Fretless made its debut in June of 1999 at the First Parish Unitarian Church in Bedford, MA. In 2004, we competed at the Eastern Regional Harmony Sweepstakes at Tufts University's Cohen Auditorium, winning third place. In 2005, we produced our first CD entitled "All the Things We Are". Purchase your copy today!

Vicki is our soprano. She grew up in Los Angeles and never saw rain until moving north to study music at Oregon State University. After graduating with a degree in Vocal Performance, she lived in Oregon for over 20 years, performing throughout the Pacific Northwest with her original comedy-cabaret duo, Double Image, which was the proud recipient of an NEA grant during the Jesse Helms era. Vicki has traveled the world with various choirs, performing behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains as a teenager, and later landing summer gigs at the Aspen Music Festival and Oregon Bach Festival, including an appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in honor of Bach's 300th birthday. Vicki is a versatile and dynamic actress, having performed over thirty roles in plays and musical theatre, and is a nationally produced playwright. She also sings with the Master Singers of Lexington. Vicki lives in Woburn, MA with her software-developing/figure-skating/Jeopardy!-champion husband, and Cindy, the world's sweetest - and shyest - cat.

Dianne sings alto. She grew up in Massachusetts and made the move to beautiful Pelham, New Hampshire in 1991, where she currently lives. She has sung in choruses all her life, beginning as a singer at the ripe old age of 7 with the senior church choir. In 1991, she discovered the world of Barbershop a cappella when she sang baritone with the Merrimack Valley Chapter of Sweet Adelines. She sang with them until 2003 (with one 5 year break) before joining the 4th place International Medalist Sweet Adelines Coastline Show Chorus. She joined the Harmony, Incorporated barbershop family in February 2005 as a tenor in the quartet Exhilaration. In November of that same year, Exhilaration won the 2005 International Championship Quartet competition in Hamilton, Ontario. Exhilaration reigned as Queens of Harmony for the next year. Dianne also sang with two Harmony, Inc. choruses - Sounds of the Seacoast and New England Voices in Harmony. NEVIH just won the 2009 Area 2 chorus competition. Dianne knows what day of the week it is depending on what part she is singing. She currently sings male tenor with The New Greeley Singers, a community chorus, soprano/mezzo with Boston Jazz Voices, an 18 member a cappella ensemble, and until just recently, bass in New England Voices in Harmony. She discovered the wonderful world of jewelry-making in December 2008 and has started her own company, Iridescence.

David is our tenor. His musical background is extensive, beginning with rhythmic chants while rocking in his crib. David grew up in Tucson and toured nationally and internationally for five years with the Tucson Boys' Chorus; he can still twirl a rope with elan. He was a founding member, and director in his senior year, of the Mendicants, the first a cappella group at Stanford University. Locally, David also sings with the Master Singers, a classical chamber chorus, and with Boston Jazz Voices, a mixed a cappella chorus. He was a founding member of the Shawsheen River Rats, a male a cappella quintet that existed for 18 years starting in 1980.  The Rats, including both David and Charlie, won the New England Regional Harmony Sweepstakes in 1993, and went on to place third in the National Harmony Sweepstakes.  With the retirement of the Rats, David started Fretless in 1998.  David is a Division Scientist at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, where he conducts medical imaging research. David and his wife, Sarah (an award winning poet and fiction writer), live in Bedford and have two perfect grandchildren.

Matt sings baritone. A native of Schenectady, New York, his singing 'career' began unexpectedly when some friends coaxed him into joining the high school theatre program; he ended up playing the Cowardly Lion in "The Wiz." At Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he sang in the men's Glee Club and Simple Harmonic Motion with tours to Montreal, England, Wales, and Italy.  Since then he has directed the Boston University Choral Society, performed with the New England Conservatory Camerata, and has been cantor at various churches in the Worcester-Boston area.  These days he directs the eclectic a cappella group None of the Above, seeks out the perfect pint of IPA or stout, roots for his New York Yankees (!), and dreams of his annual 'pilgrimage' to the races at Saratoga.  He lives in Framingham, MA with his partner Dana, and the cutest Jack Russell terrier in the world, Sparky.

Charlie is our bass. He grew up in Holliston, MA and currently lives in Dorchester.  He has been active for many years in community theater performing roles such as Juan Peron in "Evita", Thomas Jefferson in "1776", Ralph Rackstraw in "HMS Pinafore", and Mackheath in "Three Penny Opera". He was also a member of the Sounds of Concord Barbershop chorus for 5 years, a member of the Boston Gay Men's Chorus for 3 years, and was a member of the Patterson Chorale, a gospel ensemble, for 5 years.  He currently sings tenor (yes, tenor!) with Boston Jazz Voices, an 18-member mixed a cappella chorus. He is pleased to be singing in Fretless with other members of Boston Jazz Voices; Charlie sang for 11 years with David in the Shawsheen River Rats, an all-male a cappella quintet. Charlie is an ICP applications specialist with a company that manufactures analytical instrumentation and measures elemental metals.  He also loves hunting for that perfect antique.

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