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	CJ Lead	Bob Baritone	Mike Bass	Don Tenor

How We Started		Click for the Barbershop Harmony Society webpage		Barbershop? What's that? Barbershop quartets sing a style of a cappella music featuring 4-part vocal harmony with no instrumental accompaniment. Typically a barbershop quartet will have a lead singer singing the melody, with three other singers (a high tenor, a bass, and a baritone) singing harmony. Note that UNLIKE most quartet arrangements, in barbershop the melody is NOT the highest voice. This is what gives barbershop quartet music its peculiar charm. The singers in a Barbershop quartet will usually perform wearing matching outfits such as blazers, bowties, suspenders, or tuxedos if the setting requires it. Barbershop quartets perform at all types of events including weddings, festivals, private parties, conventions, grand openings, and fundraisers. The barbershop style of singing originated in minstrel shows and vaudeville over a hundred years ago. It gained popularity because (believe it or not), for someone with average musical abilities, it is EASY to sing. The chord intervals are usually very natural. In the heyday of Tin Pan Alley, songwriters produced a stream of melodramatic ballads and novelty songs that became associated with barbershop music. Young men of the early twentieth century enjoyed the practice of "woodshedding", or experimenting to find the best-sounding chord arrangements. Could the name possibly have originated because parents of that age despised their sons' music, thus compelling them to practice it in the woodshed where they could not be heard? Some things never change.
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