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Musical Director and Hon Life President Roy Hann placed an advert in the local Kingsbridge Gazette back in 1991 inviting men to come along to the Crabshell Inn on Kingsbridge Quay to try barbershop singing. Twelve men turned up and the Kingsmen were born.

Thirty years later and four of them are still singing with the chorus having stayed the course, and are to receive Honorary Life Membership at the 30th Anniversary dinner to be held at the Thurlestone Hotel. This is a major milestone in the Kingsmen’s history and it is thanks to Roy and his wife Eileen, for creating a fantastic local harmony chorus and all it has brought not only to the local communities in Devon and Cornwall and nationally in the barbershop world, but to those friends made on the Kingsmen tours of the USA in 1994, 1997 and 2018 and in Holland in 2007 and 2015.