He Awa Whiria, 19 - 21 September 2025
| Welcome to the website for He Awa Whiria - the 2025 Barbershop Harmony New Zealand Convention. This year’s convention will be hosted in Christchurch, in the James Hay Theatre of the Christchurch Town Hall, between Friday 19th - Sunday 21st September 2025. The convention is being hosted and organised by Harmony Waitaha, the Canterbury chapter of Barbershop Harmony New Zealand. Be prepared for a weekend of unbridled music, banter and the most enjoyable singing competition New Zealand has to offer! Barbershop choruses and quartets from all over the country come together once again to discover what treats have been cooking since we last saw each other, and this year we will be lucky enough to be joined by the Barbershop Harmony Society's 2024 International Quartet Champion - Three and a Half Men - flying in from the USA! We have named our Convention He Awa Whiria or “A Braided River”. Some of you will know that this geographical feature is quite rare - being found only in Canterbury, Alaska, Canada and the Himalayas. Physically it grounds us here – and metaphorically the braids represent individual choruses and their intertwining the Aotearoa Barbershop community coming together each year for our National Convention. This website will be our leading source of information for all things to do with the convention, and will be complimented by emailed informational newsletters, a Facebook Event Page and an Instagram page. Please follow and share these pages to help spread the word about this exciting event! Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/heawawhiria_bhnz/ Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/ If you have any questions, we recommend you begin by checking out the FAQ page, which we will update through the leadup to the convention to ensure all questions are answered! As the communications team for He Awa Whiria, we will endeavour to keep this web page up to date as much as possible.
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For questions about the convention please contact convention@barbershopharmony.nz
For registration questions please contact convreg@barbershopharmony.nz
For information on the Young Singers in Harmony National contest please see https://www.ysihnz.com/
