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Richard chats to Mike Bagby about his life in Barbershop and gets an insight from Gary Steinkamp about experiencing Midtown's Spider-Pig from the judging pit.

Richard Reeve is let loose in Louisville at the Barbershop Harmony Society's International Convention!

We chat to Sweet Adelines Australia's most recent Champion MD and all around inspiring, Lea Baker

The Sweet Adelines Region 34 convention was on down the road from Richard so he went along and did his thing!

Ash has a yarn with 4 top blokes, Ian, Adrian, Dan and Richard, who happen to be 2005, 2009, 2011 BHA quartet champs, 2009, 2011 and 2012 BHS international representatives, Alliance!

A series of short chats with members of Boulevard Harmony as they reflect on their experience in a chorus that took a less traditional approach to Hobart 2022

A Queenslander goes to Perth to sit next to a West Australian to talk to a Tasmanian who lived in Queensland for a while but who now lives in Canada and is a BHS Music Judge and MD of both Toronto Northern Lights and Grand Harmony Chorus, Andrew Carolan.

We chat to BHA legend Michael Donnelly

We're together again! Richard and Ash wrap up an awesome Festival over dinner, a walk through Hobart and a drive to the airport. Featuring interviews and the sounds of barbershop being back baby!!!

Richard has a late night, somewhat impromptu but wonderfully insightful chat with members of Gotham Chorus

Richard has a great chat to David McEachern about his personal journey leading up to his input into some of the more iconic BHS contest performances we've ever seen.

Part 1 of 3! BHS International is back and Richard Reeve has got the mic out and up in barbershoppers' faces! Hear what Marty Monson, Erin Harris, Chad Bennett, Rick Taylor and 2022 Varsity Champs, The Clementones, have to say about it.

Part 2 of Richard Reeve's Roving Reporting across the Sunshine Region's Barbershop Season!

Richard Reeve chats to Qld barbershoppers across two weekends of barbershop events. Part 1 takes place during Vocalescence's continually delayed show weekend!

Richard and Ash interview themselves as members of 2013 BHA Quartet Champ, TLA

Richard's flying solo and touring a wall of memories with BHA life member and 2018 BHA Medal Recipient, Mel McMichael

Richard catches up with BHA Champ Quartet Blindside to see what's the tea, over some tea. Stay to the end for a special Blindside X Boston Common mashup

We have a quick chat to BHA Quartet Medalist, BHA Chorus Champion, Festival Statesmen Director and "other music legend", Jono Bligh

We talk to BHS International Chorus Medalist, Voices In Harmony Assistant Director, BHA Quartet Medalist, Vox Canvas Director, AGBJ Singing Judge, one of our most goodest buddies, and Mr "One more tag, it's a quick one (it was not a quick one)", Rob Sequeira!

We get the wonderful chance to attempt an almost serious chat with BHS International Quartet Champion, Coach, Judge and Barbershop comedy legend, Rick LaRosa.

It's our 50th episode! And what better day to commemorate that, than on Barbershop Quartet Day! What is Barbershop Quartet Day? Well we talk about exactly that, as well as sharing barbershop stories from around the world! This is the audio from our Facebook Live event.

We chat to Quartet medalist, Chorus medalist, International Representative, Director, Arranger and Sweet Adelines legend, Glenda Lloyd about all manner of things, including our "love" for Zoom "rehearsals"...

Richard chats to The Idea of North's Nick Begbie about his start in music, lessons learned along the way, and of course his barbershop days with Four To The Bar

Richard and Ash have a little too much fun as they catch up and reminisce with Director, Coach, International Chorus Champion, Vocal Majority Section Leader, Barbershop Harmony Society Singing Category judge, proud Texan and great friend Eddie Martinez

We talk to Barbershop Harmony Australia Membership VP, Paul Adams about BHA's plans for 2020 and beyond!

Everything is cancelled! Or is it? Richard and Ash discuss the state of the world and how barbershoppers are dealing with it, with some quality insight from very good friend of the show, Jen Howson.

We chat to AGBJ Music Judge, accomplished arranger, quartetter, bass singer, meme tshirt wearer and MD of The Baden Street Singers, Nick Schurmann!

Special international guest Deke Sharon gets the GMBHA treatment!

Richard was lucky enough to steal an incredible amount of time with the one and only, Rob Mance! Rob answers YOUR questions in this information overload of an interview.

