barbershop quartet

noun

plural barbershop quartets

: a group of four singers that are typically male and who sing in an old-fashioned style without instruments

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Loesser’s score is ambitious and diverse, with a discordant duet by Joe and Rosabella, lively Neapolitan-style songs by the Italian vineyeard workers, a beautifully harmonized barbershop quartet and some classic Broadway belter songs. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026

The afternoon will include a marching band, barbershop quartet and student history presentations in the gazebo area of the side landscape of the historic Kaske Home. — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2026

Instead, there was a giant chrysalis while a barbershop quartet sang the schedule out for 48 seconds. — Jayna Bardahl, New York Times, 15 May 2026

The Osmonds started as a barbershop quartet group in the late 1950s. — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026

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