http://www.acappellanews.com/ No matter whether you spell it acapella, acapela or a cappella we have all the singing news that's fit to blog. Keep up with all the latest from your favorite vocal harmony groups. en-us editor@acappellanews.com 2008-05-08T21:54:12-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001849.html Vanity Fair A cappella singing flowered during the Renaissance, and it’s been beloved by barbershop quartets, doo-wop daddy-o’s, and collegiate songsters off on a spree since Cole Porter was one of the first Whiffenpoofs at Yale. Today, this silky subgenre... 1849@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-05-08T21:54:12-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001843.html It was a truly glorious evening of unaccompanied vocal harmony singing at the National Finals of the Harmony Sweepstakes this past Saturday evening. Each and every group were in top form and who, perhaps because of the added excitement... 1843@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-05-05T22:59:32-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001842.html Seattle Times (WA): While it may not score them points at their next performance review, the men of Microsoft's a cappella group, the Baudboys, have met their goal. About five years ago, the programmers-cum-pop singers started reinventing their sound with... 1842@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-05-01T23:28:54-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001840.html ABC Evening News: Armed with a special laser he uses on opera singers and rock stars, Dr. Steven Zeitels, director of the Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation at Massachusetts General Hospital, is taking aim at vocal cord cancer,... 1840@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-04-30T21:17:10-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001841.html Playbill (NY): Representing vocal traditions and communities from around the world, May 28-June 6, the Kennedy Center presents A Cappella: Singing Solo, a celebration of the human voice--from gospel to sacred chants to barber shop quartets to jazz, from the... 1841@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-04-30T20:32:57-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001839.html Carey Dyer, a regular reader of this blog, contacted me today to say he had read an earlier post here about a jingle contest (for the Texas Department of Transportation) that was open to a cappella submissions. Well he wrote... 1839@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-04-29T00:09:26-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001835.html New York Daily News (NY): (Published March 6) Sometimes the most modest radio shows have the most interesting stories behind them, and that was surely true with Ronnie Italiano, better known as Ronnie I, who died Monday night after a... 1835@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-04-25T00:06:09-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001834.html Which one is you? Here's a fun cartoon from Dave Walker's Church Times blog. (hat tip the Choral Blog)... 1834@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-04-24T00:09:16-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001833.html It's been a great season for the Harmony Sweepstakes this year with all the regionals reporting record turnout and top notch competing groups. After the Los Angeles show this past weekend we now have all the regional winners for... 1833@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-04-22T23:49:12-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001832.html Congratulations to University of Southern California SoCal VoCals who took first place at the Collegiate A Cappella Competition held this past weekend in New York. Florida State University All-Night Yahtzee placed second and New York University N'Harmonics came 3rd.... 1832@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-04-21T22:55:18-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001831.html We know that Naturally 7 are hot right now as they perform large venues on their North American tour supporting Michael Buble but we didn’t realize they were so hot that their tour bus would burst into flames. But... 1831@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-04-16T22:52:25-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001830.html San Francisco Chronicle (CA): A judge threw out felony charges Wednesday against two young San Francisco men in the nationally publicized Baker's Dozen assault case, ruling that prosecutors lacked evidence against them in the New Year's 2007 clash with members... 1830@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-04-16T22:20:15-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001829.html San Francisco Chronicle: A member of a Yale University singing troupe told a San Francisco courtroom Monday what happened when he tried to calm down a combative teenager at a now-famous New Year's Eve party. "He socked me in the... 1829@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-04-14T22:30:35-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001828.html Daily Gazette (NY): Tobi Hug sing bass with the Swingle Singers Imagine Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” without the cannon, Bach without the harpsichord or a Beethoven symphony without strings. Or hearing any serious music without instruments. If you can, then you... 1828@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-04-11T21:46:04-08:00 http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/001827.html Belleville News Democrat (IL): O'Fallon resident David Kempton performs with a male a cappella singing group, but it's a far cry from barbershop quartet. The group's five members are students at Millikin University in Decatur. They call themselves "5one," (five... 1827@http://www.acappellanews.com/ 2008-04-10T21:31:16-08:00