4th Pan Pacific Barbershop Convention
Christchurch, New Zealand 27th-31st October, 2004.

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1st Place Gold - NZABS Open Quartet
1st Place Gold - Pan Pacific Open Quartet
Audience Choice Award - Most Entertaining Quartet

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Musical Island Boys receive top awards at the 4th Pan Pacific Barbershop Convention

Musical Island Boys with coach Charlotte Murray on the evening of the International Barbershop Show.	Musical Island Boys with 3rd Place International Visiting Quartet from USA, Metropolis.	Musical Island Boys shortly after performing in the quartet preliminaries.

The Musical Island Boys are now the best male barbershop quartet in New Zealand, and in the Pan Pacific Region (New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hawaii). The Pan Pacific title they will hold until 2008.

The Musical Island Boys have achieved a goal that they have longed to reach, now becoming the highest scoring quartet in New Zealand history. They competed in the preliminary round on Friday Morning, and were placed in the top 14 to go through to the finals. They competed that evening in the finals, and were announced as champions and most entertaining quartet later on Friday Night. It was a very emotional time!

Musical Island Boys shortly after performing in the quartet preliminaries.	Musical Island Boys with the trophy after being announced first place in the New Zealand Open Competition.	Musical Island Boys perform shortly after being announced as the overall Pan-Pacific Open Champions for 2004

On Saturday Morning, the Musical Island Boys competed with the Harbour Capital Chorus from Wellington, who eventually placed 3rd in the NZABS Open Chorus Competition. They also competed with the Wellington Youth Chorus who were singing only for evaluation.

The Musical Island Boys would like to congratulate all the other competitors for making the convention such a memorable one. Special congratulations to our chorus, Habour Capital Chorus who placed third, and our awesome friends from the Wellington Youth Chorus. Congratulations to our friends from The Blenders in Australia, who won the Pan Pacific Chorus, and our friends from The City of Sails, Auckland who won the New Zealand Open Chorus Competition. Congratulations also to Pastime, who won both the New Zealand and Pan Pacific Seniors titles. We would also like to congratulate the Canterbury Plainsmen for organising such a fine convention. We would also like to thank Checkpoint quartet, for their support and especially Rob Grieve who really looked after us in Christchurch. Congratulations to all competitors from Australia, Hawaii and Japan for making this a truly International convention.

Musical Island Boys' accept applause after being announced New Zealand and Pan Pacific Champions, 2004
Tenor - Jeff Hunkin	Lead - Lusa Washburn	Bass - Matthew Gifford	Baritone - William Hunkin

The Musical Island Boys have so many people to thank. First and foremost, we give our praise to God for being with us every step of the way. We would like to thank our amazing coach, Charlotte Murray, who has always had complete faith in us. We would like to thank our families, the Hunkins, Washburns and Giffords for their unfailing love and support. We would also like to the Shona Murray (HOD Music, Tawa College), our assisting coach Peter McGregor, the members of the Harbour Capital Chorus and Wellington Youth Chorus. We would like to thank the New Zealand Association, all of our brother and sister quartets and choruses from around New Zealand. We would like to thank all the competitors from outside New Zealand for making the convention so special. We would like to thank our visiting coaches Ben Ayling, Gary Bolles and Doug Harrington. We would like to thank everyone who has supported us from the start. Especially the Staff and Students from Tawa College, who have been with us since we began at school. Everyone who has been to one of our performances, who made a donation, who prayed for us and who supported us. We KNOW that we are only here because of you.

Photos from the MIB's performance at the International Barbershop Show, Saturday 30th October 8pm.

More photos from around the convention can be seen here. The scores for the quartet compeitions are below:

Many thanks and love to you all ... the Musical Island Boys.

OFFICIAL SCORING SUMMARY, NZABS & Pan Pacific Barbershop Convention
Quartet Finals, Christchurch, New Zealand

MUSICAL ISLAND BOYS full Pan-Pacific Photo Set.

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