20th Annual

The Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival, the premier American showcase for vocal harmony music, celebrates its 20h year in 2004. The annual national competition draws from hundreds of vocal groups from around the country with regional competitions in eight cities. The winning group from each festival is flown to perform in front of celebrity judges and a sold out house of enthusiastic a cappella fans at the National Finals

2004 Pacific NW champions

Heebee-jeebees

Heebee-jeebees are two-time winners of the Canadian A Cappella Championships--Northern Harmony. In 1998, they won First Place and Audience favourite at the Pacific North West Harmony Sweeps, becoming the first Canadian group to advance to the Sweeps finals. The Heebee-jeebees have released 4 CDs. "Hurry Up and Wait" is a collection of 50s classics. "Heebee-jeebeeTV" is all original material, including a collection of Hj movies. "Waiting Under the Mistletoe" and "Fa La La La La" contain fun new takes on holiday favorites. The group s recordings have won 3 CARA recording awards, including Best Comedy Album and Best Comedy Song.
Members - Chris Herard, Jonathan Love, Ken Lima-Coelho, Cedric Blary

2004 Results
1st
 Heebee-jeebees
2nd
 Realtime
3rd
 In Voice
Audience Favorite
 Heebee-jeebees
Best Original Arrangement
 "Be My Oko Yono" arr. by Heebee-jeebees

2004 Contestants

Baudboys are Microsoft's premiere men's a cappella singing group. (Okay, maybe we're the only one. But we're still pretty good!) We perform all styles of music, from rock to folk to classical, with as much humor as we can inject. The group has been in existence on the Microsoft campus for over 12 years. None of the original members remain in the group, having long since retired when those stock option thingies were still worth something. Currently, the longest tenure is about 7 years. When we re not building the next generation of software, we perform on the Microsoft campus, and for various charitable and non-profit organizations in the area.
Members - Jon Schwartz, Graham Sheldon, David Adelsman, Owen Braun, Dave McEwen, Tom Cooper, Mark Adolph

Heebee-jeebees are two-time winners of the Canadian A Cappella Championships--Northern Harmony. In 1998, they won First Place and Audience favourite at the Pacific North West Harmony Sweeps, becoming the first Canadian group to advance to the Sweeps finals. The Heebee-jeebees have released 4 CDs. "Hurry Up and Wait" is a collection of 50s classics. "Heebee-jeebeeTV" is all original material, including a collection of Hj movies. "Waiting Under the Mistletoe" and "Fa La La La La" contain fun new takes on holiday favorites. The group s recordings have won 3 CARA recording awards, including Best Comedy Album and Best Comedy Song.
Members - Chris Herard, Jonathan Love, Ken Lima-Coelho, Cedric Blary

In Voice is a six member a cappella group based out of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. It is a cappella that blends funk, groove, and melody to create an innovative style of music. They have been together for four years, singing at different events around the state of Washington
Members - Joel Cummings, Adam Utley, Dustin Smith, Matt Coughlin, Bryan Hinschberger, Dalton Shotwell

KlapaDooWopella features the soulful romantic sounds of traditional Croation "Klapa" singing, while offering a diverse repertoire of international a cappella genre; earthy folk songs from Bosnia, Slovenia, Italy, Serbia and - as its name implies - American doo wop. Klapas are the a cappella singing groups that hang out on the street corners in towns up and down the Adriatic coast of Croatia. The passionate harmonic blend of these Klapa songs evoking lost love, raging seas, and uncaught fish is the core of KlapaDooWopella s work. Despite their delightful forays into other acappella media, the quartet always returns to its first love, the moan of the sea that is the primal chord of the Klapa song. KlapaDooWopella offers the traditional klapa song along with more recent songs of the doo wop genre in a unique blend that is sure to delight even the most begrudging concert goer. The group is preparing for an upcoming Adriatic Tour presenting a series of concerts in Italy and Croatia.
Members - Bill, Weis, Phil Parham, Jim Hoath, Ted Hunter

Notorious: What do you get when you combine a Starbucks manager/dance instructor, a traveling computer salesman, a Behavorial Specialist, a Human Resource Supervisor, a Restaurant Manager/bartender and a Massage Therapist/private music teacher? You get Olympia's newest a cappalla group - Notorious. Members of Notorious are all veterans of other performing groups such as the Akafellas, DoubleShot, Chanteuse, and The Silhouettes. Notorious is from the Olympia area and was formed about a year ago. Last year, four of its members competed in the Northwest Harmony Sweepstakes as Double Shot. This year, they gained an extra pair of voices to broaden their musical horizons. They enjoy singing many styles of music and are constantly trying to find unique songs to put through the "a cappella filter". Despite their many busy schedules, Amber, Jon, Stephanie, Michi, Tony, and Lee find time to get together, eat, drink, laugh... and sometimes even sing. Their love for music and warped sense of humor combine to make them Notorious... but in a good way.
Members - Jon Morgan, Amber Riley, Stephanie Claire, Tony Benjamins, Michi Imaura, Lee Tran

