N-B Video: Talent raids Southern Wells at 2012 Raider Idol

Southern Wells students perform during the 2012 Raider Idol talent competition Thursday, March 15. Jenna Reinhard, Colton Kellam, and Ashton Leas, as well as a group comprised of Alyssa Morris, Eli Leas, BreAnna Glasco, Jacelyn Kinsey and Madison Watson, won for their respective performances. (Video by Chet Baumgartner)

Norwell show choirs keep singing

The Norwell show choirs, including the Knight Stars featured here, unleash their 2012 line up of songs during their 2012 competition at their school. We'll have more songs from more choirs throughout the week. Learn more in the Monday, March 12, News-Banner. (Video by Frank Shanly)

N-B Video: More music from Norwell's 2012 show choir competition

The Norwell show choirs unleash their 2012 line up of songs during their 2012 competition at their school. We'll have more songs from more choirs throughout the week. Learn more in the Monday, March 12, News-Banner. (Video by Frank Shanly)

Norwell's Lauren Fiechter Graces Cover of New Show Choir Magazine

The world of show choir now has its very own magazine, and the photo on the cover of the very first issue should be a familiar one for Wells County show choir aficionados.

Norwell’s Lauren Fiechter, captured by the camera performing with the Knight Moves at Northridge on Feb. 25, adorns the cover of the first edition of “Song in Motion,” which was being distributed free of charge at Saturday’s Norwell Show Choir Invitational.

The new magazine is being produced by an Indianapolis company, Those Guys Productions LLC, but sets out to cover activities across the country. In fact, on page three, is a story about show choir in Malaysia!

In their joint editorial, founders Ryan Morris and Dan Baker state that their goal is “to connect the show choir world in a way that has never been done before.”

They invite feedback and contributions from those involved in show choir at all levels, and the first issue in fact includes a section focussing on comments made by students involved in the experience.

The first edition also features stories relating to keeping instruments and voices in accord, healthy living while on the road for competitions, planning trips, and the role of directors, upcoming “show choir style” events, and a look at the program run by Los Alamitos High School in California.

(Los Alamitos competed head to head with Norwell at the 2011 Finale National Championships in New York.)

Along with the first copy of his magazine, Morris was at the Norwell Invitational Saturday, and free subscriptions were among the prizes given out to members of the audience during the course of the competition.

The magazine is scheduled to be produced six times per year, with an annual subscription rate of $14.97 plus applicable taxes (For Indiana residents, that will mean $16.02). For further information, check www.songinmotion.com

N-B Video: Norwell show choirs hold annual competition — "Anyway You Want It"

The Norwell show choirs unleash several songs, such as "Anyway You Want It" during their 2012 competition at their school. We'll have more songs throughout the week. Learn more in the Monday, March 12, News-Banner. (Video by Frank Shanly)

Photos of the Knight Moves at the Norwell Invitational

Norwell's Knight Moves, unbeaten in Small Mixed Division competition in 2012, perform at the 2012 Norwell Show Choir Invitational.

Photos of the Knight Stars at the Norwell Invitational

The Knight Stars shine at the 2012 Norwell Show Choir Invitational.