MixTape Quartet

Proof of how awesome the JAD Top Gun crew was last weekend 😎😎😎😎 And a fun super zoom of us 🤣

We had an impactful weekend at the top gun! We had 5 incredible coaching sessions with Clay Hine, Jordan Travis, Steve Tramack, Dave McEachern and Tony Colosimo. What an amazing way to kick off the year! A huge thank you to everyone involved - see you in April 🤩🫶🏼💜

Let’s take a look back at our first year as a quartet! It’s been a wonderful whirlwind and it keeps getting better. Happy New Year’s Eve and here’s to 2024 🥂

January - Brian, Jenni and Cy hold auditions and bring on Dayve - making us complete 💜💜💜💜

February - logo and website designed by Jenni 💻

March - With our awesome, newly extended family in Anna, Chuck, Dustin and Tyler by our sides, we traveled to South Carolina to compete and QUALIFY for the 2023 International Convention AND celebrated Jenni’s birthday 🎂

April - launched our merch at customquartetstuff.com 👕

May - First gig at Alliance Chorus AND were in The Harmonizer promoting the Louisville Convention 🐎

June - Tag team coaching session with Evan and Nate AND celebrated Dayve’s birthday! 🎉

July - Competed at Barbershop Harmony Society’s 2023 International Convention in Louisville AND celebrated Cy’s birthday with bourbon and donuts 🥃 🍩

August - Started learning our first custom arrangement! 🕺

September - Celebrated Brian’s birthday 🥳

October - Competed and scored highest becoming 2023 Grand Champion Quartet in our district, Johnny Appleseed 😁 🏆

November - Recorded our first song and music video 🎤 🎥

December - Debuted our song and music video; Sugar and Booze 🍪 🍺

Happy holidays! We look forward to what is in store for us in 2024 🎄🤩♥️

“Heeeeeeey!” Our video drops tomorrow!!!!

Our vivacious Queen Dayve has a very fun s**t section in our upcoming holiday song! We will post the video on Friday!

Cy Wood is all smiles for our first music video dropping this week! 🤩

Pssssst….our first music video will be posted this week! You excited?! We are!!!!

(We know it’s Monday but…..)

For Giving Tuesday, we would be so thankful if you thought about supporting MixTape! We have big plans - new music, coaching, traveling to Cleveland in July.

How you can support:
👕Buy our merch (www.mixtapequartet.com/shop)
🎤Book us for a show
🤑Give us your money via venmo (see comments for info)

Best of luck to all competitors at Sweet Adelines International - special shout out to Dayve L. Gabbard and Scioto Valley Chorus 🤗🤩♥️

Holy smokes!!!!! We won the whole dang thing 🤩 With an 81.6 score we took home the JAD (Open) Mixed Trophy as well and the JAD District Champions!

The trophy in the middle is the long standing district champion trophy prior to the Everyone in Harmony initiative. A giant thank you to Long Shot quartet for giving us this historic JADAQC trophy 🏆 and great friends - love you guys!

Congratulations to all who competed - what a stacked contest. Now let’s go sing some tags and enjoy the festivities ❤️

Oh, hi there! We’ve been so excited about district that we totally forgot to share all about it. We are at the JAD Fall Convention and made it to Finals singing 4th. 🤩 congratulations to all quartets and choruses - it’s been a blast.

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CAR/JAD Finals

MT: Mixed Nuts
1. ICON
2. Hot Metal
3. Mom's Favorite
4. MixTape 📼
5. Long Shot
6. Exhibit A
7. Rerouted
8. FreshF
9. Bourbonaires
10. Burning River Boys
11. Up All Night
12. Raise the Roof

It is Brian’s birthday today! We looooove Brian. He is funny, kind, and of course talented. To help celebrate, we have compiled some of our favorite “Brian quotes”. Swipe to view them all 🤩

Do you have a fun Brian quote or fun memory to share?

Have a great Labor Day!

We finally got together last night since Louisville! A month is too long! We started a brand new chart that we are working on and will share in the coming months. We are also working on songs for District in October. So much fun stuff.

We had the awesome opportunity to record a song for the Kicking Back to Barbershop 4 album! Want to back the Kickstarter? Click into the original post for more info! This is a wonderful opportunity to help barbershoppers from around the world afford to come to BHS International conventions ♥️ thank you Recording With Josh for thinking of us!

Artwork of KBTB4 by Rebecca Adams!

Few things about KBTB4:

There's still time left to back the project on the kickstarter. For those of you who are Jefe Maximos/Jefeist of Maximos, check your email for a message from me. If you're a sponsor and haven't selected a slot yet, don't worry, I'm going through the list, it's just taking a bit more time than anticipated.

Thank you to Drew and Kris Hawkins Wheaton for being amazing hosts and letting me use their space and home to record the album. Thank you to the quartets who signed on, you are the sound of Kicking Back To Barbershop. They're microphones, not magic wands - all of your work behind the scenes is a slice of sound that is KBTB, and what goes to the kiddos of 2024's NextGen quartets.

Lastly I want to thank my partner, Rebecca Devereaux for capturing video and editing all the teasers. You've always supported me and this project. You've seen every emotion leading up to the kickstarter, the self doubt, the happiness, and the stress. You are an amazing person and everyone who knows you knows it too.

Happiest of birthdays to our wonderful baritone
Cy brings so much joy and fun to our quartet and we are excited we get to celebrate with him in Louisville today.

To help celebrate, please share pictures of your cats, your enneagram numbers, or a memory with Cy 😍

Thank you for all the love and support! We had a blast ♥️ Congrats to all who progressed to semi-finals. See you next year….until then…let’s keep the whole world singing.

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Warmed up and ready to go! See us soon!!!!! #17