Diminished 4th Formed in the summer of 2001 expressly for the purpose of competing in the fall contest, Diminished 4th has really come to enjoy performing in public. One might infer that the quartet is intellectual in nature having named itself after an obscure musical interval that is seldom used. That is just a coincidence and any inference based upon said coincidence is not true. These four sons of the soil just thought "Diminished 4th" sounded better than " 3 Big Guys and a Runt". Intellect is not their forte, country humor and barbershop harmony is. Members are: Lead, Jim Sweers farms and owns and operates Jim's Electric and Odd Jobs, an electrical contracting business. Jim tied the knot in June, 2005 to his new wife, Julie. They now reside somewhere between Britt and Kanawha with their step-daughter, Jackie. Tenor, Marc Murray owns and operates The Lawn Guy lawn service in Mason City and also many Calendar Club stores around the North Iowa and Southern Minnesota area during the holidays. Marc lives in Mason City with his wife Michelle and sons Nicolas and Noah. Bass, Curt Johnson is from Lake Mills. Curt heads up Commercial, Fleet, and Agricultural Tires for Graham Tire in Mason City and is an avid John Deere Toy collector. (Guess who got us our hats and water steins.) Curt also doubles as the group's poet. Baritone, Jayson Ryner is director of Choral Activities at NIACC and lives with his wife Sarah and son Jordan in Nora Springs. Jayson is also a certified Society Music Judge, directs the River City Barbershop Chorus from the Mason City Chapter, and arranges many barbershop tunes for the chorus, quartet, and internationally known quartets. We'd be just plumb tickled to sing for you and your guests at your next party, business meeting, picnic, reunion, swanky society affair, or weekend hog roast. Just think of Diminished 4th as your neighbors from down the road, come to pay a little visit. You just sit back and make yourselves comfortable. We'll sing and laugh and maybe shed a tear together and you don't even have to make us coffee! (If you are having a hog roast, we might be persuaded to have a sandwich!) Call Diminished 4th for great barbershop harmony and country fun. No affair too posh, No get-together too down home! To contact Diminished 4th, simply click here or call Marc Murray: (641)424-9053. For a print-quality publicity photograph of Diminished 4th, click to download this ZIP file (2.8 MB): Print-Quality Photograph (3678x2942) All content Copyright ©2006 The River City Barbershop Chorus