The Barbershop Harmony Society, Sweet Adelines International, and Harmony Inc. host educational events including Harmony University, Directors University, and the International Educational Symposium, and international contests and conventions, recognizing international champion choruses and quartets.

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 ).

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.

In March 2010, two of the college a cappella groups, Fitz Barbershop and The Sirens, reached the finals of a nationwide competition, The Voice Festival UK, judged by composer John Rutter.

Barbershop choruses must sit out for two consecutive years after winning, so the Masters have remained undefeated in competition since 1990.

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.

This is particularly common for Barbershop quartets and Gospel quartets.

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.

Also this is the headquarters for Martin Engineering, Lindbeck Auto Sales and Mike's Barbershop ( Mike has been cutting hair for over sixty years and has never raised the price of his cuts which is $ 1. 75 ).

Wilburn's Barbershop, the Lenoir City Public Library, a Mexican Grocery, TV Readers magazine, Habitat for Humanity, as well as several apartments were destroyed by the blaze.

The Sirens, an all-female group, won the award for Outstanding Musicality, whilst Fitz Barbershop were joint winners of the prestigious Award for Outstanding Performance.

Barbershop vocal harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era ( 1940s – present ), is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture.

Barbershop also proved to be a star-making vehicle for acting newcomers Eve and Michael Ealy.

* Ice Cube interview for Barbershop

The Barbershop Harmony Society runs annual competitions for barbershop choruses and quartets.

He is perhaps most known for his live-action roles in such films as Crash, There's Something About Mary, Barbershop and Men at Work.

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!

Many lauded the use of Starr ; for instance, IGN ranked his performance in the episode, along with Paul McCartney's performance in " Lisa the Vegetarian " and George Harrison's performance in " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", as the tenth best guest appearance in The Simpsons < nowiki >'</ nowiki > history.

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 ").

The Be Sharps performed the song at the Statue of Liberty's centennial in 1986, and they later won a Grammy Award for Outstanding Soul, Spoken Word, or Barbershop Album of the Year for Meet The Be Sharps.

In its original American broadcast, " Homer's Barbershop Quartet " finished 30th in the ratings for the week of September 27 to October 3, 1993, with a Nielsen rating of 12. 7, translating to 11, 963, 400 households.

She gathered a group of women who wanted to participate in the " chord-ringing, fun-filled harmony " that their husbands, members of the men ’ s Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America ( SPEBSQSA ), were singing.

The original " Heart of My Heart ," so longed for in the 1926 song, is also known as " The Story of the Rose ," and was written by Andrew Mack ( 1863 – 1931 ) in 1899, according to the Barbershop Harmony Society.

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

* Barbershop music – four-part a cappella ( in close harmony )

* Barbershop music, an a cappella musical style

The term Key Note comes from the practice of a cappella, often Barbershop singers, playing a note before singing.

There was also an a cappella cover of the song by Cedric the Entertainer and Avant figures in a gag sequence in the 2004 MGM film Barbershop 2: Back in Business.