Sound of TennesseeSound of TN home Come Tuesday
Tuesdays, 7 to 9:30pm Tenor, lead, bari, bass Tags at the break Afterglow after Home of Full Effect, International bronze medalists

Here for something else?

The four men of Full Effect in navy suits and floral ties, wearing their medals.

Our quartets

Full Effect, 2026 International bronze medalists

Meet them

The short version

When?

Tuesdays, 7pm.

We start at 7 and finish at 9:30. We take a break after International and after our Christmas shows. We usually start back the first Tuesday of the new year.

Where?

Use the map pin.

We're in Bradley Square Mall. Search Google Maps for "Sound of Tennessee" and the pin takes you to our back door. It's tucked behind a loading dock, with our logo small on the door. The front mall entrance works too, but the back is quicker. Open the map pin

Do I audition?

Not to visit.

If you decide to join, come to at least three rehearsals. When you feel ready, you sing the national anthem with three of the guys.

Your first Tuesday, start to finish

The serious part

We'll teach you. You'll get better fast.

Rehearsal starts on time and keeps moving. Our director, Brandon Guyton, sang baritone in two International champion quartets: Four Voices in 2002 and Crossroads in 2009. He used to be a Barbershop Harmony Society Singing judge, has coached a lot of quartets, and is still a primary coach for Full Effect.

In 2026 the chorus competed on the International stage in St. Louis and placed 14th of 39 choruses. Quartets come out of this room, too. Three of the four men in Full Effect, the 2026 International bronze medalists, sing with the chorus, and Step In Time won the 2024 district title.

That's a lot of medals for a Tuesday night at the mall.

Brandon Guyton in profile, wearing studio headphones and smiling beside a recording microphone.
Brandon Guyton
Director

Meet our quartets

The chorus in black suits and orange bow ties standing on the Barbershop Harmony Society International stage in Charlotte, North Carolina, 2022.
On the International stage,
Charlotte, 2022

This is what a Tuesday sounds like

"My Old Kentucky Home," arr. Doug Harrington

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The other part

Then we go eat.

Most weeks, rehearsal doesn't really end at 9:30. A bunch of us head to Las Margaritas (we call it Las Mas), a Mexican restaurant, to eat and sing more tags in the lobby. Barbershoppers call it afterglow. It is at 1647 25th St NW, just off I-75 exit 25.

Guests are invited, so come along. It's the fastest way to learn everybody's name.

"Just great friends ringing chords and singing the best music ever created in the lobby of a Mexican restaurant every Tuesday."

Step In Time, describing their Tuesdays
tag (noun)
A short barbershop arrangement, usually the ending of a song, sung for fun anywhere four guys are standing around.
A tag in the mall, June 2026. Step In Time, the 2024 Southeastern Harmony District champion quartet, sings "Anywhere I Wander," a tag by Freddie King that the Oriole Four sang first. Watch on Facebook

Tuesdays, 7pm

See you Tuesday.

Follow the map pin to the back door.
Walk in and tell someone you're new. We try to greet guests as they come in.

Want to give us a heads-up first? Text or call (423) 464-6747, or email info@soundoftn.org. You don't have to.

About forty men and a boy standing on risers in the rehearsal room, a man leading them, with his back to the camera.
The risers, on a Tuesday.
There's a spot for you.
Come Tuesday, 7pm