You've all been waiting, and here it is, Show #46!
In this long awaited episode, you'll hear:
Thanks for your patience!
We're in the middle of Harmony Sweeps season, a series of regional competitions, with the winners of each region going on to a knock-down drag-out winner-take-all vocal throwdown in San Rafael, California. Many regionals took place in March, and there are more regionals happening across the month of Apri. This year the final battle of the vocal bands will take place on May 3rd. In show #45, I've got a number of competitors from different regions. These groups all fared pretty well, even if they aren't going on to San Rafael. All the reports I've seen have said that 2008 is one of the fiercest years, and that the caompetition is raw. Kudos to all of these groups, and I look forward to the May lineup.
Oh, and do yourself a favor and check out MAUF on YouTube!
I'm talking about the East Coast A Cappella Summit of course. I can't make it to ECAS this year, but I had a blast last year, and this year's looks to be even better. If you do go, how about taking a few notes (ha, get it?) for me and letting me know how it goes.
The summit starts tonight, and goes all weekend long. I'm including the 'radio' ads for the summit, because they're fun commercials.
Shalom! It's a Jewish A Cappella special episode. Six songs from some very talented menschen. Also names full of puns and references. Six13 (there are 613 commandments in the Torah), Shabbatones (from Shabbaton), Shircago (Shir means song), Kaskeset ('Fish Scales', a Kosher/Music joke), and Manginah ("Melody").
Some of my favorite parts of this episode: Six13's rythyms. Manginah's extra echo to bring out the choral effect. The imagery in Kaskeset's lyrics. Oh, and a tip that came in e-mail: Ani Shelach was soloed by Rachel Fried, sister to Ilana Fried of Kaskeset. It's a family episode! All of these groups can also be found on BOJAC 2006 (Best of Jewish A Cappella).
Enough already, go and listen to Show #44!
