HOA Directors

• The Kansas City Missouri Chapter recognizes and honors the musical directors of the Heart of America Chorus. They have used their skills to direct and impart their musical knowledge to each member of the chorus with one goal in mind: to enhance and improve the singing and performance excellence of the chorus. Through these efforts, each director of HOA has contributed mightily to the entertainment, preservation and encouragement of singing in the barbershop style. We are searching for specific tenures for three directors from our earliest years, who do not appear in the chronology:

Tom "Moonlight" Murphy

Joe Stern

Jimmy Fern

1947-57 - Don Stevens

1957 - - - LaVern Cable (Interim)

1957-71 - Don Webb

1971-74 - Dan Henry Bowser

1974-84 - Jim Bagby

1984-87 - Steve Leone

1987-90 - David Krause

1990-98 - Jim Bagby

1998-2001 - Gordon Lankenau

2001-08 - Jim Bagby - named Director Emeritus

2008-12 - David Krause

2012-14 - Mark Fortino

2014-17 - Jerry Garrard

2017-21 - Bob Velazquez

2022-now - Carter Combs