Seventy Years of the RED BLAZER MEN'S CHORUS
• September 1948
Edward Menz, President of the Amherst School Board encourages Carl Minich, Adult Education Program Director, to include a class for Men's singing in the 1948 classes, sponsored by the Amherst Adult School, a young Walter E. Reitz was given the assignment, and starts the Amherst Male Glee Club beginning a series of "Annual Musical Review" programs.
• March 16th, 1968
AMGC's 20th Anniversary Show
• March 20th-21st, 1970
AMGC performs first two night "Annual Musical Review"
• March 30th-31st, 1973
AMGC celebrates 25th year Silver Anniversary
• March 1975
New logo first used in programs, nicknamed by the members "The Peckerheads", it was used each year through the 2013 show.
• March 1980
AMGC becomes wholly independent entity, since its inception, it was sponsored by the Amherst Adult School
• March 20th, 21st, 22nd 1980
AMGC starts a "Three-shows-in-three-nights" format Thursday, Friday & Saturday nights, a format that would continue through the 2009 season.
• March 15th-17th, 1984
First "Red Blazer Varieties of '84" presented, name changed from "Annual Musical Review"
• April 30th, 1988
AMGC travels to Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA for the AMCA "1000 Male Voices in Harmony" International Big Sing
• May 22nd, 1993
AMGC travels to Marquette, MI for the " Sing 100" 1993 International Big Sing.
• May 31st-June 2nd, 1996
AMGC Performs a second version of the Red Blazer Musical Review at the Lancaster Opera House in Lancaster, NY.
• 1998
AMGC celebrates 50 year with a special edition of the Red Blazer Varieties
• May 1st-2nd 1998
AMGC hosts the Associated Male Choruses of America (AMCA) International Big Sing
• November 4th, 2004
AMGC participates in the NY-Penn District, Inc., Big Sing in Wellsboro, PA
• April 30th, 2005
AMGC performs with ten other choruses in the Great Lakes Male Chorus Association district sing.
• September 2008
AMGC hires Brett Ransom as music director.
• March 19th, 20th &21st 2009
Last three night Red Blazer Varieties format
• April 16th-17th, 2010
AMGC introduces a new three-shows-in-two-days performance format, eliminating the Thursday night show, but introducing the widely popular Saturday Matinee Show
• May 14, 2011
AMGC perform with the Brant Men of Song and the AMCO in Brant, ON, Canada • April 12th-13th, 2013, AMGC announces at its spring show this following the close of the spring season they will change their name to Red Blazer Men's Chorus (RBMC) • November 10th 2013, RBMC begins a series of annual concerts honoring veterans.
• April 4th-5th, 2014
First Red Blazer Varieties under the new name RBMC • January 31st, 2015, RBMC joins The Towne Players in a Broadway Style production in the Town of Tonawanda, NY.
• May 23rd, 2015
RBMC participates in the Associated Male Choruses of Ontario (AMCO) in "Ontario Sings 2015" show in Brantford, ON CANADA
• September 20th, 2015
RBMC participates in "International Men of Song"
• April 23rd, 2016
RBMC joins the Lock City Glee Club in their "Spring Sing '16" show in Lockport, NY
• December 18th, 2016
AMCG founding director Walter E. Reitz dies at the age of 95 from colon cancer. Mr. Reitz directed our group from its inception until its 60th anniversary show in 2008.
• March 24th-25th, 2017
For the first time, RBMC moves the annual Red Blazer varieties to new venue at the Sweet Home Middle School • May 13, 2017 RBMC performs with the Niagara Men's Chorus and AMCO in St. Catharines, ON CANADA
• 2018
70th Anniversary of the AMGC/RBMC