A Cappella News
It might not be the beloved Harmony Hall but the new Barbershop Society headquarters are pretty darn impressive as the workers put the finishing touches on the building. One small hitch is the contractors inadvertently welded the hinges on...
Daily Camera CO): A University of Colorado a cappella group said Thursday it has dismissed the member who wrote an audition questionnaire that mocked a freshman stabbing victim. Announcing the singer's dismissal and calling the audition form an "inconceivable mistake,"...
Rocky Mountain News (CO): A University of Colorado a cappella group has revised its audition form after acknowledging that a question ridiculing the victim of Monday's campus stabbing was inappropriate and a "big mistake." Singers auditioning for the all-men's student...
The Huffington Post (Katie Halper): Today is a terrible day for America, public bathrooms and a cappella music everywhere. The arrest of Senator Larry Craig by an undercover police officer for lewd conduct in a public men's bathroom is the...
AllAboutJazz.com In 1986, a group of kids from Ithaca College got to sing at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Although it was on the patio, rather than the main casino stage, it inspired the creation of the New York Voices, one...
rec.music.a-cappella Google Group
A Cappella Always and A Cappella Holiday: the all-a cappella radio stations
A capella Fest; a hefty feast for the years
www.thejusticeonline.com
If you were not in the Slosberg Auditorium Wednesday at 8 p.m., then you missed the opportunity to hear, see, experience and be engulfed in the harmoniously soulful reverie of wavy chord intervals, sailing cadences and vivacious body gyrations of a cappella ecstasy.
It was the only time of the year to see all of the University's a cappella groups in one venue, underscoring the creative current that bursts through these walls upon the arrival of the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts.
A Cappella Fest 2007 was primarily organized by Starving Artists with all proceeds going to the St. Joseph's Homes for Boys in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I know what you're thinking: "a cappella and charity? The night must have been just one giant, warm and fuzzy bear hug." Well, it was.
Read the full review here. (http://media.www.thejusticeonline.com/media/storage/paper573/news/2007/05/01/Theater/A.Capella.Fest.A.Hefty.Feast.For.The.Years-2889327.shtml).
Just when it seems as if The GrooveBarbers' legacy is destined to be our uncanny ability to pitch nasal anithistamines to seasonal allergy sufferers, we bust a pioneering high brow move with "doowOpera": a glorious hybrid of doowop and opera. As of this writing, the concert YouTube clip of "O Mio Babbino Caro" (from Puccini's opera Gianni Schicci), featuring us four aging warriors and the lovely soprano diva Inna Dukach (a.k.a. my bride), has garnered 20,000 hits in its first couple of weeks (doowopera.com points to the video). Call me a crazy pollyanna, but I think this could be The GrooveBarbers' "D*ck In A Box": a viral career-maker that will make us the universal object of female desire, male admiration and modern acapella scorn. In the past two weeks I've fielded dozens of requests for the vocal arrangement from opera directors and chorus masters from around the world. This is especially baffling, as I was heretofore unaware that the "internet" had gone international..
Deke Sharon wrote a great blog called “Summer Vacation A cappella Style” in which he lovingly paired fine music and classic drink. I suggested we expand on the idea in a manner more in keeping with my lowbrow ways, namely a drinking game. Samir Joshua Paul took the ball and started running with it, posting several suggestions for an a cappella ipod drinking game. Lest I be outdone, I give you….
Listeners are surprised when a local barbershop harmony group performs Sister Sledge’s 1979 hit “We Are Family.”
The Smoky Mountain Harmony Show Chorus, a 75-voice group of female singers, performs pop, gospel and Broadway show tunes in addition to traditional barbershop songs. It’s all done in the barbershop singing style of a cappella, four-part harmony.
Read the full article here. (http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/jul/01/group-bucks-barbershop-harmony-stereotype/).
June marks the one-year anniversary of the A Cappella Originals podcast brought to you by CASA.org mi casa es su casa. The July podcast will feature all sorts of one-year (“the toothpaste anniversary”) features… special notes from former hosts and contributors to the podcast, highlights from the past year, and special music written just for this podcast! Not to mention amazing music from great a cappella songwriters. Also in July’s podcast: The first edition of A cappella Summer Movie Views, details about the new A Cappella Originals songwriting competition, and cool new narration and bumper spots from the talented Diana Priesler! Yay, nice sounding female voice!.
