The

Southland Chorus is inviting the public Saturday, May 20

to its annual Spring Show.

A portion

of the money raised will be donated to help Heartspring,

a school for children with severe multiple mental and

physical impairments.

Three

quartets will join the chorus at Sams Auditorium. The

show, titled "Back to the 20th Century," will

feature a variety of tunes by chorus members including

"Sam the Old Accordion Man," "Ten Feet of

the Ground," "Wonderful One," and

"Precious Lord."

The current

Dixie District barbershop champions, Four Voices from

Cleveland Tennessee, will be the evening's featured

quartet. The Four Voices, who also won the 1996

Collegiate championship, will represent the South at the

International Competition in Kansas in July. Four Voices

won the MBNA National Collegiate Quartet in 1996, their

first year together. According to Southland members,

"They are Four Voices with one goal - to be the

best and win it all."

The second

guest quartet will be InDEciSIon?, a relatively new

quartet from the 1999 International Bronze Medal winning

Big Chicken Chorus in Marietta. The quartet has developed

a "uniquely appealing style blended with good humor

and a professional old fashioned barbershop sound,"

according to a spokesman.

New Chips

off the Block will round out the show. According to

Conrad Harris, Southland Chorus member, "They are a

solid group of up-and-comers and will be a big plus to

the show."

The Spring

Show is Southland Chorus' largest annual fund-raiser. The

nonprofit group currently has 25 active members. Within

the chorus are a number of quartets, including the

well-known Harmony Brothers and Covenant Four, who sing

separately at various times.

The chorus

was formed in 1990. According to its literature, it is

not necessary to be able to read music or have a trained

voice to be a member of the chorus. Although most who

have enjoyed being entertained by harmonizing voices of

chorus might believe that only well-trained professionals

make up the chorus, barbershop is "for the average

guy with an average voice, who enjoys singing a song and

would like to know more about harmonizing and improving

his singing talents."

Tickets are

available at both Gold's Gym locations and at the Fayette

Bookshop in Fayetteville. Tickets are $9 for adults and

$7 for students and seniors, and also will be available

at the door for $12 and $10.

For those

who are unable to attend, or for those who would like to

enjoy the harmonizing a second night, the group will host

a guest night Thursday, May 25 at Partners II Pizza in

Peachtree City.

For

information phone Conrad Harris at 770-461-5174.

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