Church Choir Hats

Singing in a church choir is one of the most common group activities in America. More than 54 million Americans sing in choral groups, about 17 percent of adults, and of the roughly 270,000 choruses in North America, around 216,000 are religious. Faith-based choruses make up 68.5 percent of adult singers. That is a lot of people in robes on Sunday morning, and every one of them knows the voice-part jokes. This collection wears them. The soprano boast has the world revolving around her, which riffs on the old light-bulb joke where she holds the bulb and the world turns around her. The tenor line plays on the section's thin numbers, the alto does not do melody, and the bass holds up the whole choir. Add HE WHO SINGS PRAYS TWICE, the line often attributed to St. Augustine and posted on choir room signs, MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE, and a handbell design for ringers, who ring bells that date to the English handbells P.T. Barnum is credited with bringing to the US in the 1840s. Every hat is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. It is a ready gift for the director at Christmas cantata or Easter, or for the singer in the second row.