweet Adelines International was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is one of the world's largest singing organizations for women with more than 25,000 members in the U.S. and 12 other countries.

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The Carolina Style Chorus of Sweet Adelines International comprises 39 women from Western North Carolina. The singers come from all walks of life. They are nurses, teachers, engineers, housewives, and bankers. They are grandmothers, daughters, sisters and mothers and friends who share a love of music…four-part barbershop harmony and this love is what brings them together. Excerpt From: "We're So Excited"

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