BABS - The British Association of Barbershop Singers is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Registered Charity Number 1080930) and is the largest organisation of barbershop singers outside of North America. We have more than 60 registered choruses (choirs) and 100 registered barbershop quartets across the country, including male voice ensembles and mixed voice ensembles.
LABBS - the Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers is one of three barbershop-singing organisations in the United Kingdom. Established in 1976, LABBS has grown to around 60 clubs and over 2200 members. In addition to our many clubs, we also have a national chorus, Coast to Coast, and our youth choruses, which bring singers together from across the organisation.
IABS - Irish Association of Barbershop Singers is the organisation which promotes the tradition of barbershop singing in Ireland. IABS was founded in Birr County Offaly in 1988 and the first Irish Barbershop Convention was held in the Marian Hall in Birr in 1989.
BHS - Barbershop Harmony Society. Founded in 1938 as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA), BHS preserves & extends the reach of a uniquely American close harmony musical art form whose roots lie in African-American improvisation and European harmony traditions.Thi
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