Mix·Tape | (mikstāp)

Dayve is originally from Mason, Ohio and has recently returned home to the tri-state area after nearly 30 years in West Palm Beach, FL. She is the VP of Operations for DW Consulting Solutions, a LinkedIn coaching and training company and owns her own performance coaching business, HighNote Enterprises. She is a popular performance coach for ensembles across the US. Her spirited and positive approach uses inspiration, humor, and imagination helping her clients achieve excellence technically and artistically. 

After graduating with a BFA in Acting from Wright State University, Dayve moved to sunny South Florida. Soon thereafter, she discovered the barbershop community and joined the Royal Palm Chorus and Sweet Adelines. A few short weeks later, she found herself Choreographer and Assistant Director of this award winning chapter. She is currently a proud member of both Spirit of the Gulf in Ft. Myers, FL and Scioto Valley Chorus in Dublin, OH. 

Dayve has served in numerous leadership capacities at the chapter and regional levels including Associate Director for the 2005 Sweet Adelines International Harmony Classic Champions, Women of Note and as Regional Education Coordinator for Coastal Harmony Region 9 from 2008-2014. Her ‘crowning’ achievement is as the tenor of Bling! Quartet, the 2015 Sweet Adelines International Quartet Champions.

Dayve lives “tiny” in #SweetPeace on several rural acres outside of Cincinnati where she enjoys bonfires with her boyfriend Chuck and their fur babies Delilah, Lucy, and Fluffy Cat.

 Jenni is originally from Durham, North Carolina and moved to Ohio in 2012. With the bulk of her performing background in musical theater, she has shifted her focus to barbershop singing. Her first quartet, Half and Half, was the first ever mixed quartet to reach the top 15 in Barbershop Harmony Society history. Jenni looks forward to working just as hard with MixTape to continue creating impactful barbershop music.

You may have also seen her graphic design work around the barbershop world. She is a freelance graphic designer and has worked on logos for Drew Wheaton Music, Lady A Cappella, Capital City Chorus, Circle City Sound, Melody Hine Arrangements and of course the design and branding for MixTape.

When not singing barbershop with her quartet friends, she spends her time watching horror movies with her amazing husband Tyler and cuddling their adorable mut, Doc.

Brian, chose Barbershop as his "hobby" of choice when he was in high school, back in 1983 and never looked back. He’s a quartet and chorus bass singer, winning international gold medals with Forefront quartet in 2016 and with The Vocal Majority chorus in 2018. In the “who knew” category, Forefront made a cameo appearance in 2022 with Music City Chorus and THEY WON! :-) Brian is no stranger to mixed ensemble singing. In 2002 his group M.O.D won the Mixed quartet prize at the Buckeye Invitational. He also sings in and is the Interim Director of The Alliance Chorus, now an all-voices chorus. A Certified BHS Performance Judge since 2016, his strongest attributes are in enhancing an ensemble's visual and vocal performance aspects. Brian coaches on a regular basis and has coached and taught at BHS Harmony University, several BHS Top Gun quartet sessions and countless district level Harmony College programs across the US. Elsewhere in the world he has worked with many talented groups from the UK to Germany’s BinG! Harmony College to Australia and New Zealand. He's even been on a coaching tour across Sweden, Denmark and Finland working with both men’s and women’s quartets and choruses. And lately he has been making efforts to share the gift of music and barbershop at a local youth correctional facility.

Brian has worked 20+ years as an Information Systems Analyst at an Ohio-based hospital corporation. Although he loves his work, it has mostly served as a way to support this “hobby” called barbershop. He and his girlfriend, Anna, reside in Worthington with their bunny,  Chloe and their pup, Parker.

Cy lives in the Cincinnati area and runs his own business (Cy Wood Creative) as a full-time artist. He moved to Ohio to teach music and theatre at Butler Tech School of the Arts, which he lovingly did so for 7 wonderful years. Before that, Cy worked in New York City for nearly a decade as a professional actor, producer, special events coordinator, and creative director. Cy holds a BFA from Brigham Young University where he graduated with a Music, Dance and Theater degree with an emphasis in Music Education. 

Barbershop has been a lifelong passion for Cy. He is currently a Performance Judge Candidate for the Barbershop Harmony Society, and a highly sought-after, award winning coach for performing groups around the world. His previous quartet, Half and Half was ranked 14th in the world in 2022, and he plans to continue his exciting journey representing the Everyone in Harmony mindset with MixTape. 

He is happily married to Dustin, the love of his life, and they have two purrrfect kittens, Chleo and Teddi.