The Coles County Chorus
2024 Youth in Harmony Festival Concert
The 2024 Youth in Harmony concert will be tonight, Monday, Oct21 at 6pm. It will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Eastern Illinois University, Martin Lurher King Student Union.
Free Admission. Slated to perform is the boys YIH chorus, the girls YIH chorus, three quartets/ ensambles from Charleston High School, Mixed Bag (a Sweet Adelaides quartet) and South of Normal (a Barbershop Harmony and past Illinois District championship quartet. )
Enjoy!
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2024 Southern Illinois Youth In Harmony Festival
The Coles County Barbershop Chorus in cooperation with the Eastern Illinois University Music Department is sponsoring the 20th annual Southern Illinois Youth In Harmony Festival on Monday, October 21st at the Eastern Illinois University Student Union. The festival focuses on a cappella singing for high school young men and women. THERE IS NO FEE FOR ATTENDING.
The Festival ends with a FREE CONCERT on October 21st starting at 6PM. Our lineup will include:
– The High School Boys from the festival
– The High School Girls from the festival
– Three barbershop quartets from Charleston High School
– Our Teaching Quartet from Champaign Illinois – Mixed Bag
– Our headline act will be 2024 World Wide Quartet 3rd place winners – South of Normal (and are these guys aptly named they are all a little south of normal and a blast to watch them perform!
Some out and join us for this free show!
Who are we?
The Coles County Barbershop Chorus is one of the Premier a’capella mens harmony organizations in Illinois. Creating wonderful harmonies every Tuesday evening, this group of dedicated men constantly strive to improve our vocal abilities from both a technical and artistic perspective. We believe that music has the power to change lives and we are excited to have the chance to share our love of the Barbershop Style of harmony with diverse audiences.
One of the foundation tenets of our organization is the desire to give back to the communities in which we live. We do that by supporting various local charities and the vocal music programs of area High Schools. We, annually, donate thousands of dollars in support of those who are, themselves, working to make this a better world – teachers, community servants and many others.
Wanna sing?
We are always seeking ‘men of good character’ to join us in our never-ending quest to create musical art. There are no professional musicians in our group, not that you can’t join us if you’re a pro 🙂 We are, simply, a group of amateur singers and musicians, from an incredibly diverse background, who love to sing. If you love music the way we do and you would like to come and see what we are all about; if you want to be a part of something wonderful, something life-changing, come check us out!
We meet every Tuesday evening at 7:00pm. Our meeting place is the United Christian Church in Mattoon, Illinois located at 200 E Lafayette Ave.
It’s GREAT to be a Coles County Barbershopper!|