Richard gets to have a chat with current BHA Quartet Champs The Collective!

Richard and Ash take the opportunity during a break at Harmony Academy talk to Steve Scott and find out as much as possible about this mysterious Vocal Pedagogy (among many other things) dude!

History of BHA - Daniel Millgate As part of Richard's History of Barbershop classes at Harmony Academy, one of the highlights is being able to interview someone who has a lot of barbershop history, such as 4 time BHA Quartet Gold Medalist, International Quartet Representative and current BHA President, Dan Millgate.

We recap the event that was the 2019 Barbershop Harmony Festival in Hobart before chatting to some people around Harmony Academy

Richard is in Christchurch, NZ judging BHNZ's national contests and got to catch up with international guest quartet, 2018 BHS Quartet Champ, After Hours.

Richard and Ash were both in Adelaide for Kieran O'Dea's wedding to the lovely Kirsten and couldn't pass up the opportunity to talk to Director, Jonathan Bligh, and John Khammash of Festival Statesmen Chorus, your 2018 Barbershop Harmony Australia Chorus champions

Richard and Ash look ahead to the upcoming BHA Festival in Hobart!

The Newfangled Four are in Australia and Ash got to sit down with them and talk about their trip, the quartet and a little bit about the Westminster Chorus

We get to do some serious debriefing about BHSSLC with Barbershop Harmony Society Singing Category Judge, 2007 Collegiate Quartet Champ, Lead of two time Top Ten quartet Da Capo, Associate director of The Alexandria Harmonizers, and founder of Chorall: Vocal Resources for ALL Voices, Tony Colosimo

Join Ash and his quartet, The Electric Barbercats, during their time at the Barbershop Harmony International Convention in Salt Lake City to get a feel for what it might be like being a competing quartet at the big show.

Richard and Ash get excited about the upcoming Barbershop Harmony Society International Convention in Salt Lake City and run through some of their predictions and highlights before getting into a bit of a discussion about the proposal put forward by BHS regarding how contest may look in the future...

Richard and Ash delve into what's different about Parkside Harmony with their Artistic Director, multiple International Chorus Gold Medalist (Westminster and Masters of Harmony) Lead of current 3rd Place International Quartet Bronze Medalist, Throwback and Lead of 2008 International Quartet Champ, OC Times, Sean Devine.

Richard and Ash get chatting to Nicholas DiLorenzo from the Let's Talk Barbershop podcast. Nick wanted to know more about BHA and what goes on down here, and we were more than happy to talk about ourselves! Go and listen to Nick's podcast, he has great interviews with some big names and is really getting into the nitty gritty in the lead up the the 2019 BHS International Competition in Salt Lake City

Richard is flying solo and makes his way into an Obsession rehearsal to talk to Sweet Adelines Region 34's 3rd Place and International Wildcard qualifying quartet about who they are, how they got here and where they're heading.

Richard and Ash are in sunny Queensland for the Sunshine Region Convention and while there got to chat to 2 time BHA Quartet Gold Medalist and BHA Marketing VP, The Daniel Beckitt! This episode also includes our brand new theme song, arranged by Nick Schurmann, edited by Ben Catt, lyrics edited by Ben Catt and Ash Schofield, recorded by Ben Catt and Ash Schofield, mixed by Ben Catt.

Ash sits down with AGBJ Music Judge, BHA Education Faculty Member, BHA Quartet Bronze Medalist, 3 Time BHA Youth Quartet Champion, BHA Collegiate Quartet International Representative, Adelaide Vocal Union Director and fellow burger enthusiast, Kieran O'Dea!

Richard and Ash discuss the upcoming BHA Regionals before getting into what it's like to be an MD of a chorus.

We get to chat to BHA and BHS International Champ John Newell

Ash was lucky enough to get Dan Millgate, Ian Mulholland and Mike Donnelly, the current and two previous BHA Presidents respectively, around the same table to hear some stories and more!

Richard talks 'shop with 2 time BHA Quartet Champion Blindside's Michael Webber

Merry Christmas!! We're back after a bit of an unintentional break! We get chatting about some of the goings on around the barbershop world and what to do leading into a new year.

We get to hear about some of the history of BHA from legend Ian Mulholland... We could list all his accomplishments here but there is only so much space on the internet...