Barbershop Harmony Quartet Still CrazY

In spite of the distance between the Dutch singers and our English bass (hooray for Ryan Air), we had some very memorable sing-outs with Roger. As was the case in Shrewbury. As soon as the Dutchies arrived in Shrewsbury, they decided that they were ready to get baptised with British Ale. Since the local pub had no license to provide life music, the quartet stepped outside to bust some chords.

Soon, a pretty lady-cyclist rounded the corner, thought she heard angels sings for her, looked surprised to her left, saw us and dived with astonishing grace over a concrete flower-container. Afterwards, we were pleased to discover that the flower container was unhurt and that there was no damage.

Although we didn't know, for the future hadn't shown us her secrets, some visionary guy (most probably a woman) pictured our former and current Bass in Shrewsbury. Very appropriate, our current bass appears to linger in the background, for then he was the bass of the multiple gold Dutch medallists Radio Times. Only some 14 months later, he decided to accompany Still CrazY to the Dutch Competition in 2006 (how foolish).

And there 's a very rewarding performance: our kind, patient soft-hearted Roger had been annoyed by someone in the audience for quite some time and was on the edge of deciding to harass this person, as violently as possible. You still can tell by the face of our Lead Martien, that he knows what's going on and thinks: "oh no, not now, we had such a nice evening", while our bari-singer Eugène gets frightened and is worried about the consequences of this situation. Tenor Michiel seems to be stoned as ever, and thinks about roses, tender love and paradise.

Rogers' livingroom-wide mirror had survived the moving from Brunssum (the Netherlands) to Shrewsbury and gave us time and time again painfully honest feedback on our performances.

Yes,friends, friends, lots of singing friends visited Roger's home in Shrewsbury. All Dutchies together at John Lennon Airport. By Roger, hope to see you soon! We had a swell weekend!

Our very first competition, Still CrazY with Roger Hare as our bass, performed Somewhere Overweight People and What 'll I Do. We were surprised to receive 799 points and the "Riet Kosterman"-Trophy. The latter one is an award for the most promising quartet or chorus from a presentation point of view. And what honour could we have more, then being the very first to receive that award!

After this and all the publicity, Roger obviously tried to disappear from this world, more specific, from our quartet..., leaving this very emotional note for us (CAUTION, may be disturbing to some individuals!).
He managed to escape to Bosnia, was sometimes seen in England and Germany, and there were even rumours about Afghanistan.
Most recently new traces were found pointing to Germany, when an astonishing female bass was presented to the crowd. Here name seems to be Rogina, "ein wahres Resonanz-Wunder"....

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