Harmony UK Podcast

News, interviews and fun from the 2025 convention in Harrogate of the Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers

Recorded at The Octagon, Sheffield during the 2025 convention of Sweet Adelines Region 31. Hear from Silhouette, the region's new Gold Medal Quartet plus Deke Sharon, Nicky Salt, Valerie Taylor, Alyson Cheney and members of medal-winning choruses Viva A Cappella, Lace City Chorus and Singing Unlimited.

Recorded at the European Barbershop Convention 2025 in Helsingborg, Sweden. Including contributions from members of Zero8, Meantime Chorus, A Cappella Company (Dachau), The Royal Harmonics, Mixed Nuts, The EntertainMen, London City Singers and others

A very special Barbershop concert recorded in Cardiff as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Great Western Chorus of Bristol. Featuring The Newfangled Four, GWC and three more quartets; In The Wings, Bagatelle and DV8. Your MC is Oli Goodall.

In this edition we look forward to a new chapter for Fortuity Quartet and look ahead to the 2024 LABBS Convention. There's the latest research into the history of gender-roles in Barbershop and we meet the UK chorus helping recreate the sounds of choral music as heard in the time of Henry VIII

Celebrating fifty years of organised British Barbershop with UK singers past and present at SING24 in Harrogate and special guests from the US Music City Chorus and Instant Classic Quartet

Join the audience in Leicester for a special fundraising concert to mark the 50th anniversary year of the British Association of Barbershop Singers. The concert features the first performance in several years for the BABS Quartet Champions Chorus. You'll also hear from past quartet gold-medallists Limelight and Sound Hypothesis and from the talented mixed-voice chorus Lux A Cappella. If you'd like to donate please visit: https://www.singbarbershop.com/pages/donate

Why do so many people spend time learning so many songs for a weekend of what's been described as quartet speed-dating? Come with us to visit the recent UK Harmony Brigade at Nottingham University and find out why so many are happy to go to extreme effort to join the fun.

In this 50th edition we check out the Barbershop Harmony scene in Norfolk and Suffolk, visiting the choruses Norwich Harmony, Fine City Chorus and the recently-formed East Coast Collective.

In this edition - Barbershop singers as a resource; We hear from singer and educator Tony Colosimo about his keynote address to BABS Harmony College. We ask what attendees thought of the new-look faculty and streams. And we visit Leicester and the Heart of England Chorus, a club with a long history and a vintage set of risers.

Join us for an exciting weekend of song at Warwick as we hear from Gold medal -winning quartet Sound Central, Champions Lace City Chorus and International Queens of Harmony The Ladies. There may also be the odd sea-shanty in the mix.

The White Rosettes, Meantime Chorus, In House and Limelight Quartets were all gold-medal winners at LABBS and BABS in 2022. Listen as they appear together for the first time, along with Trailblazers Quartet, at a concert in West Yorkshire featuring some of the very best of British Barbershop, and raising funds to compete in future international BHS contests in Louisville and Cleveland. The concert was recorded at Pudsey Civic Hall on April 22nd 2023.