The BYU-Idaho Activities Association offers students the opportunity to get together with fellow singers through the Barbershop Music Group.

“It’s fun, and I would definitely encourage people to come try it,” said participant Charlie Hansen, a senior from Satellite Beach, Fla.

Katie Roberts, a sophomore from Tremonton, Utah, and one of the two coordinators for the group, said that the group averages between eight to twelve women and four to eight men on a weekly basis.

Roberts said that the group rehearsals are laid back because people who usually come just want to get together and sing.

Hansen said that he enjoys singing Barbershop music with the group because it helps him relax.

Currently the women are working on three different pieces and the men are working on two pieces to perform at future performances. The group plans to perform for the local nursing home and they also hope to perform in quartets or even have a chorus prepared for the Barbershop Festival in January.

Roberts said her favorite part of directing the group is “watching how [the group] can begin a song they have never seen before at the beginning of the rehearsal and by the rehearsal’s end the chords are beginning to lock and you’re really getting magic.”

Roberts said that the Barbershop Music Group is a non-audition group, anyone is welcome to come and no background in barbershop music is required.

“It’s really not that big of a time commitment, and it’s so much fun and such a good way to network and meet new people,” Roberts said.

The Barbershop Music Group meets 7 p.m. every Tuesday in Room 248 of the Eliza R. Snow Building.