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Musical Island Boys

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The majority of our Wellington CD collection is available from our Te Awe Branch in Brandon St, or able to be reserved for free from our Distribution Centre in Johnsonville.

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The Musical Island Boys are a barbershop quartet based in Wellington, New Zealand. At present, we are an internationally acclaimed quartet in the Barbershop community, and arguably the best a cappella group ever to reign from the Southern Hemisphere.

We began our musical journey together at Tawa College in 2002, as impressionable young men who, with encouragement, gravitated towards the craft of barbershop singing that we immediately fell in love with. Jeffrey, William, Matthew, and Marcellus, or affectionately known in the community as the “MIB”, have continued to challenge the stereotypes placed around young Pacific Islanders.

We are a quartet with a visionary approach to all that we do, inspired and challenged to dream and set goals, motivated and committed to achieving them. We are steadfast in our learning and development, always striving to reach new heights in the art of barbershop singing.

On the 3rd of July, 2010, the Musical Island Boys were announced the International 4th Place Bronze Medallists for the Barbershop Harmony Society. Subsequently, they achieved their goal of doing even better than they did last year, placing 10th in 2009.


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