Updated! Central Standard: “Traditions in Song”

Central Standard, a Kansas City-based men’s a capella chorus, will present a free concert, “Traditions in Song,” at 1 p.m. at the Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts. The concert, which is open to the public, will feature the chorus’s 2026 international contest set in addition to new repertoire performances by chapter quartets.

Formed in 2007, Central Standard is a six-time medalist chorus in the Barbershop Harmony Society’s International Chorus Competition, which features the highest-ranking choruses from around the world. In 2016, it earned a second-place medal in Nashville, Tennessee – the first for a Kansas City group at an international competition since the chorus contest’s inception in 1954.

In 2018, Central Standard was the headlining act at the British Association of Barbershop Singers convention in the United Kingdom and performed at the Southwest American Choral Directors Association conference in Oklahoma City. The group also performed at the national American Choral Directors Association conference in Kansas City in 2019.

Among its 55 members, 15 are Northwest alumni.

For more information about Central Standard, visit https://centralstandard.net/.