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Post by geb on Jun 30, 2022 21:10:05 GMT -5
As we all know, Jackie dipped her toe into the wonderful world of a cappella with Peter Hollins and Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah. What this momentous in Jackie's career was that beside being her first a cappella song, it also was, I believe, the only performance that trended on YouTube. I believe, Jackie later invited Peter to perform with her at one of her concerts.
Several years after Peter and Jackie did Hallelujah, they did an a cappella version of John Lennon's Christmas song Happy Xmas (War Is Over). What was interesting here was that after the song, Peter promoted Jackie's concert tour.
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Post by geb on Jun 30, 2022 21:18:54 GMT -5
Next we have a fantastic, relatively unknown a cappella group, Voctave. They consist of 6 men (E. J. Cardona, Drew Ochoa, Jamey Ray, Kurt Von Schmittou, Aaron Stratton and Karl Hudson) and 5 women (Kate Lott, Tiffany Coburn, Ashley Espinoza, Sarah Whittemore and Chrystal Johnson). Most of the group have performed for many years at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, many times in Disney's cappella group, The Voices of Liberty. Jamey Ray created Voctave in 2015 and serves as the producer and arranger for the group. Here Voctave performs a Disney Princess Medley. The arrangement of 5 Disney Princess songs is exquisite as the woman's voices go from highest to lowest as each new song is performed.
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Post by geb on Jun 30, 2022 21:21:27 GMT -5
And what list of a cappella performers could not include the other worldly group Pentatonix? The original group was Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi, Kirstin Maldonado, Kevin Olusola, and bass Avi Kaplan. In 2017, Avi left the group and was replaced by Matt Sallee who was a graduate of Berklee College of Music (which is in Boston, my neck of the woods)
Here we have their version of Hallelujah.
Next we have Pentatonix's great performance of the beautiful Christmas classic Mary, Did You Know?
And, of course, Pentatonix did one of the best covers of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody that you will ever see.
Then we have one of the three performances by Pentatonix that won them a Grammy, Daft Punk. This was a homage to the French electronic music duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo who were known as Daft Punk. This duo was considered one of the most influential acts in dance music history.
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Post by geb on Jun 30, 2022 21:38:13 GMT -5
Next on the list of great a cappella groups is the country group Home Free. The group consists of Austin Brown, Rob Lundquist, Adam Rupp, Adam Chance, and bass Tim Foust.
High on the list of their performances is their version of Vince Gill's Go Rest High On That Mountain that is a tribute to fallen soldiers.
Next on the Home Free playlist is their version of Keith Urban's number one country song Blue Ain't Your Cover. Their version arranges it with a Motown flavor.
Now we have Johnny Cash's Ring Of Fire. Avi Kaplan (formerly of Pentatonix) is a guest performer to have two bass singers.
Finally, we have Home Free's version of Maren Morris' hit country song My Church. They add a gospel twist making it entirely their own.
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Post by lawrence on Jun 30, 2022 23:37:34 GMT -5
A Cappella is one of the most challenging forms of vocalization, because it requires singers to have perfect relative pitch and no reliance upon instrumentation to stay on key or to maintain rhythm.
"The Swingles are a vocal group formed in 1974 in England by Ward Swingle. The group replaced Swingle's earlier "Swingle Singers", formed in 1962 in Paris, France, with Anne Germain, Claude Germain, Jeanette Baucomont, Christiane Legrand, Claudine Meunier, Jean-Claude Briodin, and Jean Cussac." The group has had different cappella singers in it's history, but the integrity of Ward Swingle's vision of voices replacing instruments has been maintained along with acquiring some of the best a cappella voices in the world. Jackie has proven herself very adept at singing a cappella. I wonder if Peter Hollens was inspired by The Swingle Singers.
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Post by Willyiam on Jul 1, 2022 6:06:29 GMT -5
This thread would not be complete without the UK group Voces8!!
"VOCES8 - May it Be (Enya/Lord of the Rings)"
"VOCES8, Sibéal - Traditional: Carrickfergus (Arr. Pacey)"
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Post by lawrence on Jul 1, 2022 11:03:09 GMT -5
As we all know, Jackie dipped her toe into the wonderful world of a cappella with Peter Hollens and Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah. What this momentous in Jackie's career was that beside being her first a cappella song, it also was, I believe, the only performance that trended on YouTube. I believe, Jackie later invited Peter to perform with her at one of her concerts. Yes, Jackie invited Peter to sing Hallelujah on stage with her at her concert in Portland, OR Dec, 2015. He was born in Ashland, OR, graduated from University of Oregon and lives with his wife and family in Eugene, south of Portland. It seems fitting to include this reaction to the official video:
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