Sweet AdelinesIF YOU GOWhat: Sweet Adelines Region 23 competitionWhen: Today through Saturday, April 4-6Where: Chattanooga Convention Center, 1 Carter Plaza, and Chattanooga Marriot, 2 Carter PlazaWebsite: www.sceniccitychorus.comSCHEDULENote: Thursday’s Rising Star competition and Friday’s Mass Sing Out are free. All-inclusive tickets are $20 for Friday’s quartet competition and Saturday’s chorus competition and Show of Champions.Today, April 4• Rising Star competition, 7 p.m., MarriottFriday, April 5• Mass Sing Out, noon, Marriott (free)• Quartet competition, 4 p.m., Convention CenterSaturday, April 6• Chorus competition, 12:30 p.m., Convention Center• Show of Champions, 7:30 p.m., Convention Center
Several hundred Sweet Adelines are gathering in town this weekend for their Region 23 competition and convention.
Adelines are female singers dedicated to the preservation of barbershop harmony. Scenic City Chorus, the Chattanooga affiliate of Sweet Adelines, is hosting the Region 23 meeting. Singers from 11 choruses in five states will compete for top honors.
According to Scenic City chorus member Kathy Yonka, Sweet Adelines International made a decision a year ago to redefine regions to blend some of the smaller regions into larger ones. Region 23, which covers Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle, is being combined with Region 4, adding Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, she says.
“To be centrally located, we will probably be having our competition in Kentucky,” she says, which means this may be the final opportunity for local concertgoers to hear these fine singers perform.