Barbershop Music Appreciation Day - Jul 13, 2022

77 years of Sweet Adelines! Let's Sing! 

Barbershop Music Appreciation Day commemorates the founding of Sweet Adelines International on July 13, 1945.

It was was established on July 13, 2005 to honor the 60th anniversary of the day that Edna Mae Anderson founded Sweet Adelines in 1945 in Tulsa, OK.

Barbershop singing is an a cappella (voices only, no instruments) singing style with roots in African-American improvisational singing of the 1800s. Barbershop Music Appreciation Day commemorates the founding of Sweet Adelines International. SAI is a worldwide women’s singing organization committed to advancing a cappella singing in the barbershop style through opportunities in education, performance and competition. Sweet Adelines is one of the world’s largest singing organizations for women, with a membership of nearly 21,000 in 525 choruses and over 900 quartets across the globe.

We encourage all harmony makers to help us celebrate by getting out in your local community to share your love of barbershop music with everyone you know! 

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Photo: The Cracker Jills - 1957 - Sweet Adelines Queens of Harmony