 Headquarters of the Barbershop Harmony Society in Nashville, Tennessee Image by The Peep Holes (Wikipedia Takes Nashville team), via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
The Western Ambassadors QuartetBarbershop Harmony Society Barbershop Harmony Society Barbershop music organization The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA), is the first of several organizations to promote and preserve barbershop music as an art form. Founded by Owen C. Cash and Rupert I. Hall in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1938,[2] the organization quickly grew, promoting barbershop harmony among men of all ages. As of 2014, just under 23,000 men in the United States and Canada were members of this organization, whose focus is on a cappella music. The international headquarters was in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for fifty years before moving to Nashville, Tennessee, in 2007. In June 2018,… (Source: Wikipedia)
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