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Naked Voice Records and Sweet Adelines International today announced that the 2011 International Quartet and Chorus Competition audio recordings are now available for the first time on the iTunes Store®. Starting today, the18-volume set, featuring 37 quartets and 32 choruses on 224 tracks, is available for purchase and download on iTunes® worldwide as either albums or individual songs. Fans get the opportunity to listen to the competition, in contestant order, and experience hearing the best artists in the world of this incredibly challenging and exciting uniquely American artform.
Naked Voice Records boasts the world's largest digital catalog of a cappella music, featuring over six thousand songs from over 400 artists, including Vocal Spectrum, The Westminster Chorus, ACOUSTIX, The Vocal Majority, and The Alley Cats, Fans can purchase songs and albums and listen to them on their Macs, PCs, iPods, iPhone™, Apple TV®, and many other music players. Single albums are available for purchase and download, and individual songs are available for $0.99 each.
A complete list of artists and tracks for the 2011 Sweet Adelines International Quartet and Chorus Competition audio recordings is available at nakedvoicerecords.com.
"We love Sweet Adelines International and are honored and thrilled to bring the 2011 International Competition audio to the world," said Stephen Wilde, Chief Creative Officer of Naked Voice Records. "These live audio recordings represent the best the barbershop world has to offer."
Carol Schwartz, Director of Music Services for Sweet Adelines International, added, "We are very excited about this opportunity to share our joy in harmonizing the world. We encourage everyone to access nakedvoicerecords.com to find recordings of your favorite Sweet Adelines quartets and choruses, as well as all types of barbershop harmony."
The 2011 International Competition audio features all 6 contest songs from the newly crowned 2011 Queens Of Harmony, "Martini", and all 5 contest songs from the 2011 International Chorus Champion, "Melodeers."
About Sweet Adelines International: Sweet Adelines International is a worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education, competition and performance. The organization is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma where it was founded in 1945. This nonprofit music education association is one of the world's largest singing organizations for women encompassing more than 23,000 members, 1,000 registered quartets and 500 choruses located in most of the fifty United States, Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, The Netherlands and Wales. In 2009, Sweet Adelines International set a Guinness World Record for Largest Singing Lesson. The lesson involved 6,651 participants and was achieved during Sweet Adelines International's 63rd Annual Convention and Competition at the Sommet Center in Nashville, Tenn. on October 24, 2009. www.sweetadelineintl.org
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