Harmony UK Podcast

A sad farewell by Podcast about British Barbershop harmony singing

News, interviews and fun from the 2025 convention in Harrogate of the Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers

Recorded at BABS Convention 2025 in Bournemouth. Featuring The Ambassadors of Harmony, Amersham A Cappella, Cottontown, Lux A Cappella, The 1234 Quartet and many more. Plus David Wright talks about Barbershop's hidden history. And Conrad Godfrey of Sound Hypothesis explains how he and other singers have been helping put a fictional quartet on the Big Screen.

Recorded at The Octagon, Sheffield during the 2025 convention of Sweet Adelines Region 31. Hear from Silhouette, the region's new Gold Medal Quartet plus Deke Sharon, Nicky Salt, Valerie Taylor, Alyson Cheney and members of medal-winning choruses Viva A Cappella, Lace City Chorus and Singing Unlimited.

Recorded in Helsingborg, Sweden at the European Barbershop Convention 2025. With contributions from The Red Rosettes Chorus and quartets Fifth Element, Hot Ticket, Lady Barbalade, Trailblazers and The Light Fantastic

Recorded at the European Barbershop Convention 2025 in Helsingborg, Sweden. Including contributions from members of Zero8, Meantime Chorus, A Cappella Company (Dachau), The Royal Harmonics, Mixed Nuts, The EntertainMen, London City Singers and others

The latest from the UK's exciting Barbershop Harmony scene including; A world top-ten place at SAI Convention for Nottingham's Lace City Chorus. The Newfangled Four bring their distinctive brand of musical comedy to Wales. And why BABS has declared 2025 an "Year of Harmony".

A very special Barbershop concert recorded in Cardiff as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Great Western Chorus of Bristol. Featuring The Newfangled Four, GWC and three more quartets; In The Wings, Bagatelle and DV8. Your MC is Oli Goodall.

News and interviews recorded in Bournemouth at the Ladies' Association of British Barbershop Singers Annual Convention. Featuring chorus champions Amersham A Cappella, quartet champions Muddy Stilettos and many more.

In this edition we look forward to a new chapter for Fortuity Quartet and look ahead to the 2024 LABBS Convention. There's the latest research into the history of gender-roles in Barbershop and we meet the UK chorus helping recreate the sounds of choral music as heard in the time of Henry VIII

Join us for a South Coast celebration with Spinnaker Chorus and friends as hey mark 20 years of harmony with a party and a concert which includes Afterglow and High Tea.

Celebrating fifty years of organised British Barbershop with UK singers past and present at SING24 in Harrogate and special guests from the US Music City Chorus and Instant Classic Quartet

In this edition we meet two gold medal-winning Iberian quartets; Metropolitan Union of Barcelona and 351 from Lisbon. We look ahead to this year's convention in Sheffield of Sweet Adelines Region 31, and we hear the story of the legendary Schmitt Brothers, four celebrated singers whom some believe set the template for what it means to be an international champion quartet.

Join the audience in Leicester for a special fundraising concert to mark the 50th anniversary year of the British Association of Barbershop Singers. The concert features the first performance in several years for the BABS Quartet Champions Chorus. You'll also hear from past quartet gold-medallists Limelight and Sound Hypothesis and from the talented mixed-voice chorus Lux A Cappella. If you'd like...

As British Barbershop celebrates 50 years as an organised movement we travel to Reading to visit one of the founding clubs. BABS acting chair Shanna Wells looks ahead to convention celebrations and explains why this year's Harmony College may have to move mostly online. And we meet the quartet at the heart of a cliffhanger in Britain's favourite TV soap.

Why do so many people spend time learning so many songs for a weekend of what's been described as quartet speed-dating? Come with us to visit the recent UK Harmony Brigade at Nottingham University and find out why so many are happy to go to extreme effort to join the fun.

Hot Ticket, the first ever LABBS mixed-quartet champions discuss a year of sometimes nail-biting competition, their own concert and an exciting new podcast in which they meet other young quartets from around the world.

In this 50th edition we check out the Barbershop Harmony scene in Norfolk and Suffolk, visiting the choruses Norwich Harmony, Fine City Chorus and the recently-formed East Coast Collective.

The decision of the BABS Board to unilaterally try to introduce open contests to British Barbershop has proved to be controversial. In this special Harmony UK podcast we hear from members of the Boards of BABS and LABBS who offer their perspectives on what's happening and what it means for the future.

In this edition - Barbershop singers as a resource; We hear from singer and educator Tony Colosimo about his keynote address to BABS Harmony College. We ask what attendees thought of the new-look faculty and streams. And we visit Leicester and the Heart of England Chorus, a club with a long history and a vintage set of risers.

The British Association of Barbershop Singers returned to Bournemouth in their 49th year. Hear from contest winners The Cottontown Chorus and Trailblazers Quartet, as well as many others who sang beside the sea.

Join us for an exciting weekend of song at Warwick as we hear from Gold medal -winning quartet Sound Central, Champions Lace City Chorus and International Queens of Harmony The Ladies. There may also be the odd sea-shanty in the mix.

Previews of two conventions in May from Region 31 and BABS and a look back to the Spanish Association of Barbershop Singers convention in April. Plus how four familiar faces came together in a brand new quartet.

The White Rosettes, Meantime Chorus, In House and Limelight Quartets were all gold-medal winners at LABBS and BABS in 2022. Listen as they appear together for the first time, along with Trailblazers Quartet, at a concert in West Yorkshire featuring some of the very best of British Barbershop, and raising funds to compete in future international BHS contests in Louisville and Cleveland. The concert...

meet gold-medal-winners The White Rosettes Chorus and Limelight Quartet as they prepare for international Competition. And Scott Kitzmiller talks about the technique of resonance-matching and finding Barbershop on a bus.