Barbershop looks like The Sopranotes
As the Barbershop Harmony Society becomes more expansive in its demographic range — in age, gender, and heritage — the rest of the world is catching up with barbershop today.
To anyone who's been watching barbershop events the last few years — distinct conventions, schools, major conventions — a quartet like The Sopranotes look like... Barbershoppers. People who love to sing.
But as the rest of the world comes to us with traditional expectations, this young quartet is still pretty fresh.
That's why we love this story from the Los Altos Town Crier, which praises the young quartet for having “broken boundaries within the barbershop quartet community, performing a style of music that’s not known to be popular among people their age.”
“Along with being involved in a musical genre that’s primarily performed by adult males, the teens are all girls of color. ‘It felt really good, breaking into this new demographic,’ Kaela Nguyen said. ‘This is so different, because it’s reaching out to this entirely different age group, and it really changes perspective and gets you out of your bubble.’”
