How We Began

In April of 2011, I approached some of my fellow River City Chorus members to find out the interst level in beginning a new Barbershop Quartet. By late May of 2011, Ben Bergman, Wes Tremmel, Kevin Currier, and I decided to have a couple rehearsals just to see what we sounded like (similar color, blend, inonation, etc.). By mid-June of 2011, we decided that it would be a fun and productive journey to begin a quartet, for all of them, their first quartet. A month later, after 4 more rehearsals, we began to solidify list of repetoire that we were going to focus on, and we FINALLY had a name, Full Tilt Quartet! In following blogs by all of us, we will post our thoughts about quarteting and our progression, as well as post rehearsal recordings from time to time so others may hear the progression as well. This is very exciting for us, so please enjoy!

Jamie Kelley, Full Tilt Quartet-Lead