barbershop

Join us for an afternoon of singing, with opportunities to join in yourself! We'll be featuring a variety of quartets and music and sharing our love of harmony with the PorchFest community.

Barbershop music is a uniquely American close harmony musical art form whose roots lie in African-American improvisation and European harmony traditions. It is a distinct style of unaccompanied (a cappella) vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a primarily homorhythmic​ (the same word sounds at the same time)​ texture.

the lidaBros are Boston's newest and (most likely) youngest Barbershop Quartet!

Not that that's saying much given the demographics of Barbershop Singing. Our band (can we call it that?) consists of four of Boston's most singer-y singers, all four of us having sung many songs in many places. We made our debut at the Greater Boston Vintage Society White Lightning Ball in April, and you can catch a newsreel of the footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKfI5zXWys

Also we're only 75% bro.

Bringing you old-timey shenanigans, donning ill-fitting straw boaters, and toting around a 1915 Columbia Grafanola, the lidaBros are here to stay, probably!