Sweet Adelines International

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Sweet Adelines International is a worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education and performances. This independent, nonprofit music education association is one of the world's largest singing organizations for women. The international membership of nearly 30,000 women, singing four-part a cappella harmony in English, includes choruses and quartets in most of the fifty United States as well as in the following countries: Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, Wales, the Netherlands There are also prospective choruses in Denmark, Greece, and United Arab Emirates.


2007 International Champion Quartet, SALT from Huddinge, Sweden

2007 International Champion Quartet, SALT from Huddinge, Sweden


Sweet Adelines International was founded in 1945 by Edna Mae Anderson of Tulsa, Oklahoma when she invited a group of women into her home to who were all interested in singing barbershop harmony. From that meeting grew the nucleus of what became Sweet Adelines International.

Within four years, the organization had grown to 1,500 members singing in 35 chapters and 60 quartets in 14 different states. They adopted bylaws, elected national officers and created a system for adjudicating national annual competitions to select the best women's barbershop quartet.

Sweet Adelines choruses and quartets perform four-part a cappella harmony, barbershop style. They have performed their style of music for professional sports events, Olympic ceremonies, with major symphonies, and on several national television shows.

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