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Mark your calendar now, to reserve the day to enjoy a great barbershop event. We are proud to announce plans for our annual spring show for 2008. The featured guest entertainment will be the Ditchfield Family Singers. These seven members of the Ditchfield family, present a wide variety of a capella music, including the My Three Sons quartet, who annually compete for Sunshine District Quartet dominance.

The Florida Suncoast Chorus will entertain with some of the great barbershop classics. We'll also feature quartets from our chapter, one of which is ranked in Florida's top 10. Whether you plan to attend the afternoon or evening performance, you'll be humming along with the mix of barbershop favorites and broadway chart busters!

Ditchfield Family Singers

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  The Ditchfields are truly all members of one family (not just a singing group that uses a family name). The Ditchfield Family Singers have become widely acclaimed throughout the state of Florida, and in many other parts of the country, for their close harmony acappella performances and the variety of their musical presentations.

Led by parents Stephen and Bernice, the family includes son, Nathanael and his wife Regina, daughter Stephanie, teen-aged sons Michael and David, and three little grandsons: Andrew, Christopher and last, but not least, Joshua.

Over the past fourteen years, The Ditchfield Family has provided countless audiences with unforgettable entertainment experiences, singing the popular music of the '30's, '40's, and '50's, show stoppers from Broadway,  and the best loved traditional and inspirational standards of our time. Sarasota Opera House audiences have been delighted with their annual Christmas concerts, which have become a special seasonal tradition, including Victorian-costumed caroling and holiday favorites.   Above all, The Ditchfields enjoy and appreciate being a family - singing together, praying together, staying together, and having a lot of fun building happy memories for their ever-widening audiences and themselves along the way.  Nobody could have guessed that back at the beginning of World War II, in Salzburg, Austria, a close-knit family seeking its freedom from the villainous Adolf Hitler and Nazi dictatorship would, years later, have a unique effect in Sarasota, Florida.

That Austrian family was destined to become the world-famous Von Trapp Family Singers who unknowingly became the role model for a young American family we now know as "The Ditchfield Family Singers."   Formation of this versatile Florida family ensemble was inspired by the Von Trapp’s best-loved movie and Broadway show, The Sound of Music. It's not surprising that The Ditchfield Family Singers are often referred to as Florida's version of The Von Trapps.

My Three Sons

My Three Sons photo

You want Barbershop? The men of the Ditchfield Family Singers give it to you. Stephen Ditchfield and his three sons, Nathanael, Michael, and David, were all singing together as a part of the well-known Ditchfield Family Singers when they discovered their potential as a quartet.

As one of the Barbershop Harmony Society’s most unique quartets, My Three Sons are known across the country for their rich, full blended sound and outstanding entertainment presentations.

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The James B White Performing Arts Theater in Clearwater, FL (see below for address and map) is an intimate theater, of less than 700 seats; every seat is a good seat.

The Florida Suncoast Chorus

The Florida Suncoast Chorus has a stellar history. It has sung in International Competition six times, and has placed as high as eighth in the world. Now with the union of members from the Palm Harbor chorus, we're more excited than ever to present a top notch entertainment experience


Location

James B White Performing Arts Theater
2750 Haines Bayshore Road
Clearwater, FL

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