BAY MINETTE, Ala. — If you watched the NBC reality show, “The Sing-Off,” you saw a bit of Baldwin County. Contestant Adam Chance attended Perdido Elementary/Middle School, and is a Baldwin County High graduate. He sang bass with the a capella (voice only) group “Street Corner Symphony.”

The group was a runner-up in the competition, but Chance and his band mates have parleyed their success into a tour with “The Sing-Off” judge Ben Folds — that is, if they can get a vehicle to tour in.

On their YouTube site, www.youtube.com/user/strasseneckesinfonie, the band says, “Street Corner Symphony needs your help. We’re set to open for Ben Folds on his next tour, but we don’t have a way to get there.” The site then gives ways people can donate to help the band acquire a vehicle. The band is also soliciting PayPal donations on their own website, www.streetcornersymphony.org to put together their first album.

Such is “success” for a just-starting group. But Chance would not have had this ride if it weren’t for … well … chance.

“The group was originally formed with Jeremy and Richie Lister, Jon and Mark McLemore, Ben Dixon and Sean Saunders,” said Chance. However, two of the members, Dixon and Saunders, left the group after the group won a spot on “The Sing-Off.”

“They just couldn’t do it,” explained Chance. “So they called me and “Little John” (John Martin.)

Chance had been making music since he picked up a saxophone in middle school, adding some mandolin, banjo and bass as he went along. He also says he can do “some piano.” He was a section leader in the BCHS band.

Voice training came at the University of Alabama.

“Up until then, I’d been singing in the shower,” smiled Chance.

“I was at the university,” explained Chance, “and there was ‘Get On Board’ day. The only thing that caught my eye was choir, so I decided to try that out.”

Chance learned that while he is a natural baritone, the choir needed bass singers. Bass is the lowest male voice in a singing group.

“I came to love it (singing bass) said Chance. The choir also was where Chance met other members of “Street Corner Symphony.”

According to the SCS website, “Adam studied journalism and music at the University of Alabama and is also a songwriter. He enjoys watching American and association football, wearing vests and ties, and would prefer not to die by sword or gunshot. Although he sings bass in the group, he is afraid of spiders.”

While Chance prefers rock and folk music, “Symphony” tackles all genres.

“With an a capella group, everyone has to have an ear for it. It was all new to me,” explained Chance.

But the group was able to meld quickly, and spent most of the holiday season working on the show.

“We were out in Los Angles for two months,” said Chance. While it was a singing competition, Chance recalls a lot of time spent on wardrobe and choreography.

“There was barely any time to rehearse together,” said Chance.

And while that is behind him, he warns aspiring musicians that there are “no weekends off, no days off.”

Although gold records might be in the future, Chance sees a future as a working musician. SCS, he says, has begun to find a niche doing Christmas music.

“It has the advantage that you can do a rock venue and you can do concert halls,” he said. “Or you can do corporate events.”

The group has signed with an agent and has (if they can pay for it) a record deal.

Chance is the youngest of three children, and he says his parents “have been supportive” throughout the experience.

He went back to one of his old Perdido schools where his mother works in the office, and said, “It was great. All of the parents and kids were cheering.”