Contest & Judging Team

The British Association of Barbershop Singers (BABS) is a charitable organisation with music education as its goal. There are over 2400 members in 62 clubs and over 90 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 Contest and Judging team 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 organise and judge our choruses and quartets in competition.

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

Please find the results archive.

2019

2018

2017

2016

2010 - 2015

2000 - 2009

1990 - 1999

1980 - 1989

1974 - 1979

You may find the following link interesting. Please note that this is not a BABS supported resource.

BABS quartet contest entries

Large source of information about past and present quartets. March 2020
Provided by Aidan Brand.