Our purpose

We perform to a live audience every three or four weeks.

Our client base includes retirement homes and villages.

Chorus members are expected learn their words and notes between rehearsal sessions. Learning tracks and scores are available in the member's area of this website for that purpose. You don't have to read music - that's a skill which will develop with time.

Our performances are sung from memory. This gives us the space to perform rather than just sing.

Singing a list of 12 to 15 songs from memory is obviously a challenge. We want you on stage with us from the very beginning. At first we allow you to have the score in hand. We know that you can hardly wait to get rid of the music!

Becoming A Member

Joining The Silvertones is easy.

Come along to one of our rehearsals to see if you like what we do.

See if you can find your place amongst us. Can you actually hold your notes? Can you sing against the other parts?

You may not be able to do all these things straight away. Are you prepared to persist?

ps. Please contact us by email first to make sure where and when we will be rehearsing this week.

The Organisation

The Silvertones chorus is a part of the Southern Tasmania Harmony Club.

The Club supports a number of choruses and quartets.

Members of STHC can be a part of more than one ensemble within the Club.

National

The barbershop movement has a national organisation - Barbershop Harmony Australia.

All members of the Club are also members of the national organisation.

BHA website

International

The movement is established in a number of countries around the world.

You can sing barbershop in New Zealand, Great Britain, Ireland, Holland, Scandinavia and more, even in Tokyo.

The Barbershop Harmony Society

The peak of the movement is to be found in the US and Canada.

Use this link to have a look at their offerings.BHS