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Doctors of Harmony, from Elkhart, Indiana, is a Barbershop quartet that won the 1947 SPEBSQSA international competition. References. AIC entry (archived)
A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards. A barber's place of work is known as a barbershop or the barber's. Barbershops have been noted places of social interaction and public discourse since at least classical antiquity. In some instances, barbershops were also public forums.
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.
Franz Anton Maulbertsch's The Quack (c. 1785) shows barber surgeons at work. Bloodletting set of a barber surgeon, beginning of 19th century, Märkisches Museum Berlin. The barber surgeon, one of the most common European medical practitioners of the Middle Ages, was generally charged with caring for soldiers during and after battle.
This article lists the Barbershop Harmony Society's international quartet champions by the year in which they won. Quartets can win only once, though up to two members may appear together in another quartet and compete again.
Once the cut is clean (assuming it isn’t bleeding profusely — more on that in a moment), Hall says you can “apply a thin layer of petroleum jelly like Vaseline or Aquaphor.”
Marquis is a barbershop quartet that won the 1995 SPEBSQSA international competition. Originating from the Cincinnati-Dayton area, they won the championship less than two years after they formed. Their lead singer, Randy Chisholm, was the first Canadian-born singer in a champion SPEBSQSA quartet.
The Mid-Atlantic District is one of 17 districts of the Barbershop Harmony Society [1] (formerly known as SPEBSQSA or the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America).