Dealer's Choice is a
barbershop quartet
A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop style, characterized by four-part harmony without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella). The four voices are: the lead, the vocal part which typically carries t ...
that won the 1973
SPEBSQSA
The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA), is the first of several organizations to promote and preserve barbersho ...
international competition in
Portland, Oregon
Portland ( ) is the List of cities in Oregon, most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, ...
. They were the first group since 1952 to win the competition their first year entering – a feat not repeated until
Acoustix
Acoustix is a Dallas, Texas-based quartet that won the 1990 International Quartet Championship of SPEBSQSA (now Barbershop Harmony Society, or BHS). They have all, at different times, been members of the Dallas-based Vocal Majority chorus.
Acoust ...
did so in 1990.
The Dealer's Choice Award is given annually by the Barbershop Harmony Society to the highest-scoring quartet making its first appearance in the international competition, and was first awarded in 2009. In 2015, Dealer's Choice was inducted into the Barbershop Harmony Society Hall of Fame.
References
External links
AIC entry(archived)
Barbershop quartets
Barbershop Harmony Society
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