Canadian Showtime Chorus

Canadian Showtime Chorus® is a competitive women’s singing group, specializing in 4 part a cappella harmonies in the barbershop style. Barbershop is the “the blackbelt of a cappella singing”, according to the producer of the Pitch Perfect Trilogy, and a cappella guru Deke Sharon. A chartered member of Sweet Adelines International (SAI), Canadian Showtime Chorus ranks in the top 18 of more than 500 choruses worldwide.

Canadian Showtime Chorus draws its members from across the city of Ottawa and the surrounding areas. We have members from Prescott, Smith Falls, Carleton Place, Rockland, Arnprior, Kemptville, Merrickville and on the Quebec side of the river from Gatineau and Cantley. Our members range in age from 15 to “I’m not telling”, with membership open to women 13 years of age and up. We have teenagers, young adults, new mothers, working women as well as those who have retired.

The Chorus repertoire includes classic barbershop arrangements as well as contemporary pieces. Barbershop singing specializes in the unaccompanied singing of popular songs in which four voices move in close, highly chromatic harmony. We take our cue from our pitch pipes and our voices are our instrument. In the past we have performed with flutists, jazz bands and fiddles.