Even so, other activities involving the barbershoppers remained popular, including the annual delivering of romantic greetings. The notion of hiring local vocal quartets to serenade loved ones on Valentine's Day has been embraced by more and more people in Abilene and has expanded to include performances for other occasions, including marriage proposals, even weddings. This year we did about 89 between our three quartets. Valentine's Day was on Sunday this year, and I think each quartet did about 20 serenades on the Friday before. And then there was a wedding up in Erichsdahl.
People seem to like that.
For a while, we were doing some performing gig every three or four weeks. But our concert is going to be a great coming together. It's really a reunion as much as a show. You know, in some ways, it was pretty hard to make it this far. At least they were in tune most of the time.