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...land, at the annual convention of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. Welliver has paid $20 to "Sing with the Champs" -- an opportunity for rank-and-file barbershoppers to sing briefly onstage with a championship quartet -- and he is paired with SPEBSQSA's 1986 gold medalists, a foursome of Missourians called Rural Route 4. He is dressed in the group's red bandanna, straw hat and work boots...
...movement that celebrates a unique song style: the four-part unaccompanied harmony that flourished at the turn of the century on porches, street corners, saloons and, yes, barbershops across America. In its early years, barbershop singing was pretty much a male preserve, but today both men and women perform. SPEBSQSA is an organization for men interested in preserving barbershop harmony; Sweet Adelines and Harmony Incorporated are similar groups for women...
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