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SING: L’Attitude Quartet, made up of Carolyn Duggan, Toni Griffin, Virginia Humphrey-Taylor and Patrice Driver, won the Sweet Adelines New Zealand Quartet Competition in Dunedin recently.
A cappella group Home & Leisure Show playhouse will head to Vegas competition and charity auction AFTER WINNING the national championships, a cappella group L’Attitude Quartet is bound for Las Vegas. The group finished first at the Sweet Adelines New Zealand Quartet Competition in Dunedin recently. It is made up of members from throughout the country, including two from Christchurch. Carolyn Duggan, L’Attitude Quartet’s tenor, and Virginia Humphrey-Taylor, who sings the bass, both belong to the Christchurch City Chorus.
The group’s other members are Patrice Driver, baritone, of the Nelson Bays Harmony Chorus, and Toni Griffin, lead singer, from the Bella A Cappella Chrous in Keri Keri. While getting together is a challenge, the women have achieved success through a passion for singing, dedication to independent vocal work and monthly weekend rehearsals. L’Attitude Quartet will represent New Zealand at the International Sweet Adeline Quartet Competition in Las Vegas in October.
THE STAR Home & Leisure Show will feature a novel fundraising idea this year. Three teams will vie to build the most impressive and creative children’s playhouse, which will then be auctioned at the show on July 1. All funds raised at the auction will go to support local charities Birthright Canterbury and Tenants Protection Association Christchurch. Concept designs for the playhouses will be shared in The Star on Thursday. The teams will be vying for the
‘best architectural playhouse’ award, judged by a panel of experts, and the ‘people’s choice’ and ‘kid’s choice’ awards, voted for by visitors to the Home & Leisure Show. Check out Thursday’s The Star to find out more about the three building teams, concept designs, and the judging panel. •You can follow the Playhouse Challenge on Facebook at https://www. facebook.com/ 2017PlayhouseChallenge/.
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