2025 Convention and Competition Great Lakes Harmony Region 17 Sweet Adelines

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Region 17 is pleased to announce our annual webcast for the 2025 Competition! The webcast is free and WEBCAST DONATIONS and WEBCAST SPONSORSHIPS are gratefully accepted so we can continue to offer this to our community. 

Donations are accepted for this webcast by using our Pay Pay or Venmo links found here:

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Quartet Competition Times: Friday, May 9th 2:00 PM

While we would love to have you stay for the whole contest, please allow yourself extra time before and after the listed on stage time of your favorite quartets and choruses so you don't miss them! 
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Emcee starts at 2:00 PM

The quartet contest will have an intermission from approximately 4:15 - 4:55 pm. After the last contestant, there will be a short stretch break followed by a performance from the outgoing champions and the announcement of the awards.

Chorus Competition Times: Saturday, May 10th 12:00 NOON

Emcee starts at 12:00 Noon

The chorus contest will have an intermission from approximately 1:17-2:15 pm. After the last contestant, there will be a short stretch break followed by a performance from the outgoing champions and the announcement of the awards.

QUARTET  CONTEST WEBCAST HOSTS: Lynne Peirce and Sara Clevenger

Lynne Peirce 

Lynne Peirce has been a member of Sweet Adelines International since 1985 and the Barbershop Harmony Society since 2018.  She has enjoyed quartetting nonstop from 1986, and has been a frontline director since 1999.

Lynne is a certified musical director in both Sweet Adelines (2005) and the Barbershop Harmony Society (2002), and is currently the director of her “delightful little River Raisin Chorus”. She is also a performing member of the Huron Valley Harmonizers/BHS, a chorus she took to a District championship in 2003 after becoming one of the Society’s first "non-member” . . . in other words female . . . directors!

A popular chorus and quartet coach, Lynne sang bass in the 1991 and 1993 Region 2 quartet champion but is best known to many for over 20 years of antics as the bass of comedy quartet And while quartetting creates relationships as close as family, there is nothing like singing with real family! Lynne is excited to be the baritone of the new mixed voice Upbeat quartet with fiancé Dave Kemp. Her most thrilling and rewarding quartet experience, however, was winning the 2015 Region 17 quartet championship with Surefire singing with daughter and co-webcaster Sara Clevenger.

On the Regional level, Lynne has served Sweet Adeline Regions 2 and 17 in many different musical and administrative leadership roles.  She is currently enjoying her second term as the Education Coordinator of Region 17.

Lynne lives in Ann Arbor with her darling Cardigan Welsh Corgi, Lily.  She retired in 2012 after 43 years at the University of Michigan Hospitals in the field of organizational development.  Most exciting yet, she is engaged to be married to her sweet Dave later this year.

Sara started singing barbershop harmony at the age of five, dueting the lead part from memory against her bass mother, Lynne. Sara joined Sweet Adelines at the age of 14, soon becoming the youngest quartet medalist in the history of Region 2, singing with her mom in Fandangle quartet.

Sara went on to capture the highest Regional quartet honors in 2015, as the captivating lead of Region 17 quartet champions, Surefire.

Today, Sara sings lead with the two-time Regional Championship quartet, Daybreak. Also a dedicated chorus member, Sara has been a member of the Greater Harmony Chorus since 2015, and is currently the Team Coordinator, Associate Director and Lead Section Leader. Sara coaches regional choruses, quartets and provides private vocal instruction to other members of Region 17.

Sara is a graduate of Fine Arts from the University of Tampa, Florida.  Professionally, Sara is a Partner with Blue River Financial Group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, having led Blue River’s Buyside Investment Banking practice since 2012, where she provides strategic direction and oversight for the firm’s Acquisition Support Investment Banking Group.

Deb Ferenc

Deb Ferenc has been with Sweet Adelines since 1994 and been active in the organization both musically and administratively.  She has been a member of the award-winning, Greater Cleveland Chorus for 29 years and spent 9 years as a dual member of the Scioto Valley Chorus, Region.  She also spent a season as a dual member with Region 17’s Flagship City Show Chorus.  

She has been active singing in several medalist quartets through her 29 years as a Sweet Adeline. 4U, XS and TGIF.  As a Regional Quartet Champion with TGIF in 2007 and 2011, she traveled to the International Stage in Las Vegas, Calgary and Houston. 

In addition to holding every position at the chapter level, Deb has served on the Regional Board of Directors, the Regional Management Team (RMT), and continues to serve for 28 years on the Convention Committee.

She also served two consecutive terms on the International Membership Committee. She remains active on the International level having served on the Visioning Retreat Task Force, the Chorus Growth Incentive Program Task Force, the Chorus Toolkit subcommittee Chair, the International Nominating Committee and currently serving on the International Philanthropy Committee.

Jean Flinn 

Jean Flinn, Certified Music Arranger, has been a member of Sweet Adelines International since April of 1974. She grew up in a barbershop home and arranged her first song when she was in 8th grade. When she was in 3rd grade, she started singing lead with three 6th grade girls. This quartet sang together and performed on area shows for six years.

Jean has been a musical leader in Sweet Adelines for 42 years. She directed the Chippewa Valley Chorus and the Cuyahoga Valley Chorus in Region 17. After serving as the Master Director of the Greater Cleveland Chorus for the past 26 years, she retired from directing in 2020. The Greater Cleveland Chorus earned 9 Regional
Championships under her direction and placed third in the 2018 AA Harmony Classic.

Jean continues to be active in Sweet Adelines at the regional level. She is a member of the Educational Steering Committee in Region 17 and on the Regional Faculty for
both Regions 17 and 9 where she teaches classes in Music Theory, Arranging, and Finale Music Software. She continues to coach choruses and quartets in both regions. She has taught several Virtual Classes on Zoom to students throughout the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

At the International level, Jean is also very active in the new Arranger Certification Program (ACP). She was selected, along with Certified Music Arranger Judy Vidal, to lead the first ACP Intermediate Cohort Group. Together, they have been mentoring 2 groups of 5 arrangers. They started their 3rd Cohort Group last summer.

After retiring from teaching Elementary Music, Jean moved to Florida. She, along with her two daughters, is a member of the Sound of Sunshine Chorus in Orlando, FL (Region 9), where she is currently the Associate Director. She is also a Lifetime Member of the Greater Cleveland Chorus in Region 17.