BUCKS COUNTY

COUNTRY GENTLEMEN

BARBERSHOP CHORUS

We Invite You...

Right here in Bucks County is a Barbershop Chapter called, THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN, who have been singing in the Doylestown area for 32 years.

Our chapter prides itself on having congenial men of good character who love harmony in music or have a desire to harmonize. It is a group of forty men, a bunch of guys, who for most part do not read music, but are true believers in creating the barbershop sound.

WOULD YOUR GROUP OR ORGANIZATION LIKE TO HIRE A CHORUS OR A QUARTET????????????????

Send for our new free CD recording of a unique blend of harmony, humor, and variety, and songs of love, tenderness, friendship and patriotism.

We are ready to perform for your organization,

Telephone : Jim Cochran 215-672-1571

or Frank Martin 215-699-0795

Find out more about Barbershop Singing...

You Can Sing Too
4 Part Harmony...

The Barbershop Harmony Society in America, unites the world in song.
You can't be unhappy while singing. Putting a song in the hearts of the
world just might be the key to peace on earth.

As much a part of American culture as Old Glory, Mom and Apple Pie,
Barbershop Quartet singing is one of America's native art forms.

It is alive today, largely through
the efforts of more than 30,000 members...

The History of Barbershop Harmony Society

Barbershop Harmony Society, formerly known as The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America, was founded in 1938 when a fellow Tulsa tax attorney, Owen C. Cash happened to meet a fellow Tulsan, investment banker, Rupert I. Hall, while both were stranded when a storm closed the airport. Meeting by chance in a hotel lobby, the men discovered their mutual love for vocal harmony, and together they bemoaned the decline of that American institution, the barbershop quartet.

What is the
Barbershop Harmony Society?

It is devoted to promoting, perserving, and enjoying special form of harmony known as barbershop. Technically speaking barbershop harmony is style of unaccompanied singing. With singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody, The Lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides In-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords specifically, dominant-type or barbershop sevenths that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.