Harmony UK Podcast

Listen to three features from the archives, all recorded at recent conventions with world-beating quartets Main Street and Classring, and Rasmus Krigström. director of the chorus Zero8..

How is the Barbershop community coping with the Coronavirus Lockdown? We hear from the director of an online virtual choir, the Chairman of BABS, and a singer from the Sweet Adelines chorus Singsational. There's also news of a brand new CD from LABBS gold medal quartet Avalon, and in a feature recorded before the pandemic hit the UK, we visit Birmingham to talk to members of MaleVox Chorus.

As concern grows over the spread of coronavirus the Barbershop world is having to consider whether it's possible to continue singing safely together. In this feature we talk to Ladies Chorus Cleeve Harmony about a recent coaching session and how they decided whether or not the day should go ahead.

Harmony UK Podcast takes to the road to sample Scotland's vibrant barbershop-harmony scene, with visits to Albacappella, The Rolling Hills Chorus, Silver City Singers and the internationally-renowned Forth Valley Chorus.

After 30 years singing with Edinburgh's Forth Valley Chorus and serving on the Region 31 management team, Elaine Hamilton is about to take up a post on the worldwide Management Board of Sweet Adelines International.

We hear about a new London-based production of Tom Brown's School Days and meet the musical director, Ralph Warman. Ralph is a former barbershop chorus singer who's been introducing both cast and audiences to the art-form.

Meet the New Generation of British Barbershop musical arrangers as they talk about their influences, their styles and their growing number of achievements. With contributions from Sam Hubbard, Hannah Briggs, Nick Bryant, Simon Arnott, James Whittick and Samuel Woolf.

Musical arranger Sam Hubbard talks about his inspiration, the songs he chooses and some of his highlights to date.

Listen to the members of Crossroads, one of the world's best-loved and most enduring and accomplished Barbershop quartets, as they coach fellow barbershoppers, talk about their own music, and perform "live" one of their most celebrated songs. Material recorded at the British Association of Barbershop Singers convention in Bournemouth, Sunday, May 26th 2019.

Listen to members of Scandinavian A Cappella legends The Real Group recorded at the British Association of Barbershop Singers convention - Bournemouth - May 2019.