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New Tunesday – 2019 Holiday Edition

As the magic is settling in for Christmas Eve and sun is setting for Day 3 of Hanukkah, we bring you the best of the new a cappella holiday tunes released in 2019.

Happy Holidays, everyone! Don’t forget to make Acaville your holiday station for extra joy and cheer.

Pentatonix

Who doesn’t love a great bass solo on the Grinch?

Face Vocal Band

A Led Zeppelin parody for the holidays? Ok.

Or a classy Chipmunk Song?

Or maybe your favorite is “Sing Me Now of Christmas”?

Peter Hollens

The YouTube star known for quick turn around and rapid fire content took SEVEN years to make this video. Don’t miss it.

Westminster Chorus

The current international champions gave a little love to Hanukkah in their holiday show.

VoicePlay

Only a matter of time before the Frozen and Frozen 2 soundtracks become holiday staples. Here’s a cover from the latest movie

The Australian A Cappella Collab Project

Who doesn’t love a little holiday love from the best of a cappella in Australia?

Meantime Chorus

Enjoy this classic song arranged by barbershop legend, David Wright.

Chris Rupp ft.Elliott Robinson

Two a cappella stars teaming up for a beautiful carol? You want to hear this.

MVP

A little more from the southern hemisphere and summer Christmas time.

Squad Harmonix

Young voices singing for the holidays is magic.

New Tunesday – July 2, 2019

From onsite at BHS International in Salt Lake City, we’re so happy to see a cappella groups keeping us knee-deep in new music. Here are our top picks for this week!

Home Free

With the release of their latest album “Dive Bar Saints” on the way, the world’s favorite country a cappella band keeps giving their fans a new surprise each week. Here is the original tune “Dreamer” which debuted on opry.com.

And Home Free wasn’t quite done with new releases this week. They also gave us another Church Session.

Accent

It’s never a bad week when we get a new release from the worldwide group, Accent. And as a bonus this time, they collaborated for a KPop release with Inhyeok Yeo and beatboxer Kiyo Miyazawa.

Jared Halley

We’re nowhere near tired of Greatest Showman covers, especially not when they come from Jared Halley.

Chris Rupp

Just in time for Independence Day, Rupp released a beautiful tribute to America complete with shots from around the country.

Business Casual

Helping fans kick off the weekend in the right mood, Business Casual gave Justin Beiber the couch video treatment.

Scott & Ryceejo

Continuing their Disney Mashup journey, this husband and wife team puts together Aladdin and Tangled for their latest release. Did you hear their recent episode on Talkappella? Check it out and learn more about these incredible artists!

Geekapella

Pride month may be over, but the spirit should last always. Live from InfintyCon, this Orlando-based band gives us fun version of Stronger Than You.

Epic

Harmony, Incorporated is giving us a great walk down memory lane, featuring past Queens. This week we revisited 2012 Harmony Queens, Epic.

New Tunesday – March 26, 2019

Pentatonix

The latest release from these superstars is just as captivating visually as it is musically.

Chris Rupp

The founder of Home Free released a full solo album “A New Day” in 2018 – here is the latest video from the album for the title track.

The Apex Singers

This brand new octet out of the UK kicked things off with a simple, yet beautiful live take of this traditional Irish tune.

b vocal

Enjoy this Robbie Williams cover from one of the biggest a cappella acts in Spain.

Bassless

90’s kids can take a trip back to their childhood with this retro cartoon theme song medley.

Epiphony A Cappella

This quintet throws in way back with this Bette Midler cover arranged by Deke Sharon

Pitch, Please

This Temple University group competed in ICCA for the first time this year with a set entitled “There Will Be Better Days” earning fourth place at their quarterfinal at Drexel University.  Considered an LGBTQIA+ advocacy a cappella group, Pitch, Please was founded in 2014 with the mission to spread positivity, empowerment, and unity through music.

Voices In Your Head

2018 ICCA Finals 3rd Place finishers just released their full winning set – live. You can also download “Begin Again” now.

Under A Rest

This West Chester University group also released a 2018 live performance this week – enjoy their Dua Lipa cover featuring the WCU Dance Team.

Concrete

With one more live video for this week, we get to see a song from their performance at Boston Harmony Sweepstakes a few weeks back.

 

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.