Barbershop is a form of a cappella (unaccompanied) singing which became popular in the USA at the turn of the 20th century. However it differs from other forms of a cappella singing in that it has four voice parts (one melody part and three harmony parts), and one of the harmony parts is predominantly above the melody. We sing both the more traditional barbershop style where all the parts are mostly singing the words, along with looser barbershop style arrangements where the harmony parts sing a lot of “doo”, “ba” and “oo”s.
It’s come a long way since then. Listen to our group and you might hear a bit of Carole King, Doris Day or even One Direction – though we do revisit the old stuff occasionally. It’s all about the satisfaction of ringing those chords.