If you wanna feel those good vibrations comin’ from the joy that His love will bring, get in touch with God.

Yep, we’re learning a new song. Turn Your Radio On is a peppy gospel song that Kelly brought in. He knows it pretty well, so Brian and Chris and I are trying to catch up. It’s 72 measures, so it’s not too bad.

When I need to get up to speed quick on a song, I like to notate the sheet music on my computer. Then I can selectively play any or all of the four voice parts and rehearse it on my own time without the other guys around. I use Print Music for notation; it works very nicely for barbershop arrangements. Brian then takes the notated document and creates MP3s to help him rehearse. You know, we’re an old fashioned quartet…I’m sure this is how they did it 50 years ago.

We plan to debut the song at the Meyer Theatre on Feb 20 when we perform at the Allouez Village Band’s monthly concert.

It was only a matter of time before our webmaster (also our bari) added a new dimension…blogging…cool! I hope we can share some interesting things that might give you a “insider’s view” about our quartet. We have an absolute blast singing together and have had some pretty out of the ordinary things happen when we perform. I look forward to sharing some of those with you soon. Way to go Scott!

Chris, Lead of GQ4

Welcome! and Thank You for reading my first GQ4 Blog entry.

First off, I have to say “YOU ARE AWESOME” to Scott for all the neat stuff he does with the web site for GQ4.

Coming soon is the GQ4 Podcast. WooHoo! That should be a LOT of fun.

Once I get it together - I’m the audio recorder - there will be some great harmonies, maybe some clunkers, and probably some pretty funny stuff.

Join us on our journey and hear what happens at a GQ4 rehearsal. Watch for it!

Thanks again!

Take Care and God Bless.

Brian - GQ4 Tenor

We sing the national anthem at a lot of local sporting events. Last Saturday, we performed at the hockey game between St. Norbert College and Hamline University. It was our 32nd anthem performance (since 2000), and our 9th since Kelly joined us in August. We’ve only done St. Norbert College a few times, and it’s always special for a couple of reasons.

First, I work at St. Norbert, so it’s cool to see a bunch of folks that I know. More importantly though, it’s the only game we do where we also sing “O Canada“. At first this seems strange, because neither team is from Canada. However, of the 28 guys on St. Norbert’s hockey team this season, 20 are from Canada!

“O Canada” is a beautiful song, and our arrangement has some great harmonies. This year, we added some French lyrics (in place of a couple of English phrases) and we got a lot of nice comments about it.
St. Norbert College is ranked #2 in the nation right now in Division III hockey, and their games always provide some good, hard-hitting action. I look forward to doing it again soon.

Is this the third millenium or what? We’re gonna use this blog to share our thoughts and happenings. We’ll talk about performances, rehearsals, folks that we sing for, whatever’s on our mind. Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by!