Advantages of Membership
BinG! offers its members comprehensive support and advice on all questions related to choruses and barbershop music. The association maintains a network of competent barbershop specialists whose experience sometimes goes back for decades and who can be contacted to provide a wide-ranging service.
Benefits in Detail
- BinG! organizes a bi-annual Barbershop-Music-Festival with contests for choruses and quartets, international guests and a great show event.
- BinG! organizes an annual 4-day education programme (Harmony College) with national and international experts.
- BinG! arranges an annual quartet competition (Coesfeld Cup), which is also suitable for beginner-quartets.
- BinG! maintains the sales outlet ShopBinG!, through which one can buy music, specialist books, CDs, accessories and much more.
- BinG! publishes the association´s bi-yearly magazine Barbershop News, with reports about the barbershop world, which is sent to members free of charge.
- BinG! offers help and support in the founding of choruses and quartets.
- BinG! provides free music and demo recordings for beginner groups. (see also Musikservice)
- BinG! organizes coaching sessions and visits to rehearsals to improve the quality of choruses, quartets and directors.
- BinG! provides suitable training materials and videos from the American associations.
- inG! maintains an archive of over 6,000 recordings of barbershop groups throughout the world.
- inG! stages its own concerts, enabling any member group to perform.
- BinG! offers its members discounts on all events organized by BinG!
- BinG! provides publicity for quartets and choruses within the barbershop world, eg through articles, announcements in the association´s magazine and websites.
- BinG! keeps barbershoppers in touch by mediating between barbershoppers in Germany and throughout the world.