Realtime is an a cappella vocal group dedicated to "music in the moment" that sings and performs a wide variety of music from contemporary a cappella to barbershop and everything in between. With roots in three countries, Canada, the United States and Australia, Realtime is a group with an international flair that performs all around the world. Home base is Vancouver, British Columbia, although one member lives across the border in Lynden, Washington. Realtime loves an audience, and can accommodate a variety of performance situations including concerts, barbershop chapter shows, special events, serenades, or even drive-by singings. An amateur group (as in, they all have day jobs), they perform for the love of performing, but strive for nothing less than professional caliber in everything they do.
Members - Tim Broersma, John Newell, Mark Metzger, Tom Metzger

SoundDesign is all about a cappella great a cappella. SoundDesign met and sang together for the first time in November of 1998 and we've been at it ever since &with one change: we now have a new bass, Kari Metzger, from Vancouver, B.C. She's awesome and we're having fun getting acquainted, learning new music, laughing, and planning new shtick. We are Carolyn Huber (tenor), Katy Sansburn (lead), Sue Beck (baritone), and Kari Metzger (bass). We each have experience with other successful quartets and choruses but bringing this foursome together is magical. Please pick up one of our CDs in the lobby before you leave. It features a live performance of "Peal Me a Grape" - our signature song. Enjoy all the fine entertainment this evening! And keep on singing!
Members - Carolyn Huber, tenor, Sue Beck, baritone, Kari Metzger, bass, Katy Sansburn, lead

Complete list of 2004 national participants

Judges

Lisa Bordoff is a clinical law professor at Seattle University School of Law and a professional musician. At Seattle University, she teaches courses and clinics in Elder Law, Administrative Law, Trusts and Estates, and Special Education, and rewards her students for singing back the answers to her questions. Prior to her teaching position, she was the Chief Administrative Law Judge for the Washington State Office of Administrative Hearings, Chief Review Judge for the Department of Social and Health Services, and a Staff Attorney at Puget Sound Legal Assistance Foundation (now Columbia Legal Services) for 13 years, practicing in the areas of Elder Law and Public Benefits. Professor Brodoff is also a Tribal Court Judge for the Northwest Intertribal Court System. In her musical life, Lisa sings, plays bass, and writes music for the alternative feminist band, The Righteous Mothers. She also sings back up and plays bass for the legal services funk cover band, Func Pro Tunc

Heather Stein graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a Masters Degree in K-12 Music Education in 1994. After graduation Heather began teaching choral music in the Olympia School District. For the last seven years Heather has been the choir director at Capital High School. In addition to her high school choral responsibilities, Heather also teaches 4th and 5th grade music at LP Brown, Garfield and McLane elementary schools. At Capital, Heather conducts four choirs: a jazz choir, a women's choir and two mixed choirs. Heather also has worked with the drama department conducting the pit orchestra for the school's musicals. In the past Heather has enjoyed singing with the Pacific Lutheran Choral Union, and the Olympia Choral Society.

Dan Schwartz is in his tenth year as choral director for Olympia High School. He is also a private voice instructor. As a member of ACDA and WMEA, he has adjudicated many choral contests and festivals. Dan has sung barbershop with the Schwartz Brothers since he was just a little guy (It's a family thing).

Trist Curliss is a co-founder of the vocal group, m-pact. He has performed with m-pact in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Tunisia, Singapore, Estonia, and throughout the United States. He has also made several trips to Japan with the group, where they were featured on Fuji television. He has produced, composed, arranged, and performed on the three albums with the group, including the multi-award winning "The Carol Commission." Before the group, Trist majored in Music Education at the University of Northern Colorado, where he participated in a variety of musical offerings, including the a cappella jazz sextet, Et Cetera; several choirs; and large-scale opera productions. He also directed a vocal jazz ensemble there-one of only a few undergrads ever to do so. Trist has participated as an instructor at many vocal jazz camps, including currently at the Rocky Mountain Vocal Jazz Camp in Colorado and Northwest Vocal Jazz Camp in Washington. He has served as an adjudicator at vocal jazz festivals throughout the country.

Scott Farrell has been a professional actor, singer, music director and teacher for over 30 years. As a featured actor and singer he has appeared on cruise ships, in theatres and nightclubs in New York City, Miami, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and Bermuda, For sixteen years he was music director for Greg Thompson Productions, one of the largest producers of staged revue shows in the world, where he arranged and directed over 50 world-class revues. He is currently an adjunct music faculty member at The Evergreen State college, where he directs the college s choral group, The Evergreen Singers. Scott has private voice studios in both Olympia and Seattle, where his students range in age from 12 to 83. On March 14, at the college Recital Hall, The Evergreen Singers will be presenting a concert of all a cappella music, featuring special guests National Harmony Sweepstakes winners M-Pact.

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