Each
year the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber
Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA), now known as the
Barbershop Harmony Society, holds a convention and competition at
which barbershop quartets and choruses from all over the world are
invited to attend, participate, compete, and share fellowship in
song. In each year since the late 1940s, the Barbershop Harmony Society
has archived recordings of these competitions. These are actual live
recordings of the annual competition in the year stated. These tracks
are not cobbled together pieces of studio cuts but rather pure, unadulterated
live performances recorded as they happened with all of the coughs,
creaks, sniffles, whistles, hoots and hollers that go with such performances.
We hope you enjoy the music and artistry contained in these varied
examples of one of the truly American art forms. |
