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If you even think you might
like to sing in an all-male chorus or
quartet, contact us (See CONTACT
PAGE.) An experienced barbershop
director will help you know if you have
the abilities to sing barbershop style.
You may have these abilities lying
latent in you because you simply have
never used them. Our director may
discover talents you do not even know
you have. Try! You have nothing to lose
and a lot of fun to gain.
A host of the wonderful benefits to
being a Barbershopper is found at
http://www.barbershop.org/document-center/category/1-membership-documents.html
On the above web page select Electronic
Press Kit - Membership. All the tools
you need to join our chapter are found
there.
Select the New Member and Transfer
application option. Please do not be
daunted by the complexity of the
application. It has grown up over the
years and is designed to handle just
about any challenge it meets -- other
than being simple. Do not fret. Our
chapter secretary will help you through
every little step in processing it. The
form is not really as daunting as it
looks.
To give you an idea of the extent of
help the national office provides to
you, even before you become a member,
study the information you will find on
just this one web page:
http://www.barbershop.org/sing/singing-skills.html
Joining our chapter is considered a
hobby by the Internal Revenue Service.
You might find it interesting to look at
the following eHow web page. It shows
you some of the tax advantages of this
hobby. eHow is located at
http://www.ehow.com/how_2183916_hobby-expenses-hobby-income.html
A letter from the IRS attesting
to the tax exempt status of our society
and all its chapters can be found at
http://www.barbershop.org/component/search/Internal%2BRevenue%2BSer.html?ordering=newest&searchphrase=all&areas[0]=plg_phocadlsearch
TO JOIN PLEASE CALL:
Morgan Smith, Chapter President
Residence
phone: 863 868-7268
or Cell phone: 443
618-1561
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