Harmony UK Podcast

As LABBS prepares to mark 40 years of Ladies' Barbershop in Britain with a special convention, listen to Sally McLean, musical director of gold medalists The White Rosettes discuss what makes a champion chorus and hear extracts from two songs, "Skyfall" and "Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho". This item was first recorded for Harmony UK Podcast at BABS Convention - May 2016.

Alan Goldsmith, BABS music services director, and Joe Cerutti, director of Outreach for the Barbershop Harmony Society, talk about musical directors, the present shortage in the Barbershop world, and how to attract the best for the future. This is a longer, unedited version of a feature included in edition 6 of Harmony UK podcast

Hear the members of Round Midnight talk about the things quartets need to know. Preview the exciting events planned for LABBS 40th anniversary convention. Listen to Alan Goldsmith and Joe Cerutti discuss the future for chorus musical directors, and find out about the birth of a new barbershop movement in France.

Finest Hour, BABS gold medal quartet for 2016 talk about how they came together, the songs they love and that big win at Convention in Harrogate.

Vocal Dimension prepare for world-class competition at Sweet Adelines International Convention in Las Vegas. David Sangster, MD with Forth Valley Chorus talks about gold medals, stage-fright and Christmas, and Sean Bui, new director of The Royal Harmonics gives us his first impressions of the Barbershop Harmony style.

The spirit and atmosphere of BABS Harmony college captured on a first visit in August 2015

Main Street Quartet talk to Harmony UK Podcast at BABS2016 by Podcast about British Barbershop harmony singing

News from the world of British Barbershop Harmony Singing including interviews with gold medal quartets Finest Hour and Acoustix, and Sally McLean, Musical Director of The White Rosettes chorus.

News, views and interviews from the annual convention of the British Association of Barbershop Singers, featuring gold medalists The Cottontown Chorus, Main Street Quartet and Strictly Barbershop, winners of the UK's first mixed-voice barbershop chorus contest.

News and views from the exciting world of UK Barbershop harmony singing.