Director

Joanne Evans
Joanne is originally from Torbay, NF. She moved to Halifax nine years ago. She is currently working at the NRC as a Technical Officer in Genome Atlantic's DNA sequencing facility. She has two degrees in Science—biology and Applied Human Nutrition.

Joanne has a lot of barbershop music experience—16 years of it! For four years she was co-director of ScotianAires alongside Shelagh Radcliffe. She as been lead section leader for six years. She has coached the quartets: Accent and Nexus. Before coming to ScotianAires she was a member of Newfound Sound, assistant director and lead section leader, and president and treasurer of the chorus.

Her quartet experience includes: Miss Behavin' (Area 1 Third Place Medalist 2004), Heart of the Sea (Area 1 Champions 1999), Momentum (Area 1 4th Place Medalist 1995),
B Natural (Area 1 2nd Place medalist 1993).

Mary King (MEK)
has been involved with barbershopping for more than 20 years, having sung baritone or tenor in three Harmony, Inc. choruses: the Mel-O-Dees of Truro, the ScotianAires of Dartmouth, and currently the Citadel Chimes. She has been a section leader in all these choruses and has sung in many quartets over the years. She sings baritone with EXIT 4, the 2005 Area 1 Quartet Champion.

She has been actively involved in directing for the past four years and enjoys working closely with Joanne as our assistant director. For the past many years MEK has participated in the Harmony Intensive Training School (HITS) Directing Programme.

She is our vocal warm-up expert, and comes up with clever songs and challenging exercises that make warm-ups fun!