26 Sep 2024

The battle of the barbershops

From Afternoons, 1:10 pm on 26 September 2024
Barbershop world champions Signature Quartet join Jesse Mulligan on Afternoons, alongside Antony Currington, chair of the New Zealand Barbershop Convention (right).

Barbershop world champions Signature Quartet join Jesse Mulligan on Afternoons, alongside Antony Currington, chair of the New Zealand Barbershop Convention (right). Photo: RNZ

More than 500 singers are about to gather in the capital for massive barbershop battle on a scale that Wellington hasn't seen in years.

Twelve choruses and twenty quartets will compete at the National Barbershop Convention between tomorrow and Saturday.

And bringing their star power to the show is the world champion Signature Quartet from the US.

Jesse is joined by the convention's chair, Antony Currington and Signature Quartet.