Forget about old-fashioned sleeve garters, derby hats and corny costumes. When the Aurora ... for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America was founded in ...

Barbershop quartets were often used in front of the curtain to entertain while other acts were setting up. In order to be seen by those in the “cheap seats” they donned distinctive costumes.

Barbershop quartets have gone modern. Oh, they still have that close-knit harmony and unaccompanied singing style. They still like to wear costumes and use comic gestures. And they still ham it up.

Still plenty willing to celebrate, Olson epitomized a barbershop quartet fan as he took in yet ... and the New Tricks delight in the music and costume of the 1890s. Unlike Olson, three of them ...

Horne organizes the group and manages their gigs while Stern makes the quartet’s costumes. For Horne, barbershop singing is set apart from other four-part harmony singing by its “tight ...

MONTAGNE: Now, you may not be in costume - in dress - right now ... But a lot of modern-day barbershop quartets are wearing regular tuxedos. Some groups wear tails. It's four guys dressed ...

The contest is all that remains of what was once a large, period barbershop quartet festival, including a parade, costumes and a staged train robbery. --Dillon Pilorget 503-294-5927 ...

"We wear costumes, we use facial expressions and ... but during rehearsals the compositions become works in progress. The barbershop performance "season" is in the spring and the fall.

The barbershop quartet at Boiling Springs High School is so new, its singers have yet to settle on a costume or practice a few dance steps. Yet they are ready to perform such timeless classics as ...