Not Your Granddaddy's Barbershop Quartet
The world of Barbershop harmony is more diverse, more inclusive and more creative than ever. Marty Monson, the CEO of the Barbershop Harmony Society, talks about the joys and challenges of responding to the new energy in barbershop and the influx of diverse new styles and repertoire from around the world.
Marty Monson, the CEO of the Barbershop Harmony Society, joins us from Nashville to talk about one of the largest and most unique organizations in the entire choir world.
With Barbershop being sung in over thirty countries around the world, the close harmony art form is undergoing a renaissance.
“People of every age, of every background, every gender identity, every race, every sexual orientation, every political opinion or spiritual belief was born to sing, they just don’t know it yet”
Marty shares the joys and challenges of responding to the new energy in barbershop and the influx of diverse new styles and repertoire.
Marty Monson talked to Tom Metzger in the ChoirSuccess studios.
About Marty Monson
Marty Monson is CEO/Executive Director of the Barbershop Harmony Society, an international a cappella music organization headquartered in Nashville, TN with nearly 20,000 members in North America and fourteen other countries.
About the Barbershop Harmony Society
In times of conflict and exclusion, barbershop inspires us to blend, to cooperate, to create beauty and to love each other. Imagine its impact as a balm for wounded warriors, an intervention for at-risk youth, as a way to ease end-of-life transition, or even as a better way to rehabilitate people in our prison system.
Our vision of Everyone in Harmony means EVERYONE – people of every age, of every background, every gender identity, every race, every sexual orientation, every political opinion or spiritual belief.
Every person who loves to harmonize has a place in our family.
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