It's time to learn about barbershop

 Well, I did a thing.

I saw an advertisement for a barbershop group on social media. They were hosting a free concert and they were bringing in a famous (ish) group to come perform as well. I put it on my calendar and decided that I would try to go. I assumed my daughters would go with me so I didn't invite anyone or tell anyone about it.

I made a few other assumptions as well. When I saw the post I didn't look up the group that has doing it, I assumed it was a group that I had seen do an opener at a choir concert a few months before. Because why would there be more than one barbershop group in our community?

The day of the concert my daughters both made other plans and bailed on me. My husband decided that he would go with me if we went out to dinner first. Dinner and a show?! I was absolutely in. My sister said she might join us too. I told both of them that this was a really cool group that I had seen. I hyped it up. In all honesty, I saw the group perform one song in a high school cafeteria before I went to a kids choral show. I'm not sure my memory was great on their skill level...

We arrived early and realized that this event was going to be very sparsely attended and that the median age range for attendees was at least 10 years older than us. The group came out on stage and I realized it was a choir group that did barbershop and not the group that I thought it would be, and had told everyone that it would be. Whoops!

This group sounded amazing. They broke out into 4 man barbershop groups for some of the songs. I had no idea that I like barbershop until this moment! I felt like I was at a competition in the movie Pitch Perfect. I was confused and distracted by the theatrics that went with some of the songs, but the music was on point. 

Then they brought in a group from the Portland, OR area that competes in barbershop and things really escalated. This group had matching outfits, their theatrics all made sense and added to the "show", and they sounded really good.

I listened. I sang along. I beamed. It turns out I really like barbershop music. I added attending a competition to my bucket list before the show had even finished. Do you listen to barbershop? Who do you like? Need a buddy to go see a show with you? Because I am so in. But also, I have so many questions. I feel a deep dive into all things barbershop in my near future.