After performing “Almost There” and “Back in the Old Routine” during the small barbershop chorus competition between 10 a cappella groups from four states, members of Shades of Harmony gathered in the ballroom of a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, hotel on April 7.
“Wouldn’t it be great if we got third place?” the group’s membership chair, Karen Bonin, recalled asking as the singers awaited results of the Region 19 competition of Sweet Adelines International. “It wasn’t us. Maybe we’ll win second place. It wasn’t us.
“When they announced that we won, all of us leapt out of our seats and screamed,” she recounted of the first-place win. “I lost my voice.”…