Southeast Light Quartet

Carol lives in Walpole, MA with her husband Fred (see his bio below) and has her degree in Music Education from UMass Boston. She has been singing duets with Fred for weddings and at church and is delighted to expand this experience to our quartet. Not only does she have a fabulous voice but she is the prettiest of the four. Carol has worked for 25 years as an early childhood music specialist. She has a CD of her original children's songs called "Washing Machine".

 

Carol is an active participant in communitity theatre, playing such roles as the undertaker's wife in Oliver, Mrs. Darling in Peter Pan, Mrs. Paroo in the Music Man and Mrs Potts in Beauty and the Beast. Carol adds lots of performance experience to Southeast Light and is particularly fond of telling audiences jokes with an Irish brogue ... when she can get away with it!

 

Fred lives in Walpole, MA with his wife Carol (see her bio above) and joined the Walpole MA, BHS Chapter in 1970, from an ad his father Bill saw in a newspaper. The next week he dragged his father to the Walpole Chapter. That experience turned into a wonderful pastime for life. His first quartet was Three Dads and a Lad, with Fred singing tenor and Bill singing baritone. While getting his music education degree at the University of Lowell, Fred became the director of the Canton, MA Chapter. With Fred singing lead in The Norfolk County Music Company, the group captured second place at the Northeastern District contest in 1981. He also sang lead with Saturday Night Review, a popular show quartet during the mid 80's.  Fred's next quartet was with his son David and they named the group, Generations. David sang lead and this time Fred sang baritone and the 3rd generation was Bob Beaver, a contemporary of Bill and the bass of Three Dads and Lad 30 years prior.  When circumstances forced the quartet to disband, their swan song was Val Hicks', "Singing Here With Dad", a memory Fred will cherish for the rest of his life. As Fred's latest accomplishment he sang tenor with Jones & Co when they won the 2007 Patriot Division Quartet Championship.

 

With the addition of Brad Spencer to the quartet in March 2008, Fred moved up to sing lead again. Now that Brad has moved back to an all male competing quartet, Fred is back singing baritone again with Southeast Light, but get a load of this....he also sings tenor with the 2009 Division Seniors Quartet Champion X-Men.  Boy, is he talented (or is that confused)?. The only part left that he hasn't sung yet is bass, but that will have to be in another lifetime he says. :-)

 

Fred's current barbershop activities include tenor section leader, chorus member qualifying coach, Assistant Director and Music VP with the Providence, RI chorus, NBC (2008 NED Chorus Champions) (http://singnbc.com), Chorus Director of the Harmony Heritage Chorus of Harmony Incorporated and is the co-webmaster for the Northeastern District (NED) of the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) and says it's a good thing his wife is involved in barbershop also, or else......?   

 

Tony lives in Whitman, MA with his lovely wife Elaine and has been singing barbershop bass for 32 years in 3 choruses and 4 other award winning quartets including the retired top ten district quartet Yankee Ingenuity. Tony also sings baritone for the first time in his life with the 2009 Division Seniors Quartet Champion X-Men.  He has been a Music VP and Bass Section Leader in his last two BHS chapters, was an Area Counselor and is currently the Bass Section Leader and chorus member qualifying coach for the Providence, RI chapter NBC Chorus and also earned his Bachelor of Harmony award several years ago.

 

Tony is retired now and when not boating in the summertime on "Sea Song", has nothing better to do than sing and practice barbershop all day ..... other than finish the home projects that Elaine says have waited long enough for the retired years to complete!  Everyone should have priorities, you know.