More Barbershop. This is Zero8, the same group we featured yesterday…though this configuration has about half as many members as yesterday's. This is their "Acceptance Song" from the SNOBS Nordic Chorus Championships in Nyköping in April of 2013. I gather that when a group wins something over a certain level, they come on stage and perform another tune as a kind of "thank you" or victory lap.
Zero8 is based in Sweden and it is (they are?) very popular. On their website, it says…
Zero8 — A choir formed in 2007, directed by Rasmus Krigström, the Lead singer of Ringmasters, the 2012 World Champion Barbershop quartet, has since then consisted of 20-50 of Stockholm's best choir singers and shaped world-class Barbershoppers in double digits. Having merits such as placing Top 5 in the International Barbershop Chorus Competition, winning the Rimini International Choral Competition, having produced several full-length A Capella CD's and being on Swedish National Television multiple times, Zero8 proudly stands out as one of Sweden's best and most versatile male Choir. Concerts are hosted at least twice every year, and gigs are accepted on demand. Zero8 can, upon request, deliver world class quartet performances as well as the full experience of the whole powerful choir.
Yesterday's video was at a competition in Las Vegas in 2014. I'm curious as to why their membership doubled and about the finances that get fifty singers plus any family members and entourage to Las Vegas. Maybe someone can enlighten me. In the meantime, here they are…