2016 Drive

From left to right:

Dan Allison (baritone), Raymond Johnson (bass), Joey Constantine (lead), Josh Beswick (tenor)

Drive is the culmination of four musical journeys, and also just the beginning. Formed in 2016, each of its founding members spent years loving, listening to, and performing a wide variety of vocal music. Sharing a common background of stellar intonation, lyric expression, and expanded, ensemble sound found in barbershop harmony, they knew these fundamentals could allow a group to jump head-first into any piece that excited or moved its singers, regardless of style or genre.

It became a matter of finding the right singers: people with a unique blend of the vocal skills, techniques, and artistry needed for the group sound as well as the openness, collaborative spirit, and passion needed to ignite and sustain the creative spark. A late night of informal singing at a convention brought four singers together and separate, parallel roads converged into one. As they and their audiences are discovering, the drive has just begun...