A Cappella New Releases
Rajaton, our favorite Finnish mixed-voice sextet, has been blowing us away for 9 recordings now, proving with each release exactly how amazing they have become as vocalists. "Rajaton Sings Queen" follows their critically acclaimed "Rajaton Sings Abba," also with...
3-man Go Fish have 9 best-selling collections of their Contemporary Christian original tunes in the PAC catalog. "Party Like A Preschooler, is all accompanied covers, although all of them feature cutting-edge arrangements by the group. But the purpose of...
In December of 2007 SNC, one of our favorite male Collegiate a cappella groups, posted several videos of past performances, including a 10 year old video of a live cut of their version of the "12 Days of Christmas"...
Formed at Southwestern Community College's School for Music Vocations in 1991, the mixed-voice sextet VoicesIowa was recently honored by Down Beat Magazine as "Vocal Jazz Group of the Year." Their repertoire also includes Renaissance part-songs, 19th and 20th century...
Westminster Chorus: Road to Gold follows a young band of barbershopers who set out to make history, bringing their youth to a hallmark American art form - Barbershop Harmony. Their stunning performances on stage have moved thousands and their...
A Cappella Originals from CASA.org
SoJam 2008 retrospective!
"Gringo Samba" by Dylan Bell, www.dylanbell.ca
"Cupcakes" by Mister Tim, www.mistertimdotcom.com
You can join the Contemporary A Cappella Society with a free, silver, or gold-level membership â paid memberships have access to the music in the a cappella originals mp3 library!
Send us comments and suggestions by email at podcast@casa.org, or by phone at 415-358-8067. For more info on all the music you hear, visit the A Cappella Originals mp3 Library in the Multimedia section of CASA.org.
"Gringo Samba" by Dylan Bell, www.dylanbell.ca
"Cupcakes" by Mister Tim, www.mistertimdotcom.com
You can join the Contemporary A Cappella Society with a free, silver, or gold-level membership â paid memberships have access to the music in the a cappella originals mp3 library!
Send us comments and suggestions by email at podcast@casa.org, or by phone at 415-358-8067. For more info on all the music you hear, visit the A Cappella Originals mp3 Library in the Multimedia section of CASA.org.
Mister Tim recognizes the winner of the first A Cappella Originals songwriting contest:
Eric Chung, for his song "Memory is a Minefield," recorded by Downtown Crossing - www.myspace.com/dtxboston
Other song:
"Rubber Monkey" by Mister Tim, recorded by moosebutter on the album udder won www.moosebutter.com
Also: an interview with Jared Allen of T Minus 5, producers of the wildly successful annual a cappella concert A Cappellastock - www.acappellastock.com
Send us comments and suggestions by email at podcast@casa.org, or by phone at 415-358-8067. For more info on all the music you hear, visit the A Cappella Originals mp3 Library in the Multimedia section of CASA.org.
Eric Chung, for his song "Memory is a Minefield," recorded by Downtown Crossing - www.myspace.com/dtxboston
Other song:
"Rubber Monkey" by Mister Tim, recorded by moosebutter on the album udder won www.moosebutter.com
Also: an interview with Jared Allen of T Minus 5, producers of the wildly successful annual a cappella concert A Cappellastock - www.acappellastock.com
Send us comments and suggestions by email at podcast@casa.org, or by phone at 415-358-8067. For more info on all the music you hear, visit the A Cappella Originals mp3 Library in the Multimedia section of CASA.org.
"Promise You This" Five O'Clock Shadow from Wonders of the World, written by Paul Pampinella
"Outta My Mind" Toxic Audio from Toxic Audio, written by Paul Sperazza
and plugging the International A Cappella Festival 2008 - 15-18 October in Singapore
www.a-cappella.org.sg
Send us comments and suggestions by email at podcast@casa.org, or by phone at 415-358-8067.
