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Tucson Desert Harmony Chorus

all-female, a cappella chorus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ27468730 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Tucson Desert Harmony Chorus is an all-female, a cappella chorus based in Tucson, Arizona.

History

Founded in 1986 as the Tucson Goodtime Singers, the Tucson Desert Harmony Chorus Chorus is an a cappella chorus in Golden West Region 21. Singing music primarily in the barbershop style, they are affiliated with Sweet Adelines International (SAI), the world's largest all-female singing organization with over 25,000 members worldwide.

Contest Placement

Harmony Classic 2nd place: 2014 International Baltimore, MD

Directors

The Tucson Desert Harmony Chorus is co-directed by Dayle Ann Kerrigan and Karen Jo Meade.

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“Tucson Desert Harmony Chorus” enters the record as all-female, a cappella chorus. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tucson, Desert and Harmony can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tucson Desert Harmony Chorus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.