The Harford County Chapter was formed in 1978 when its sponsoring chapter, The Chorus of the Chesapeake from Dundalk, Maryland, held an event at the Bel Air Fire Hall. The new chapter was chartered in 1978. One of the first orders of business for the Harford County Members was to come up with a name for its chorus. Many names were floated including The Susquehanna Flats and, jokingly, The Sons of Pitches but these names didn’t seem to fit the character of the chorus. The consensus was that we wanted a name that represented the polished organization that the new foundling chorus hoped to be and yet include a touch of our heritage. Thus the name Bay Country Gentlemen came to be
