About Us

Sooner Sensations Show Chorus is an award winning, fun loving, a cappella barbershop chorus. We are proud to be a chapter of Sweet Adelines International and member of Heart of America Region 25. Although we primarily rehearse in southern Oklahoma City, we have members from all over Oklahoma and North Texas. We are always happy to accept new members, both young and mature. We compete annually and love to perform for various events throughout the year. ​​​

Keep scrolling to meet our fearless leadership.

Our Leadership

Director Jeff Sykes
Jeff is a university graduate and he started his love for music singing with his family.
As you would know it, two brothers and a dad becomes a quartet very easily. After college he sang with the
Oklahoma City Men's barbershop chapter and has been a member for 35 years. He later directed the OK Chorale for 14 years and was nominated Barbershopper of the Year for 3 different years. Jeff has Sung in numerous quartets including singing in the Music Man on six occasions . Jeff has been the director of the Sooner Sensations Show Chorus since 2015 and in the first year they won the "Audience Favorite" award for Region 25. He was also elected to be president of VSO the following year.

Assistant Director and Choreographer
​Dawn D'Amico
Dawn, a  performing  member of OK City  Chorus, as  well  as  a  dual member  of Sooner Sensations Show Chorus  of  Sweet  Adelines-Region  25, comes  from  a  musical  family and  is  a second generation  barbershopper. Dawn has been the tenor of multiple accomplished quartets; one of which, Couture,  was the  2018  Region 25  Champion and is a current member of Wildfire! Quartet. She has  been  a contributing  member  of  her region by  serving  as  Communication  and YWIH Coordinators. Dawn  started  her  Sweet  Adeline  experience  with  the  Sooner  Sensations  Show  Chorus,  where  she was  the choreographer for  ten  years  as  well  as  tenor  section  leader  for multiple  years.  She  has  been  involved  with  multiple  area  Youth  in  Harmony workshops at the chorus and regional level as the event organizer,  faculty teaching quartet and choreographer. She is the current  choreographer for  Vocal Sounds of Oklahoma men’s chorus of the Barbershop Harmony Society, visual coach  for Perpetual Sound Quartet and has recently returned to Sooner Sensations  as Assistant Director and Choreographer.

Team Leader Shannon Haddox 
Shannon has been a Sweet Adeline since January 2015. She started her journey as a tenor with Harmony River Chorus in Augusta, GA. She immediately loved the music and friendship of Harmony River Chorus, and was elected to their Management Team in spring 2015, where she served as secretary. She sang tenor in the short-lived quartet Spellbound in the fall of 2015. In August 2016, she and her husband moved to Norman, OK, where she lost no time finding Sooner Sensations Show Chorus! She was first elected to the Management Team and to the team leader position in spring 2018, and discovered the joys of singing bari in the fall of that year. She also enjoys volunteering with her church, St. Michaels Episcopal Church in Norman, OK.

Finance Manager Amy Baker-Watt
Amy is the current Finance Coordinator for Sooner Sensations, the Tenor Section Leader, and Music Librarian, etc. She joined the chorus in 1989 as a college student, when the chorus was still forming which makes her an original Charter Member. Life led her away, but in 2009 the chorus reached out and invited her back for an anniversary concert and she has been dedicated to this wonderful chorus ever since then. Amy is a single mom now, with two wonderful kids who appreciate her love for this art form!

Secretary Harriet Routon
Harriet joined Sooner Sensations October of 1994. She has been a team member on  and off since joining the chorus.  For two years she was financial manager. She is on the membership committee .  She sings lead and also sings tenor when needed.

We are Family

One of the things we as a chorus pride ourselves on is the fellowship of singing with our family. We have multiple mother/daughter and sister duos along with two family trios in the Sooner Sensations.