Jon Greene during a recent rehearsal. (Photo by Allan Dean. Click to enlarge.)
Getting the members of the Red Bank Area Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society together for practice has not been possible during the pandemic.
And as the group has learned over the the past 13 months, rehearsing via Zoom just doesn’t cut it because of audio latency issues.
So director Craig J. Page found a workaround.
The Red Bank Barbershop Quartet, which Mayor Pasquale Menna calls a borough “institution,” stopped in at Wednesday night’s council meeting to commemorate a declaration of Barbershop Quartet Week with several classics, including “My Wild Irish Rose.”
The foursome, a unit of the borough-based 50-man Chorus of the Atlantic, then surprised hizzoner with this number. On Saturday, he turns… well, he’s not saying, but he’ll be 59, based on information he once shared more freely. (Video by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)