Tenor Molly Plummer competed with Region 19 quartets Star Attraction and multi-medalist quartet RhythmWorks. She is the Financial Coordinator for Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Ricardo Rodriguez, at Cosmeticsurg.net in Lutherville, Maryland. She has been creating choreography for the Pride of Baltimore Chorus since 1999. She lives in Port Deposit, Maryland with her husband Bryan, daughter Lizzy, 4 cats and 2 mini-rex rabbits

Baritone Kim Hudson, formerly the lead for Maxx Factor, comes from a Barbershop family. Her brothers Rich and Jeff currently sing with Wheelhouse quartet. Prior to Maxx Factor, she competed with Region #19 medalist quartet Vanity Fair. She is currently a "domestic engineer," lives in Newark Delaware with her husband Jim and her adorable kids Jimmy and Beth. Lucy the dog is her third child!

Bass Valerie Hadfield-Rasnake, also a barbershop brat, previously competed with Region 19 medalist quartets Vanity Fair and Ritz- Carleton. She works for clothing designer Pery Ellis, designing clothing departments for up-scale retail stores. Val lives in Joppa, Maryland with her husband Bill and beautiful kids Greer and Griffin. Her other "babies" are dachshunds Jet and Bailey.

The newest member of Maxx Factor is Lead Leslie Wodday. Leslie is a queen of Harmony with 2000 Sweet Adeline International Champions Signature Sound. She works in Annapolis with the state legislature, keeping everyone in line!! She lives in Annapolis, Maryland with her BIG DOG TOBY and her little dog maggie

Molly and Valerie are current members of the Sweet Adelines International Medalist chorus, The Pride of Baltimore. Kim and Leslie, both Chapter at Large, have competed internationally with the Pride of Baltimore Chorus. Visit us at www.harmonize.com/MaxxFactor

Maxx Factor

(contact us!) Molly Plummer (tenor), Valerie Hadfield-Rasnake (bass), Leslie Wodday(lead), Kim Hudson (baritone)

2008 Region 19 Quartet Champions

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2008 Region 15 Quartet Champions

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Meet Vogue.

This quartet is Region 19's Fourth Place medalist for 2007.  They represent three choruses:  Two members of Vogue sing together in Harbor City Music Company, one sings with Pride of Baltimore, and two sing with Upper Chesapeake.

Cyd Wentsel (tenor) works for the public school system, combining her lifelong dream of shaping America's future with the exciting, daily physical danger of working with children. Moving from baritone to tenor has been quite a challenge for Cyd, who now finds herself getting lost driving home from work and giggling at lame jokes.

Sharon Ehrisman (lead) is a violin teacher — in other words, she spends her days teaching high-strung kids. When not fiddling around, Sharon is studying the culinary arts, trying desperately to satisfy her longing to be a master chef. Her neighbors know she is "cooking" when they hear sirens and see the smoke rolling out of her kitchen window.

Marianna Gellert (baritone...lead....no,...baritone) is a complete “Home and Garden Channel “addict. So when she’s not playing “Statue of Liberty”...to the birds that have fallen in the yard, or shielding the duck eggs that have been laid in a high risk area,...you may find her brainstorming new and inventive ways to “design on a dime”...yep, she rescues that old lampshade from the dumpster...a little paint, a few feathers, maybe some polka dots... and Voila! It’s a costume accessory!!!!

Jill Bolich (bass) is an office manager for a concrete company that makes manholes (Hey... somebody's gotta do it!) When not skydiving or mountain climbing, Jill loves traveling around the world singing back-up vocals for James Taylor. The rest of her time is spent trying to keep the rest of her quartet members from singing bass (as they have a history of repeatedly switching parts)!

Want us to sing for you?  Contact SwtBASSics@aol.com

Vogue

Network

Network is made up of four experienced women, uh, I mean barbershoppers. In fact, between them, they have over 90 years of barbershop chord-ringing experience! (Of course they all started singing at birth!)

Phyllis Dettmer, laying down the bass, lives in Reisterstown, MD and is an administrative specialist at a hospital in Silver Spring, MD.

Blanche Johnson, filling in the baritone, resides in Columbia, MD and is an independent consultant in the bio-medical marketplace.

Janet Montrie, topping off the tenor, has made her home in Laurel, MD and is employed as a RN clinical supervisor at a hospital in Silver Spring (yes, the same one as Phyllis!).

Liz Sloan, leading the pack, has settled (for the time being) in Perry Hall, MD and works for a government contractor in the computer software field.

Network originally formed in 1992, and harmonized for three years before Liz moved overseas with her military spouse. During their first stint together, Network captured third place regional medals two years running! Network re-formed (unofficially) for fun at a chorus retreat in the summer of 2005. After playing with the idea for a couple of months, they decided to make it official once again!

Network looks forward to making those barbershop chords ring all over again.

With a unique sound and a wide range of songs, the repertoire of ShoreFire runs from turn-of-the-century barbershop to contemporary standards of the 40s, 50s and 60s.

Enjoy the sounds of ShoreFire! For more information or to book ShoreFire, call 410-742-2086 or e-mail hebert@netscape.com.

ShoreFire

FrUSUKa

FrUSUKa Quartet comes from all points of the compass.

To the North (Boston, MA) – Nicole singing Tenor.  To the South (Virginia Beach, VA) – Virginia singing Bari.  To the West (Rockville, MD) – Adele singing Bass.  And to the East – across the great Pond - (Bishops Stortford, UK) - Alison. 

Together less than six months in their current configuration, the quartet competed in Birmingham, England at Symphony Hall this past May finishing 16th out of 24 contestants.