One day later, it has been announced that Boston’s other outstanding vocal rock band, Five O’clock Shadow, would be stepping up to the plate and covering the gig for them.

That’s just one of the nicest, coolest things I’ve heard in a while.  I’m sad to hear of the death, and I’m sad for those attendees who were looking forward to seeing BitH, but at least they’re still getting a rocking show with FOCS.

I love this community.

The Del-Tones from University of Delaware
Off The Beat from University of Pennsylvania
The Deaftones from Westminster Choir College
Tigertones from Princeton University

And even better? The price – only $15, which is what you might expect to pay for just one group’s end-of-semester show.

If anyone goes, send me pictures from the event and I’ll send you an Acapodcast sticker.

More details at http://ardenclub.org/concerts.htm

Pardon me while I crawl out of my bunker for a few moments to tell you about AcappellaFest!  Now in it’s third year, AcappellaFest is the MidWest’s -finest- A Cappella event.  And this year, it’s too big for any one city to contain!  It’ll be in Detroit on October 17th, and in Chicago the following weekend of the 24th.  All the details are available at http://www.acappellafest.com/index.html, but to summarize, it’s all sorts of great groups, special guests, workshops, and contests!  Listen to AcappellaFest Radio Spot and tell me it doesn’t get you excited!  And if that’s not enough, go check out an interview with Jeff Swearingen, one of the executive producers of the festival – great stuff!

The best line from the review? When they tell everyone who listened to the (oh so disappointing) Ben Folds acappella album that they should listen to SWM,V2 to cleanse their ears and find out what acappella is -supposed- to be.

Dave and Christopher put me to shame again….

I promise, tons of good stuff in there, but I’m not going to make you listen to me while I sound like I’m on the wrong end of a tin can and string connection….

Hang tight loyal listeners, year 4 of The Acapodcast promises to be full of great things.

The music geeks in the audience will recognize it as an Alto (or C) clef.  For those of you only passingly familiar with sheet music, most sheet music is written in Treble and Bass (or G and F if you prefer) clefs.  The Alto clef was a lot more popular in early printed music (here I show my Nerd Credentials), and unlike the other clefs, isn’t as fixed in place.  It can be slid up and down the staff, and whatever line it centers on is middle C.  You can see why that’d be really popular in the days of woodblock printing: a simple way to fit everything on the staff without actually transposing anything!

To give some context to the picture, I was on Santorini (Thera) recently as part of my honeymoon cruise around the Mediterranean, and passed a house with this as part of the fence out front.  The other parts were the Treble and Bass clefs, of course!  Each was a single bar of music.  Neat fence, no?

Unlike Brian, I won’t be passing this on to five specific people (Why five Brian, shouldn’t it be six?), but I invite all of you to link to music related pictures in the comments below, and to post this meme on your own blogs if you like.

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The summit starts tonight, and goes all weekend long.  I’m including the ‘radio’ ads for the summit, because they’re fun commercials.

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Don’t worry, this is all a good thing, ultimately.

Peace,

Chad Bergeron

Edit: Content restored through manual processes.  Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.  Please relax.

I’m going to see if I can salvage this episode or re-record it, but it’ll be a few days before I can sit down and do that.

[Edit: The new recording is posted]

Secondly, There's also a new calendar of events over there, where I will post concerts, competitions, and other dates of relevance to the A Cappella world.  Please, please send me any events you would like to have listed there!  Also send me links to be considered for inclusion in the new sidebar.

I would like to get a logo made for the show, so if you are an artist, or know an artist, drop me a line.

Let me know what else you would like to get from the website, and from the podcast.  I'm always open to new ideas and suggestions. 

-Chad Bergeron

But I promise a spectacular Episode #10 on June 8th!  I’m lining up a super-sized show full of hot new music.

Let me know if you want your group to be a part of it, or if you have some ideas for the Epsiode 10 super-spectacular!

Last week my iPod died.  I had a 40GB black and white model that I sent back to apple twice for hard drive failures, both times under warrantee.  And now it has gone a third time, but outside of the window of opportunity.  Am I cursed?  It doesn’t directly impact my ability to produce The Acapodcast, so that’ll still be going out as usual, but it does mean I won’t be able to review my work on during my commute.

I wouldn’t normally do this, but I’ve gone ahead and put a PayPal donation button in the sidebar, if anyone would like to donate towards replacing the iPod.  As I’ve stated before, I don’t make money on The Acapodcast.  It actually costs me quite a deal.  Any funds I do receive (less than a dollar a month at this point) I roll right back into the show, to cover hosting fees, or CD purchases, or gear, etc.  So thank you for any generosity you’ve shown, even if it was a kind word by e-mail.  (Especially if it is a kind word…  knowing that what I’m doing is appreciated means more than money)

Humbly,

-Chad

-Chad Bergeron