Looking for a smaller group or a quartet to entertain during your private event or special occasion?   Our quartets Rip Chords and Take 5 are ready to sing for your special event. 

Rip Chords Quartet

Rip Chords pulls its members from the Vocal Matrix Chorus. We enjoy singing at retirement communities, churches, and small events such as birthday, anniversary, and retirement parties. Rip Chords has a diverse repetoire, including seasonal  songs for the holidays such as Christmas and Valentines. We are available to sing for your next event or just to entertain you!  For more information about Rip Chords, please contact Kim  (864)363-5298 or at [email protected] .

Meet our singers (from left to right): 

Susan Kelley sings Baritone and was Decorating Manager at Strossners Bakery. Her creations are in high demand especially with the VMx chorus. Susan is recently happily retired.  She has a daughter, Allyn.

Kim Brown is our Bass. She is retired from Prisma Health where she was a nuclear cardiology technologist. The retired life allows her to travel, especially to NYS where her children, Matt, Melissa and Keith live. Kim has 2 grandsons and 1 great grandson.

Anne Elmerick is our Lead and our newest member. She recently retired as a marketing director in the packaging industry. Anne loves to travel and still has a few destinations on her bucket list. She has 2 daughters, Stephanie and Nikki, and 2 granddaughters.

Anita Edge sings Tenor. She is a retired Schoolteacher. If you see Anita anywhere, she is most likely wielding knitting needles! She has twin boys, Matthew and Kyle.

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Take 5 Quartet

Take 5 Quartet’s members come from diverse backgrounds.   However, when we sing together, we blend our voices in 4-part barbershop harmony.  All of our members are part of Vocal Matrix Chorus.  Our repertoire includes modern as well as classic barbershop songs, and seasonal songs for Christmas, Patriotic and Valentines holidays.  We would love to entertain you for your next event, party or gathering!  For more information about Take 5 Quartet, please contact Jeanine Douglas at 864-940-5630 or at [email protected].

Meet our singers (from left to right)

Maggie Ingersoll is our Tenor.  Maggie has been singing her whole life in various choruses and as a soloist at church.  Since moving to South Carolina with her husband Gary and her three children, she found Vocal Matrix Chorus and has been hooked on barbershop sound ever since. You can ask her family how much singing goes on in the car and they will say it never ends!

Luanne Greenburg sings baritone. She learned to sing harmony as a child singing at the piano with her mother.  She is happily married to Joe , and is the proud driver of “Granna’s Taxi” for her four beautiful grandgirls.

Jeanine Douglas is our Bass.  She is retired from a Global Market Research Company in Chicago where she was a Sr. Vice President of Marketing.  When she moved to South Carolina, she was introduced to women’s barbershop singing and has been hooked for 17 years.  She loves to sing with several local groups and loves traveling to Ohio to see her 3 grandchildren.

Laura Beard sings lead and considers herself almost a native of South Carolina having lived here since she was 5 . In addition to her involvement with her Quartet and Vocal Matrix, Laura sings with various groups across the Upstate. Laura has 2 cats, Mocha and Macaroni, and enjoys fostering bottle baby kittens in her free time.