Saturday 2nd September, 1-5.00pm, Garin College This workshop offers an opportunity for women singers in the Nelson area to learn from and sing with one of New Zealand’s top a cappella groups, ZEAL Quartet. Nelson Bays Harmony are bringing ZEAL to Nelson for this one-off workshop after a very successful road show in Nelson last […]

College and intermediate students throughout the Nelson region recently had the opportunity to hear one of NZs top women’s barbershop quartets. ZEAL quartet is based in Auckland and the members are aged 21 and under. They competed for the first time and came third in this year’s Sweet Adelines national competition. Earlier this month the […]

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Traditionally a men’s art form, barbershop singing is now an addictive hobby for approximately 30,000 Sweet Adelines across the globe, including 700 women in NZ. Nelson has a chorus of around 40 singers who share the Sweet Adelines passion for singing, and teaching others to sing, unaccompanied 4-part harmony in the barbershop style. Barbershop music […]

Nelson Bays Harmony chorus members returned home elated this week after receiving the Audience Choice Award for their performance at the Sweet Adelines singing competition in Auckland. The event involved several hundred women from around NZ, singing in quartets and choruses and being judged by an international panel of women trained and qualified to adjudicate […]

Nelson Bays Harmony chorus once again impressed audiences at Nelson’s Theatre Royal, during two “Last Night of the Proms” concerts hosted by Nelson City Brass over the weekend. Always ready to get into the spirit of the event, chorus members waved flags and tooted along with the band and the enthusiastic audience during the rousing […]

Twenty years ago an advert appeared in the Nelson Evening Mail inviting women who enjoy singing in harmony to come to a meeting on Sunday, March 14. About 30 women turned up and were entertained by the “Sounds of Picton” Sweet Adelines chorus (now disbanded) who then broke into sections with each woman attending the […]

Members of Nelson Bays Harmony have had a busy few weeks preparing their repertoire of barbershop music for an hour long concert, performed last week for residents of Oakwoods Retirement Village on Friday night and at Ernest Rutherford on Tuesday night. The chorus performs at both these venues once or twice each year, and in […]

The STAR Chorus comprises non competing Sweet Adelines from all around New Zealand.  Members practise before each convention from recordings and sheet music and after 3 or 4 hours of intense coaching during convention, perform on stage. This year 8 members of Nelson Bays Harmony Chorus sang two songs, Jada and the New Zealand Song.  We […]

Another convention has come and gone – hugely rewarding fun despite the fact that we weren’t competing this year. Possibly it was even better for that reason. Off Beat quartet competed and although not highly placed, were fabulous. Once again, they were the best dressed – very stylish in a little pink and grey ‘ensemble’.  […]