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BARBERSHOP TAKES THE COSTA DEL<br />
SOL BY STORM!<br />
event on the <strong>Costa</strong> del Sol. “Our delegates<br />
come from all over Europe, and we are keen<br />
to establish convention venues with excellent<br />
travel connections and accommodation.” said<br />
SABS Vice President, Lyn Baines.<br />
attended. Spangles was performing as outgoing<br />
champions and will compete again in<br />
2013 in Alicante, but they are delighted<br />
that their Fénix quartet won a bronze medal<br />
against stiff competition, with FourMidablesmen’s<br />
Quartet winning silver for the second<br />
year running in the SABS National Contest.<br />
Some 600 barbershop aficionados took Benalmádena<br />
by storm when they arrived for<br />
their fourth annual convention. This is the<br />
first time that the Spanish Association of<br />
Barbershop Singers (SABS) has based its<br />
Talk Radio Europe’s Mark Curry interviewed<br />
‘Cleftomania’, a SABS mixed quartet from the<br />
Algarve in Portugal, on his show ‘Curry for<br />
Breakfast’ to introduce the event to audiences<br />
and he was very impressed with the high<br />
standard of performances when he attended<br />
the SABS Saturday Show.<br />
The international contest attracted choruses<br />
and quartets from England, Ireland and Holland<br />
and the chorus contest was a closely<br />
fought event, with two English ladies’ choruses,<br />
Heartbeat from Stockport and Cheshire<br />
Chord Company from Warrington, just 3<br />
points apart; Heartbeat were crowned the<br />
new SABS International Champions, with<br />
the silver medal going to Cheshire Chord<br />
Company and the bronze to Mixed-Q from<br />
Holland.<br />
In association with <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida International Radio and www.angloINFO.com<br />
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Delegates were based in the Sunset Beach<br />
Club Hotel and the Torrequebrada Hotel, with<br />
shows and contests taking place in the Sala<br />
Fortuna at the Torrequebrada Hotel, where<br />
SABS also held its first-ever international<br />
quartet and chorus contests. Spangles Chorus,<br />
Viva and Fénix Quartets from Los Alcázares,<br />
and Torrevieja Harmonisers, FourMidables<br />
and The Velvetones from Torrevieja all<br />
The international quartet contest saw some<br />
phenomenal performances for what is essentially<br />
an amateur hobby, with Echo Quartet<br />
from Manchester becoming SABS International<br />
Champions, closely followed by Miss-<br />
Demeanour with silver and The Mix winning<br />
bronze on their first outing as a quartet.<br />
It was a bumper harvest for SABS members<br />
from Madrid, with ‘Barberidad’ Men’s Chorus<br />
scooping the SABS Chorus Champion title<br />
and ‘Investigators’ Men’s Quartet winning the<br />
SABS Quartet Champion title for the second<br />
time since 2010.‘Bella A Cappella’, mixed<br />
chorus from Portugal, won the silver medal<br />
and ‘Southern Sound’, mixed chorus from<br />
Fuengirola, won the bronze medal.<br />
The next SABS Annual Convention is<br />
scheduled for Alicante from 11-14 April 2013<br />
and the national and international contests<br />
will be held in the prestigious new Auditorio<br />
de la Diputación. If you are interested in<br />
attending this event or would like to know<br />
more about SABS, you can find information<br />
on www.sabs.es or email lyn@sabs.es or<br />
gail@sabs.es<br />
Photographer:<br />
Vincent de Vries Photography, Málaga<br />
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