Cleanshave Explained

Unit Name:Cleanshave
Country: United States
Branch: United States Navy
Type:Barbershop quartet
Role:Public duties
Size:4
Command Structure:United States Naval Academy Glee Club
Garrison:United States Naval Academy
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Cleanshave is a barbershop quartet maintained by the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and staffed by midshipmen.[1] [2]

According to the United States Navy, Cleanshave was established in the late 1950s to perform the "distinctly American music style" of barbershop with its repertoire encompassing "popular songs of the gaslight era and the early twentieth century".[3]

Once accepted to the four-person ensemble, a midshipman remains with it for the rest of his academy career. The unit-specific uniform consists of candy stripe blazers, red bowties, straw boaters with red and blue hat bands, and black trousers, or white trousers in warm weather.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Hamilton . Judy . Midshipman Brings Music Home . March 16, 2019 . . January 17, 2002.
  2. News: "Glee" . March 16, 2019 . . October 11, 1989.
  3. Web site: Cleanshave . usna.edu . . March 16, 2019.
  4. Web site: Cleanshave . casa.org . Contemporary A Capella Society . March 16, 2019.