Good Morning BHA: Recent Episodes
Ash Schofield and Richard Reeve
Episode 73 - BHA 2025 Canberra Festival Wrap Up feat. Andrew Milner and Raelea Schofield-Murphy by Ash Schofield and Richard Reeve
Episode 72 - Farewell to a BHA legend - Derek Cosburn by Ash Schofield and Richard Reeve
Episode 71 - Siva, Emma and Music Director Rob Sequeria of Vox Canvas discuss current feelings and expectations about their impending trip to BHS International in Denver.
Richard chats to Mike Bagby about his life in Barbershop and gets an insight from Gary Steinkamp about experiencing Midtown's Spider-Pig from the judging pit.
Richard Reeve is let loose in Louisville at the Barbershop Harmony Society's International Convention!
We chat to Sweet Adelines Australia's most recent Champion MD and all around inspiring, Lea Baker
The Sweet Adelines Region 34 convention was on down the road from Richard so he went along and did his thing!
Ash has a yarn with 4 top blokes, Ian, Adrian, Dan and Richard, who happen to be 2005, 2009, 2011 BHA quartet champs, 2009, 2011 and 2012 BHS international representatives, Alliance!
A series of short chats with members of Boulevard Harmony as they reflect on their experience in a chorus that took a less traditional approach to Hobart 2022
A Queenslander goes to Perth to sit next to a West Australian to talk to a Tasmanian who lived in Queensland for a while but who now lives in Canada and is a BHS Music Judge and MD of both Toronto Northern Lights and Grand Harmony Chorus, Andrew Carolan.
We're together again! Richard and Ash wrap up an awesome Festival over dinner, a walk through Hobart and a drive to the airport. Featuring interviews and the sounds of barbershop being back baby!!!
Richard has a late night, somewhat impromptu but wonderfully insightful chat with members of Gotham Chorus
Richard has has a great chat to David McEachern about his personal journey leading up to his input into some of the more iconic BHS contest performances we've ever seen.
Part 1 of 3! BHS International is back and Richard Reeve has got the mic out and up in barbershoppers' faces! Hear what Marty Monson, Erin Harris, Chad Bennett, Rick Taylor and 2022 Varsity Champs, The Clementones, have to say about it.
Part 2 of Richard Reeve's Roving Reporting across the Sunshine Region's Barbershop Season!
Richard Reeve chats to Qld barbershoppers across two weekends of barbershop events. Part 1 takes place during Vocalescence's continually delayed show weekend!
Richard's flying solo and touring a wall of memories with BHA life member and 2018 BHA Medal Recipient, Mel McMichael
Richard catches up with BHA Champ Quartet Blindside to see what's the tea, over some tea.
Stay to the end for a special Blindside X Boston Common mashup
We have a quick chat to BHA Quartet Medalist, BHA Chorus Champion, Festival Statesmen Director and "other music legend", Jono Bligh
We talk to BHS International Chorus Medalist, Voices In Harmony Assistant Director, BHA Quartet Medalist, Vox Canvas Director, AGBJ Singing Judge, one of our most goodest buddies, and Mr "One more tag, it's a quick one (it was not a quick one)", Rob Sequeira!
We get the wonderful chance to attempt an almost serious chat with BHS International Quartet Champion, Coach, Judge and Barbershop comedy legend, Rick LaRosa.
It's our 50th episode! And what better day to commemorate that, than on Barbershop Quartet Day! What is Barbershop Quartet Day? Well we talk about exactly that, as well as sharing barbershop stories from around the world! This is the audio from our Facebook Live event.
We chat to Quartet medalist, Chorus medalist, International Representative, Director, Arranger and Sweet Adelines legend, Glenda Lloyd about all manner of things, including our "love" for Zoom "rehearsals"...
Richard chats to The Idea of North's Nick Begbie about his start in music, lessons learned along the way, and of course his barbershop days with Four To The Bar
Richard and Ash have a little too much fun as they catch up and reminisce with Director, Coach, International Chorus Champion, Vocal Majority Section Leader, Barbershop Harmony Society Singing Category judge, proud Texan and great friend Eddie Martinez
We talk to Barbershop Harmony Australia Membership VP, Paul Adams about BHA's plans for 2020 and beyond!
Everything is cancelled! Or is it? Richard and Ash discuss the state of the world and how barbershoppers are dealing with it, with some quality insight from very good friend of the show, Jen Howson.
We chat to AGBJ Music Judge, accomplished arranger, quartetter, bass singer, meme tshirt wearer and MD of The Baden Street Singers, Nick Schurmann!
