The 2010 Novice Contest was held on March 27, 2010.

Click here for the results.

Dear Fellow Barbershopper:

The Rahway Valley Jerseyaires sponsored the 49th Annual Novice Quartet Contest on Saturday evening, March 27, 2010.

Where: The Roosevelt Elementary School, 811 St. Georges Ave. (Rt. 27) & Stanton St., Rahway, NJ (same as last year)
When: Starting at 7:30 PM

To qualify as a ‘Novice Quartet’ for this contest "No more than two members of a Novice quartet may have competed in ANY quartet that qualified to sing at a District-level (fall) contest and only one of those two men may have advanced to or sung at the International level, whether by the route of Pre-Lims or District-level contests". Any of your Chapter quartets, which fall within the definition of a ‘novice quartet’ are invited to attend and ring a chord for our panel of Judges and for the enjoyment of our audience. We also welcome your fellow Chapter members and their families to this contest.

Admission is 'Free' to the public and we'd like to have a large audience to cheer on these novice quartets. We hope to have up to fifteen (15) quartets competing for the top spot in front of a panel of a 'certified' judges and a Contest Administrator who will tabulate a score sheet for our audience and competing quartets. So come out and judge for yourself and see if you can pick the winning quartets.

As has been our tradition and commencing with our 38^th Novice Contest, the winning quartet will also be awarded the Annual Ben Ackermann Memorial Trophy, which is then passed along to each year’s subsequent winners.

Each quartet will sing two songs and the top three placing quartets are also awarded Contest Medals for their performance.

No tickets are necessary so we hope you will just plan to show up and have a great time.

For Entry Forms, click here or call me!!

In Harmony,

Clint Crane, Rahway Valley Novice Quartet Contest Coordinator
Tel: 908-276-0900

Click here to register for this event.