About the Deci-Belles

The Deci-Belles have been performing in the Houston area for over 30 years!
We are a ladies daytime singing group, with an average membership of around 35.
We sing old favorites and contemporary tunes arranged in the barbershop style,
with each person singing either Tenor, Lead, Baritone, or Bass.
 

Rehearsals

We rehearse on Friday mornings at the Treemont Retirement Center, located
at 2501 Westerland, off Westheimer and Gessner. Our rehearsals are
usually from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm and we welcome visitors to come visit us
at any time. Please check our calendar if you are planning to come see us,
just to make sure we don't have a performance that day.

 

Contact Us

If you need additional information, please give us a call.
Call Pat at 281-497-4904.
You may also email us at decibelle@comcast.net

 

Our Directors
 

Martha Upton

Our Director is Martha Upton from Houston, Texas.
She has been the Director of the Deci-Belles for over 30 years!

Martha has a Degree in Music Education and is currently
the co-owner of Main Street Musicians, a chamber music agency,
and Communications/Membership Secretary for Westbury United Methodist Church.

 Martha is currently a Chapter-At -Large member of Sweet Adelines International
and was a member of the Port of Harmony Chapter of Sweet Adelines in Houston.
She is also a Charter Member of the Twin Forks Chapter of Sweet Adelines
in North Dakota, and served as their second director.

Martha was a member of the competing quartet, 4 Karat Gold.
and was the Lead for a number of years in Taste of Harmony,
a performing Houston quartet.

Martha has three children, Tiffany, Bill, and Sally
and is Oma to 7 grandchildren!

We are so happy to have Martha as our Director!

  
 

 Cay Eckland

Cay Eckland, our Assistant Director, is from Montgomery, Texas and has a
Bachelors Degree in Music from The University of Texas in Austin.
She taught music for 15 years in Houston ISD and sang with Sweet Adelines
for 10 years and was also an Assistant Director.

Currently, she is the Director of The Chordbusters,
a women's daytime barbershop group in the Conroe area,
and the National Music Coordinator for her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta,
and has been the Assistant Director for the Deci-Belles for 30 years.

She sang in a quartet in high school and sang back-up behind a number of artists
here in Houston and did commercials for a number of businesses.
In her spare time, she arranges some of our music for us.

 We are very lucky to have such talented musicians as directors.