Richard was lucky enough to steal an incredible amount of time with the one and only, Rob Mance! Rob answers YOUR questions in this information overload of an interview.
Richard and Ash take the opportunity during a break at Harmony Academy talk to Steve Scott and find out as much as possible about this mysterious Vocal Pedagogy (among many other things) dude!
History of BHA - Daniel Millgate As part of Richard's History of Barbershop classes at Harmony Academy, one of the highlights is being able to interview someone who has a lot of barbershop history, such as 4 time BHA Quartet Gold Medalist, International Quartet Representative and current BHA President, Dan Millgate.
We recap the event that was the 2019 Barbershop Harmony Festival in Hobart before chatting to some people around Harmony Academy
Richard is in Christchurch, NZ judging BHNZ's national contests and got to catch up with international guest quartet, 2018 BHS Quartet Champ, After Hours.
Richard and Ash were both in Adelaide for Kieran O'Dea's wedding to the lovely Kirsten and couldn't pass up the opportunity to talk to Director, Jonathan Bligh, and John Khammash of Festival Statesmen Chorus, your 2018 Barbershop Harmony Australia Chorus champions
The Newfangled Four are in Australia and Ash got to sit down with them and talk about their trip, the quartet and a little bit about the Westminster Chorus
We get to do some serious debriefing about BHSSLC with Barbershop Harmony Society Singing Category Judge, 2007 Collegiate Quartet Champ, Lead of two time Top Ten quartet Da Capo, Associate director of The Alexandria Harmonizers, and founder of Chorall: Vocal Resources for ALL Voices, Tony Colosimo
Join Ash and his quartet, The Electric Barbercats, during their time at the Barbershop Harmony International Convention in Salt Lake City to get a feel for what it might be like being a competing quartet at the big show.
Richard and Ash get excited about the upcoming Barbershop Harmony Society International Convention in Salt Lake City and run through some of their predictions and highlights before getting into a bit of a discussion about the proposal put forward by BHS regarding how contest may look in the future...
Richard and Ash delve into what's different about Parkside Harmony with their Artistic Director, multiple International Chorus Gold Medalist (Westminster and Masters of Harmony) Lead of current 3rd Place International Quartet Bronze Medalist, Throwback and Lead of 2008 International Quartet Champ, OC Times, Sean Devine.
Richard and Ash get chatting to Nicholas DiLorenzo from the Let's Talk Barbershop podcast. Nick wanted to know more about BHA and what goes on down here, and we were more than happy to talk about ourselves! Go and listen to Nick's podcast, he has great interviews with some big names and is really getting into the nitty gritty in the lead up the the 2019 BHS International Competition in Salt Lake City
Richard is flying solo and makes his way into an Obsession rehearsal to talk to Sweet Adelines Region 34's 3rd Place and International Wildcard qualifying quartet about who they are, how they got here and where they're heading.
Richard and Ash are in sunny Queensland for the Sunshine Region Convention and while there got to chat to 2 time BHA Quartet Gold Medalist and BHA Marketing VP, The Daniel Beckitt! This episode also includes our brand new theme song, arranged by Nick Schurmann, edited by Ben Catt, lyrics edited by Ben Catt and Ash Schofield, recorded by Ben Catt and Ash Schofield, mixed by Ben Catt.
Ash sits down with AGBJ Music Judge, BHA Education Faculty Member, BHA Quartet Bronze Medalist, 3 Time BHA Youth Quartet Champion, BHA Collegiate Quartet International Representative, Adelaide Vocal Union Director and fellow burger enthusiast, Kieran O'Dea!
Richard and Ash discuss the upcoming BHA Regionals before getting into what it's like to be an MD of a chorus.
Ash was lucky enough to get Dan Millgate, Ian Mulholland and Mike Donnelly, the current and two previous BHA Presidents respectively, around the same table to hear some stories and more!
Merry Christmas!! We're back after a bit of an unintentional break! We get chatting about some of the goings on around the barbershop world and what to do leading into a new year.
We get to hear about some of the history of BHA from legend Ian Mulholland... We could list all his accomplishments here but there is only so much space on the internet...
What better use of the bus trip from Harmony Academy than to record a podcast wrapping up an historic convention!
We talk to BHA legend Derek Cosburn, who, among other things, was the Lead of the 1991 BHA Quartet Gold Medalist Quartet, The Sentimentals, our first champs!
Richard Reeve flying solo for a one on one with International Champion Chorus Director, BHS Singing Judge and incredibly nice guy, Jordan Travis from Toronno!
