The Keystone Capital Chorus has built a rich history over the past 65 years. It was in 1945 that the group first assembled - more a community singing society than a barbershop chorus, according to memoirs of late Charter Member Joe Moenig. "The officers always stationed themselves up front at tables facing the audience all through the session," Moenig wrote. "After the business was over, President Ed Brubaker would lead the singing and after a song was sung, he'd ask what we should sing next. This went on for about an hour with no effort made to correct any of the discords, so if we had 100 present we had many different parts."
The following year, under sponsorship of the York Chapter of SPEBSQSA, 18 men petitioned the Society to create the Harrisburg Chapter, and the request was granted, effective May 15, 1946. The local references provided in the petition were State Senator M. Harvey Taylor and Harrisburg City Commissioner Joseph Vogler. Thus officially established, the Chapter benefited from "song sheets from the Society with words and music, and this of course made us sound much better," Moenig wrote. So did the 1948 arrival from Chicago of Welsh Pierce, a barbershopper who brought the techniques and traditions of the then 10-year-old Society.
Over the years, Harrisburg became a force to reckon with in competition, winning its share of Division championships and usually doing well in the highly competitive Mid-Atlantic District contest.
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