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A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop style, characterized by four-part harmony without instrumental accompaniment . The four voices are: the lead , the vocal part which typically carries the melody ; a bass , the part which provides the bass line to the melody; a tenor , the part which harmonizes ...
Max Q is the barbershop quartet that won the gold medal Barbershop Harmony Society International Barbershop Quartet Contest at Denver's Pepsi Center July 7, 2007. [1] The quartet's run for the title is featured in the 2009 feature documentary American Harmony .
The Dapper Dans barbershop quartet, at Disneyland's Main Street, USA WPA poster, 1936. Barbershop vocal harmony is a style of a cappella close harmony, or unaccompanied vocal music, characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a primarily homorhythmic texture.
The quartet started out as an unnamed foursome, singing for community groups around Buffalo. The original members were tenor Vern Reed, an executive for the Tonawanda Boys' Club; [2] lead Al Shea, who was a City of Buffalo policeman; baritone Herschel Smith, a corporate executive; and bass Bill Spangenberg, a truck driver for a steel company.
The Town and Country Four were the first quartet to win internationally as the contest was held in Canada for the first time in 1963. Disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in cancellation of the 2020 and 2021 international contests, the only years in the society's 86-year history without one.
Main Street is a barbershop quartet that started singing as a group on March 20, 2011. [1]The quartet has won several awards, culminating in their 2017 win of the Barbershop Harmony Society's International Quartet Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada. [2]
Gas House Gang was a barbershop quartet that won the 1993 SPEBSQSA International Quartet Competition. They started singing as a group in 1987 in St. Louis Missouri. After winning the 1988 Central States District Competition in their first attempt, they began a steady climb up the International Competition ladder which culminated in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where they were awarded the 1993 ...
The quartet chose the name Ringmasters by flipping through an English dictionary and picking a word they liked. [3] Ringmasters decided to form their group after viewing the Simpsons episode involving a barbershop quartet. [3] Jakob's record for posting is 52 seconds. [2] [non-primary source needed] 2016 was the quartet's 10 year anniversary.