We go through the results from Sweet Adelines Region 34 contest, touch on the Barbershop Harmony Society's latest Everyone In Harmony announcement and preview the BHS International Contest minutes before it starts! (It's well and truly over now of course, because I'm slow at uploading our recordings...)
Episode 16 - Tasmanian Regional Ash is on his own for this one... is that "woohoo" I hear you say? C'mon now, Reeve isn't all that bad... We have chats with our judges, Alex Morris and Sarah Bradley, BHA VP Membership Paul Adams, and the Forefathers quartet!
Episode 15 We happened to be at the same BHA Regional (Ash judging, Richard competing and mastering ceremonies) so why not get the recorder out and chat to some fine folk! We chat to BHA Education Faculty members Jen Howson and Rob Sequeira about nothing close to education, Upgrade's new baritone Alex Jaime about being Upgrade's new baritone, incredibly keen barbershopper Damian Jones about being an incredibly keen barbershopper and you get an insight into what it's like being in a giant Richard Reeve selfie.
We talk musical theatre and the benefits it can have on your barbershop performance and vice versa, we also discuss some recent happenings around a chorus that was awarded a zero in contest and we round out with some local quartet updates.
We chat to David Reid from Sound Connection about what they might be up to this year and beyond.
Part 4, and the final part, of our Harbour Harmony College Series! We've got the legendary Jim Henry, HC Dean and Assistant Dean Andrew Howson and Dan Beckitt, BHA President Ian Mulholland and we round it all out with some very wise words from MUS judge and big time arranger Kevin Keller.
Episode 11 - The Guyton Files 2 Time BHS International Quartet Gold Medalist, Brandon Guyton, gives us all the stories!
We continue our Harmony College Interviews starting with a civilian (non barbershopper) Amanda who came to HC to learn! We also chat to 2 time Internationial Quartet Champ, Fred Farrell before getting in depth with 2013 BHA Quartet 3rd Place Bronze Medalist, Matthew Lykos.
The first installment of our Harmony College Interview Series. This episode we talk to 7 time SAI Region 34 Quartet Champ Bec Hewitt, 2 time BHS International Quartet Champ Mike Slamka, 2017 BHA Quartet 4th Place Bronze Medalist Michael Hicks and 2013 BHA Quartet 3rd Place Bronze Medalist and 2017 BHA Silver Medal Chorus Director Kieran O'Dea.
Hitting record while driving across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on our way to 3 days of Harmony Prison, we recap Harbour Harmony, the 2017 Pan Pacific Convention
This episode we go through some of our highlights from BHS International 2017 through the sparkly lens of the Performance category
MoH Too Darn Hot youtu.be/2Jtxiq4gL_M
TNL Smile Medley youtu.be/E4dYpUmPk7E
Parkside Harmony Devil And The Deep Blue Sea youtu.be/7U9xsLFKUYM
Signature Dance With My Father youtu.be/B6FwopHVll8
NF4 Cottage For Sale youtu.be/sQBHFsmRBl4
Nf4 Supercal... youtu.be/7BH2CqE5mNQ
After Hours Butter Outta Cream youtu.be/fmE5dsP7z_k
Throwback He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother youtu.be/GD-SkfuWi4
Category 4 Let's Call The Whole Thing Off youtu.be/Rf1vCfEo1b4
Not mentioned in the podcast but we shoulda...
Central Standard Proud Of Your Boy youtu.be/Tw9xpft0xqU
After Hours The Next Ten Minutes youtu.be/gQ_LnrywCS0
Episode 6 We discuss ideas around the best and not so best ways to expose people to Barbershop. High Altitude Harmony's YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UChgL4JOprGWAX1xS6Bwq0GA Baby On Board (The Simpsons) https://youtu.be/A_21R5wVSpc Max Q - Here's To The Losers https://youtu.be/WkWLEODo2e0 The Newfangled Four - Bananaphone https://youtu.be/ESWi63VIAjc
This episode is all about wandering around the international convention with a mic and seeing what we got. Turns out we got a couple of interviews, a bunch of singing from Sing With The Champs (ok, mostly Vocal Spectrum) and some of the thoughts about what was happening as the happenings were happening. We hope this gives you some sense of the madness that is a BHS International.
We chat more about quartetting while trying to not get too excited about heading to International in Vegas!!
In Part 1 we get stuck into quartet life, in particular, discussion around forming a quartet, goals, managing expectations, preparation... and we answer some our listeners questions!
Our 2nd episode! We recap the SAI Region 34 competition and get deeper into some Performance category discussion.
In this first episode Ash and Richard discuss the BHA National and BHS International qualifying lists before getting into some advice for our fellow performers.