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Musical harmony comes to East Tennessee
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Knoxville welcomes more than 1,000 barbershop quartet and chorus members for the annual Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA) Dixie District Spring Convention March 23-24 at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium.
This weekend, attendees will participate in meetings and barbershop quartet singing competitions, concluding Saturday night with quartet finals and a “Showcase of Champions” beginning at 8 p.m. The convention is open to the public and tickets will be sold at the door for $13 per day.
The SPESBSQSA, Inc. was founded in 1938 and is the world’s largest all-male singing society. The association has more than 31,000 members in more than 820 chapters in the United States and Canada. The Dixie District includes Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
Knoxville has hosted the SPESBSQSA, Inc. Dixie District Spring Convention since 2002. The SPESBSQSA, Inc. plans to move its headquarters from Kenosha, Wis. to Nashville this spring.
For more information on SPESBSQSA, call (865) 876-7464 or visit www.barbershop.org.
The KTSC projects that the 2007 SPEBSQSA, Inc. Dixie Spring Convention will have a local economic impact of $722,200.
