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The British Association of Barbershop Singers, BABS, is a charitable organisation with music education as its goal. Registered Charity Number: 1080930
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The British Association of Barbershop Singers (BABS) is a charitable organisation with music education as its goal. There are over 2000 members in 59 clubs and over 70 registered quartets across the UK. Every year a significant proportion of these clubs and quartets take part in contest culminating in the Annual Convention in the Spring. If you're going to have a contest, you have to have judges!

The Guild of Judges is an important resource for BABS. The judges are recognised experts in the main aspects of barbershop, namely singing, music and performance. They undertake bi-annual training at specialist seminars to be able to judge our choruses and quartets in competition.

This site provides current information about the Guild including a directory of members, contest results, rules and reference information for BABS members and other people with an interest in barbershop.

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new Quartet Prelim results
Contest results for National Quartet Prelims, Seniors Quartet Final and Youth Quartet Final.
Updated: 20 November 2011
  All Llandudno contest results
Scoring summaries for all contests and a downloadable PDF file containing the detailed scoring analysis.
Added: 30 May 2011
  New contest rules version 9.3 available
This version tidies up some administrative details and are valid from March 2011
Added: 23 February 2011
  Guide for New Quartets
A guide for new and not so new quartets to help you get organised. It covers rehearsal techniques, coaching, singouts, contest and even making a CD. Invaluable!
Updated: 3 November 2010