Barbershop & A Cappella Singer Hats

Barbershop and a cappella singers are devoted, social and happy to laugh at themselves. The Barbershop Harmony Society reports approximately 14,000 members in the U.S. and Canada and about 660 choruses, and Sweet Adelines International, founded in Tulsa in 1945, counts about 30,000 members and more than 1,200 registered quartets. A tag is the last few bars of a song, the coda and the big finish, and tag singing is brief, satisfying harmony that singers can learn in minutes and share with complete strangers. The baritone, as the cliche has it, gets all the left-over notes. And anyone who has watched Pitch Perfect knows that Aubrey says "aca-" before nearly every word. This collection puts that world on a dad hat. A CAPPELLA, BARBERSHOP QUARTET and SWEET ADELINE are the plain badges. The bits cover the bari who sings the note nobody else wanted, the singer who skips the song to sing the tag, four part harmony with one part ego, a mouth that is the whole band, the beatboxer holding down boots and cats, and the quartet still looking for three more guys. ACA-AWESOME carries the Pitch Perfect prefix. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to rehearsal, or give one to the baritone in your life.