In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ( S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A ), and in 2004 rebranded itself and officially changed its public name to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ).

The Barbershop Harmony Society provides a highly organized competition structure for a cappella quartets and choruses singing in the barbershop style.

With about 2, 500 members in the United States and Canada, Harmony, Inc. uses the same rules in contest that the Barbershop Harmony Society uses.

* The Gentlemen Songsters The Lowell Chapter of The Barbershop Harmony Society-Causing Harmony In The Merrimack Valley.

* Contemporaneous with the Arts and Crafts Show weekend, The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. ( SPEBSQSA ), has a large regional contest and meeting.

* Barbershop Harmony – The Mills Brothers

Acoustix is a Texas-based quartet that won the 1990 International Quartet Championship of SPEBSQSA ( now Barbershop Harmony Society, or BHS ).

* Vocal Spectrum, the Barbershop Harmony Society's 2006 International Quartet Champions

* Singing Capital Chorus-Washington chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society

* Far Western District A geographical district of the Barbershop Harmony Society.

During the week of July 2 – 8, 2007, the arena hosted the International Convention and Contests of the Barbershop Harmony Society, a men's singing organization.

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* Marquis, 1995 champion quartet of the Barbershop Harmony Society SPEBSQSA

They are the 2004 Barbershop Harmony Society International Collegiate Quartet Champions, the 2006 Barbershop Harmony Society International Quartet Champions, and 2004 and 2009 Barbershop Harmony Society International Chorus Champions with the Ambassadors of Harmony.

According to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ), " Barbershop music features songs with understandable lyrics and easily singable melodies, whose tones clearly define a tonal center and imply major and minor chords and barbershop ( dominant and secondary dominant ) seventh chords that resolve primarily around the circle of fifths, while making frequent use of other resolutions.

became International Champions of the Barbershop Harmony Society in 2004 after six previous attempts at the international title.

The quartet won the International Quartet Championship of the Barbershop Harmony Society in 1993.

They were the 2003 Barbershop Harmony Society International Quartet Champion.

Realtime is a barbershop quartet that won the Barbershop Harmony Society's International Quartet Championship in 2005.

After winning the Johnny Appleseed District of the Barbershop Harmony Society competition that fall, they went on to the Barbershop Harmony Society's International contests, earning 10th place, 5th, 2nd, and finally the International Championship in Pittsburgh in 1994.

Inspired by the sight of Homer accidentally slicing Marge's hair off with hedge shears, they write a script titled " Little Barbershop of Horrors ", but their episode is rejected by Roger Meyers, head of Itchy & Scratchy International.

The Chapter has produced many members who have held high administrative offices in the International and District levels of the Barbershop Harmony Society.

Major movements in modern a cappella over the past century include Barbershop and doo wop.

Barbershop music is one of the few uniquely American art forms.

In 2009, Universal Pictures signed music video and film director Billie Woodruff ( Barbershop, Honey ) to direct the fifth film in the Bring It On series titled Bring It On: Fight to the Finish.

This is particularly common for Barbershop quartets and Gospel quartets.

Lee's thesis film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, was the first student film to be showcased in Lincoln Center's New Directors New Films Festival.

Barbershop quartets, such as this US Navy group, sing melodies together.

For an unrelated paradox in the theory of logical conditionals with a similar name, introduced by Lewis Carroll, see the Barbershop paradox.

In " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", Barney formed a barbershop quartet with Homer, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, and Seymour Skinner called the Be Sharps.

In 1986, the Be Sharps won a Grammy Award for Outstanding Soul, Spoken Word, or Barbershop Album of the Year.

Castellaneta has voiced Barney every time he has appeared in the series, with the exception of the episode " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", in which some of Barney's singing is provided by a member of The Dapper Dans, who recorded lines for all four members of the Be Sharps.

Male choirs differ from Barbershop choirs in that they are usually accompanied, often by but not restricted to a piano.

Male choirs are often larger than the Barbershop style partly because the foundation of the Barbershop style is the solo quartet sound.

Activities and events include Barbershop chorus, gospel music, good ol ' home cookin, handmade arts and crafts, street dance, frog jumping contest, terrapin derby, greased pig chase, a 4-mile run, parade, jam and jelly bake-off and of course peach and peach cobbler eating contests.

Continuing from the events of Barbershop 2, the series makes several minor changes.

Since then, she has had both leading and supporting roles in a multitude of films that received varied critical and box office receptions, including films such as Scary Movie 3, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, Taxi, Kung Faux, Beauty Shop, and Hairspray.

Nzinga has done a couple of television series, including a recurring role, as Vivian, on the Showtime series Barbershop, | Recently, she was listed in the credits under " Special Thanks " for the E!

Besides his production work, Brown also records as an artist himself, both for his own recordings ( including his 2004 single " I Can't Wait " from the Barbershop 2: Back in Business film soundtrack ), and on songs with collaborators such as Beyoncé and Big Boi ( on the latter's US # 1 and UK # 7 hit " The Way You Move ").

Peter Dorman was also an amateur lyric tenor in Chicago, performing with Golosa ( The University of Chicago Russian Choir ), the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of The University of Chicago, and Vestostertones Barbershop Quartet.

Merit: " Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads ", Spike Lee --- New York University.