Visit a Rehearsal

Are you a passionate singer who enjoys the challenge of improving your craft and sharing it with others? We would love to have you visit and sing with us. We rehearse every Thursday (except Thanksgiving) at the Leesburg United Methodist Church at 107 W. Market St in Leesburg. Our typical rehearsal runs from 7:00 to 9:00, and guests are always welcome. During the fall, rehearsals are mostly focused on holiday music in anticipation of our annual Holiday Show. In the spring, we usually focus on regular repertoire songs and the songs that we take to our annual contest.

We sing songs in the barbershop style. The barbershop style means that we sing in 4 parts: Tenor, Lead, Baritone, and Bass. Each part has its primary role. Typically, the Leads sing the melody of the song, and the other three parts sing harmony. Basses often set the beat and drive the rhythm and tempo. Tenors add sparkling high notes, and the baritones have juicy notes that add depth and harmonic interest. You might hear, "It's the baritone that makes it barbershop." 

Musical magic occurs when everyone is doing their part to sing in tune and with a unified approach to resonance, pronunciation, and other artistic elements: overtones are formed! Overtones are the harmonic notes that you can hear even though no one is singing them. Precision and practice of our four parts create the auditory illusion of more than four parts singing. Believe us, when you hear it, it makes the hair on your neck stand up. This is what's brought people into the hobby since 1938.

Here are some examples of what barbershop music can be like:


Above is Westminster Chorus perfoming their set that earned them the Gold Medal is 2019.


Even Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs and countless voice-over gigs) was a Barbershopper.

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