Ben Henri

Ben Henri
What name(s) do you answer to? Mr. Henri, Ben, Benri
When did you join 2WN? Winter Season 2 (Jan 2009)
What part(s) do you play in the group? Bass, Vocal Percussion
What’s your favorite 2WN song? I’m awfully fond of “Hallelujah”
What do you do for a living? Herding cats. And teaching vocal music at Grosse Pointe North High School. They essentially amount to the same thing.
Tell us about your family, and who you live with… My roommates are jerks. We never hang out, and they hate laughter. We definitely did NOT sing in the same acappella group at U of M. Oh, one of them is Jason Mooney. Most of my family lives in Cleveland. Others live in DC and East Bay, CA. We are all pretty bad at using inside voices. When we all get together, each day contains about 3 dozen references to Eddie Izzard, Louie Anderson, or any other number of stand-up comedians.
What is your weirdest “quirk”? Pickles. I can’t stand pickles. If I ever order a sandwich at a restaurant, I make sure to tell the waitress that there shouldn’t be a pickle within a mile of my plate. And whose brilliant idea was it to always put pickles by grilled cheese sandwiches? How do those two tastes go together at all? I mean, tomato soup I can understand, but pickles?! Gross.
Do dentists go to other dentists or do they just do it themselves? Good idea: playing the accordion at a polka hall. Bad idea: playing the accordion…anywhere else. Good idea: doing your own gardening. Bad idea: doing your own dental work.
Where did your family go for vacations in the summer? Maine. Yep. Maine.
What Else? My thumbs are abnormally large. I’m probably the next step of human evolution.