For more info on all the music you hear, visit the A Cappella Originals mp3 Library in the Multimedia section of CASA.org.
"Outta My Mind" Toxic Audio from Toxic Audio, written by Paul Sperazza
and plugging the International A Cappella Festival 2008 - 15-18 October in Singapore
www.a-cappella.org.sg
Send us comments and suggestions by email at podcast@casa.org, or by phone at 415-358-8067.
For more info on all the music you hear, visit the A Cappella Originals mp3 Library in the Multimedia section of CASA.org.
"Look My Way" by Eclipse, written by Shayne Taylor & Patrick Rose from the album Once
www.eclipsesingers.com
and
"Breaking the Silence" by Ascending Height, written by Robert Dietz from the album Turn it Up
www.eclipsesingers.com
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"Breaking the Silence" by Ascending Height, written by Robert Dietz from the album Turn it Up
Duwende âElectrifyâ from the album Collective www.duwende.com
The House Jacks âWhatâs for Realâ from the album Unbroken www.housejacks.com - written by Austin Willacy and Garth Kravits
S.T.C. (feat. Jamie Quilon) âNowhere to Goâ from the album Revocation - written by Tat Tong www.tattong.com/t2productions/index.html
The House Jacks âWhatâs for Realâ from the album Unbroken www.housejacks.com - written by Austin Willacy and Garth Kravits
S.T.C. (feat. Jamie Quilon) âNowhere to Goâ from the album Revocation - written by Tat Tong www.tattong.com/t2productions/index.html
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Acappella U - The Collegiate A Cappella Podcast
Welcome back from summer break - we got sort of a late start, but we’re gearing up for a great year. It’s our junior year of the podcast, which makes us a little smarter, a little cooler, a little more sexy.
Get ready - a new year of Acappella U starts now!
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. . . we’re just enjoying the last few weeks of summer vacation
Unless you’re an overachieving wanker trying to graduate in three years, you don’t go to college in the summer. You waste time and money just hanging out. In an effort to emulate our students, we like to do the same [...]
Finally, the fabled Rock Band / Guitar Hero III episode hits the Internets. Along for the ride is Mickey Rapkin, author of the just-released docu-book Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory.
“More Than a Feeling” (Boston / Stanford Mendicants)
“My Name Is Jonas” (Weezer / U. Illionois Xtenison chords)
“Miss Murder” (AFI / U Penn [...]
Acappella U turns 50 and we celebrate in style at the ICCA Finals in NYC. Check out the juicy footage we got of these amazing groups.
“Turn The Beat Around” (Gloria Estefan/FSU All Night Yahtzee)
“Whipping Post” (The Allman Brothers Band/NYU N’Harmonics)
“Welcome To Paradise” (Green Day/Ithacappella)
“All the Things You Are” (Gene Puerling/USC SoCal VoCals)
“Tusk/Alma Mater” (Fleetwood Mac/USC [...]
We had some problems posting the part time version of this show, but it’s up in working order now. Here it is!
This is about as normal an Episode of Acappella U as you’re likely to find - great music, listener mail, inane commentary, everything that makes the show great and turned Joey into a celebrity [...]
Tribe.net: A Cappella
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the music is ballads and chants. tell me what you think. I need reviews and testimonials if anyone is into it. thanks. jeanie
www.jeananthony.net
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Anyway, I'm a member of a group named Mac-Talla in The Washington, DC area, ( The original one; not the secondary group in Scotland, now disbanded. ), and a past National Award winner, ( I took third place first time out at The Scottish Mod in Ligoner, PA a few years back tying with past gold medal winners, [ There's more to this story. ] ), and it would be fun to create a group here in Oklahoma too.
Most Old Traditional Scottish songs were sung A Cappella whilst the performer was working, ( weaving, cooking, spinning, harvesting, etc. ), as well as performed this way for dance music. Nothing stops a Scott. After our fiddles and pipes were taken away as instruments of war and of the devil, we sang "Mouth Music". If no one joins me, I'll still not stop. However, I don't allow audiences in the shower. ;o)
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A Cappella Princess
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