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We get the wonderful chance to attempt an almost serious chat with BHS International Quartet Champion, Coach, Judge and Barbershop comedy legend, Rick LaRosa.

It's our 50th episode! And what better day to commemorate that, than on Barbershop Quartet Day! What is Barbershop Quartet Day? Well we talk about exactly that, as well as sharing barbershop stories from around the world! This is the audio from our Facebook Live event.

We chat to Quartet medalist, Chorus medalist, International Representative, Director, Arranger and Sweet Adelines legend, Glenda Lloyd about all manner of things, including our "love" for Zoom "rehearsals"...

Richard chats to The Idea of North's Nick Begbie about his start in music, lessons learned along the way, and of course his barbershop days with Four To The Bar

Richard and Ash have a little too much fun as they catch up and reminisce with Director, Coach, International Chorus Champion, Vocal Majority Section Leader, Barbershop Harmony Society Singing Category judge, proud Texan and great friend Eddie Martinez

We talk to Barbershop Harmony Australia Membership VP, Paul Adams about BHA's plans for 2020 and beyond!

Everything is cancelled! Or is it? Richard and Ash discuss the state of the world and how barbershoppers are dealing with it, with some quality insight from very good friend of the show, Jen Howson.

We chat to AGBJ Music Judge, accomplished arranger, quartetter, bass singer, meme tshirt wearer and MD of The Baden Street Singers, Nick Schurmann!

Special international guest Deke Sharon gets the GMBHA treatment!

Richard was lucky enough to steal an incredible amount of time with the one and only, Rob Mance! Rob answers YOUR questions in this information overload of an interview.

Richard gets to have a chat with current BHA Quartet Champs The Collective!

Richard and Ash take the opportunity during a break at Harmony Academy talk to Steve Scott and find out as much as possible about this mysterious Vocal Pedagogy (among many other things) dude!

History of BHA - Daniel Millgate As part of Richard's History of Barbershop classes at Harmony Academy, one of the highlights is being able to interview someone who has a lot of barbershop history, such as 4 time BHA Quartet Gold Medalist, International Quartet Representative and current BHA President, Dan Millgate.

We recap the event that was the 2019 Barbershop Harmony Festival in Hobart before chatting to some people around Harmony Academy

Richard is in Christchurch, NZ judging BHNZ's national contests and got to catch up with international guest quartet, 2018 BHS Quartet Champ, After Hours.

Richard and Ash were both in Adelaide for Kieran O'Dea's wedding to the lovely Kirsten and couldn't pass up the opportunity to talk to Director, Jonathan Bligh, and John Khammash of Festival Statesmen Chorus, your 2018 Barbershop Harmony Australia Chorus champions

Richard and Ash look ahead to the upcoming BHA Festival in Hobart!

The Newfangled Four are in Australia and Ash got to sit down with them and talk about their trip, the quartet and a little bit about the Westminster Chorus

We get to do some serious debriefing about BHSSLC with Barbershop Harmony Society Singing Category Judge, 2007 Collegiate Quartet Champ, Lead of two time Top Ten quartet Da Capo, Associate director of The Alexandria Harmonizers, and founder of Chorall: Vocal Resources for ALL Voices, Tony Colosimo

Join Ash and his quartet, The Electric Barbercats, during their time at the Barbershop Harmony International Convention in Salt Lake City to get a feel for what it might be like being a competing quartet at the big show.

Richard and Ash get excited about the upcoming Barbershop Harmony Society International Convention in Salt Lake City and run through some of their predictions and highlights before getting into a bit of a discussion about the proposal put forward by BHS regarding how contest may look in the future...

Richard and Ash delve into what's different about Parkside Harmony with their Artistic Director, multiple International Chorus Gold Medalist (Westminster and Masters of Harmony) Lead of current 3rd Place International Quartet Bronze Medalist, Throwback and Lead of 2008 International Quartet Champ, OC Times, Sean Devine.

Richard and Ash get chatting to Nicholas DiLorenzo from the Let's Talk Barbershop podcast. Nick wanted to know more about BHA and what goes on down here, and we were more than happy to talk about ourselves! Go and listen to Nick's podcast, he has great interviews with some big names and is really getting into the nitty gritty in the lead up the the 2019 BHS International Competition in Salt Lake C...

Richard is flying solo and makes his way into an Obsession rehearsal to talk to Sweet Adelines Region 34's 3rd Place and International Wildcard qualifying quartet about who they are, how they got here and where they're heading.

Richard and Ash are in sunny Queensland for the Sunshine Region Convention and while there got to chat to 2 time BHA Quartet Gold Medalist and BHA Marketing VP, The Daniel Beckitt! This episode also includes our brand new theme song, arranged by Nick Schurmann, edited by Ben Catt, lyrics edited by Ben Catt and Ash Schofield, recorded by Ben Catt and Ash Schofield, mixed by Ben Catt.