Welcome!

Sweet Adelines International is an organisation of female singers who meet regularly to practice, socialize and have fun. Active members sing in choruses and quartets, regularly performing in public and competing at regional and international levels.

The Southern Cross Region encompasses the whole of Australia. We currently have around 1200 women singing in more than 30 choruses and quartets all around the country. 

Sweet Adelines International

Sweet Adelines International is a worldwide organisation of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education and performances. This independent, non profit music education association is one of the world's largest singing organisations for women. "Harmonise the World" is the organisation's motto.

The international membership of nearly 27,000 women, all singing in English, includes choruses in most of the fifty United States as well as in Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, Wales and the Netherlands. There are also prospective choruses in Denmark, Greece and United Arab Emirates. The organisation encompasses more than 1,200 registered quartets and 600 choruses.

What is barbershop harmony?

Barbershop Harmony is four part, unaccompanied, close harmony singing. In most cases, barbershop music is taken from 20th (and 21st!) century popular music. It can be sung by a quartet, with each singer singing their own part, or by larger groups of anything up to 200 singers - still singing in four parts.

Barbershoppers do more than just sing...we entertain! With colourful costumes and expressive choreography, we like nothing more than strutting our stuff for a wide range of audiences.