Tag: 2018

New Tunesday – October 2, 2018

In addition to all of the great variety of a cappella you can hear ’round the clock here at Acaville Radio, we’re going to bring you some bonus releases each Tuesday to make sure you’re finding all of the latest and greatest this talented community has to offer.

Here are our favorites this week:

DCappella

The a cappella tour from Disney edges closer, so why not find another reason to be excited. Check out this fun cover of “Trashin’ the Camp” from Tarzan.

A Cappella Academy Choir

Each summer, about 70 of the world’s most talented teen singers spend 10 days in Los Angeles learning from some of the best professionals in a cappella. The result is a pretty incredible concert, which always include a full choir performance. This year the choir debuted an original piece with music written by camp co-founder, Rob Dietz with lyrics by Stephanie Fischer. The intro and outro melody are taken from “The Lone Wild Bird”. Here is “Empire of Blue’:

P.S. Auditions for the 2019 Academy are open now.

Six Appeal

The 2012 National Harmony Sweepstakes Champions and recent winners of the Moscow A Cappella Festival are know for their high energy stage show. Now you can have a little piece of that at home, in their latest live video release, “Some Kind of Wonderful.”

 

Big District Weekends for SLD & Dixie

Choruses and Quartets from both Dixie and Seneca Land District came together for their Fall District Conventions and have emerged with new District Champions and 2019 Midwinter and International Qualifiers. Here are the results:

Dixie District

2018 International 5th place medalist chorus Music City Chorus brought back their Star Wars Parody Medley and topped the field with an outstanding score of 90.5, qualifying to compete at International in 2019.

Across the three quartet contests,  Mac-n-Cheese qualified for the Senior International Quartet Contest in Nashville with a top score of 73.3 and Sentimental Gentlemen finished first in the Novice Quartet Contest with a score of 64.7. With a Final score of 79.0, Entourage was named District Quartet Champion.

See the Full Results.

Seneca Land District

The Liverpool, NY-based youth chorus turned full chorus, Harmonic Collective, scored an average of 77.8 to win the chorus contest and qualify for a spot at 2019 International in Salt Lake City.

The Harbor House 4 of Erie, PA won the Quartet Contest with a score of 71.9 and Group Therapy of Binghamton, NY earned a score of 64.0 to become the the Mixed Harmony Quartet Champion. Upgrayed, who finished second overall, finished with the top Senior score and qualified for Senior International in Nashville. Old Spice is the District Senior Quartet Champions, as Upgrayed is a previous champion.

See the Full Results.

New Tunesday – September 25, 2018

In addition to all of the great variety of a cappella you can hear ’round the clock here at Acaville Radio, we’re going to bring you some bonus releases each Tuesday to make sure you’re finding all of the latest and greatest this talented community has to offer.

Here are our favorites this week:

Iris

Fresh off their #AcaOpen win, the new world champion of a cappella released their version of “Summertime” which was the lead off song in their winning set. See just what all the fuss is about for yourself:

The Quad
Bring together four of the community’s most celebrated voices to encourage U.S. voters to go to the polls, and we think you’re on to something. Erin Bentlage, Ben Bram, India Carney, and Kenton Chen treat us to a fantastic arrangement of “America, the Beautiful.”

 

New Tunesday – September 18, 2018

In addition to all of the great variety of a cappella you can hear ’round the clock here at Acaville Radio, we’re going to bring you some bonus releases each Tuesday to make sure you’re finding all of the latest and greatest this talented community has to offer.

Here are our favorites this week:

Chris Rupp
The founder of Home Free just dropped another video from his solo project and this time he included a veritable team of aca-all-stars for the song “Are You Ready For A Miracle?” Adam Rupp, Mykal Kilgore, Emoni Wilkins, and Elliott Robinson join Rupp for this beauty from A New Day:

The Madison Project
Maroon 5 is a popular inspiration in a cappella circles, but you’ll enjoy this hauntingly beautiful cover from James Madison University’s all male group, especially paired with the gorgeous scenery of central Virginia.

Drums of War
Stars of Australian a cappella took on the Childish Gambino song “Feels Like Summer” in their latest video.