.....meet the Rats
Low Down Rat
Jeff Russell makes his home in Grantham with his wife Deb and is the proud grandfather of the newest Russell family member- Madeline Grace. He is employed in the IS department at DHMC by day and a tennis pro by night...he is even trying to teach Lead Rat how to play tennis- good luck. Jeff started singing in third grade but has sung Barbershop less than 3 years. Jeff switched to the bass part for Rat Race (he used to sing bari and lead). Besides singing, Jeff loves his new truck and anything to do with beer.
Rat Bari
Chris Gribnau has been involved with music since he was a little kid, mostly as a trumpet player, but now he is a music teacher in VT. He loves playing jazz and classical music and also plays in Vermont’s only salsa band - Grupo Sabor (www.gruposabor.com). Chris enjoys hiking, sailing (he’s only sunk one boat...), deep-frying stuff, pickling everything else, playing cribbage, geocaching (101 found!), making his mean BBQ ribs and trying to plunk out stuff on his bass. He is happy to be singing all the ‘leftover notes’ in Rat-Race. His sweetie Lisa is a budding barbershopper.
Squeaky
Pierce LaHaye is a newly converted tenor for Rat Race; he started out singing Lead for the North Country Chordsmen as a sophmore in high school. While in High School he sang in a variety of ensembles including the LHS Superlatives where he sang both tenor and bass. The Squeak Man just recently graduated from Lebanon High School and got a new cat. He is not quite sure what he will do with only Rat Race to supply all his singing needs, but is sure he will figure out something.
Lead Rat
Dan Signor actually has a long history in barbershop. Sig (one of his numerous nicknames) is a past district quartet champion, a past singing judge, the past director of the district small chorus champions and a mixed harmony addict. A music educator by day, Lead Rat has spent most of his recent time singing baritone in The Honeymooners (www.hmquartet.com) with his mucho talented wife, Gaye. They live in Grantham with their mucho mucho talented daughter, Alexa and his motorcylce, Jake. In his spare time Dan enjoys doing home improvement projects, learning how to play tennis from Low Down, working in the box office of the Lebanon Opera House and counting his shoes.