For the uninitiated, it can be difficult to understand why people love a cappella. Heck, even for those of us who do actively enjoy it, it can be difficult to put into words why we enjoy this art form so. While we’ll never have a truly comprehensive list of everything cool about a cappella, 200 Reasons to Love A Cappella is our best attempt at assembling a list of what makes it great.
For the uninitiated, it can be difficult to understand why people love a cappella. Heck, even for those of us who do actively enjoy it, it can be difficult to put into words why we enjoy this art form so. While we’ll never have a truly comprehensive list of everything cool about a cappella, 200 Reasons to Love A Cappella is our best attempt at assembling a list of what makes it great.
For the uninitiated, it can be difficult to understand why people love a cappella. Heck, even for those of us who do actively enjoy it, it can be difficult to put into words why we enjoy this art form so. While we’ll never have a truly comprehensive list of everything cool about a cappella, 200 Reasons to Love A Cappella is our best attempt at assembling a list of what makes it great.
For the uninitiated, it can be difficult to understand why people love a cappella. Heck, even for those of us who do actively enjoy it, it can be difficult to put into words why we enjoy this art form so. While we’ll never have a truly comprehensive list of everything cool about a cappella, 200 Reasons to Love A Cappella is our best attempt at assembling a list of what makes it great.
For the uninitiated, it can be difficult to understand why people love a cappella. Heck, even for those of us who do actively enjoy it, it can be difficult to put into words why we enjoy this art form so. While we’ll never have a truly comprehensive list of everything cool about a cappella, 200 Reasons to Love A Cappella is our best attempt at assembling a list of what makes it great.
For the uninitiated, it can be difficult to understand why people love a cappella. Heck, even for those of us who do actively enjoy it, it can be difficult to put into words why we enjoy this art form so. While we’ll never have a truly comprehensive list of everything cool about a cappella, 200 Reasons to Love A Cappella is our best attempt at assembling a list of what makes it great.
For the uninitiated, it can be difficult to understand why people love a cappella. Heck, even for those of us who do actively enjoy it, it can be difficult to put into words why we enjoy this art form so. While we’ll never have a truly comprehensive list of everything cool about a cappella, 200 Reasons to Love A Cappella is our best attempt at assembling a list of what makes it great.
Reason #18: Drum Solos
There are a cappella performers who can do vocal percussion, and then there are those who can pull off drum solos.
Drum soloists—a gifted branch of vocal percussionists--not only keep the beat, but truly own it, capable of taking the stage on their own and unleashing performances that match, if not trump the rest of what’s going on in a given song. Such performances are every bit as a captivating as a traditional drum solo, if not more so for the marvel of the artist doing all if it with the human mouth. This is where are a cappella transcends art into a legit spectator’s phenomenon that can appeal to an incredibly wide fanbase.
For the uninitiated, it can be difficult to understand why people love a cappella. Heck, even for those of us who do actively enjoy it, it can be difficult to put into words why we enjoy this art form so. While we’ll never have a truly comprehensive list of everything cool about a cappella, 200 Reasons to Love A Cappella is our best attempt at assembling a list of what makes it great.
Reason #17: The SoCal VoCals, Spring 2008
I’m relegating this reason to just one particular semester’s incarnation of the group because, as good as the group has been in general, this marked the first I saw of them, and this is one of the great incarnations of any group in collegiate a cappell history.
For every brand of competition there are these stories—teams that have to emerge from defeat to pull themselves up to new heights. Groups that undergo rigorous preparation and practice, best summed up in some eighties training montage. The So Cal VoCals represent that story, as regular ICCA performers who just kept learning from past disappointments; who took the time to study YouTube videos, to watch the competition, and to quite clearly and quite frankly work their butts off to become the very best group they could possibly be.
From the innovative choreography of “Feeling Good,” to the pitch perfect choral blend of “All The Things You Are,” to the all-around stunning finale of “Somebody to Love.” It’s rare for me to give a group a standing ovation in competition unless I know the performers personally. This was a rare exception that rule, as I simply couldn’t help myself. You just don’t get much better than The SoCal VoCals that night.
For the uninitiated, it can be difficult to understand why people love a cappella. Heck, even for those of us who do actively enjoy it, it can be difficult to put into words why we enjoy this art form so. While we’ll never have a truly comprehensive list of everything cool about a cappella, 200 Reasons to Love A Cappella is our best attempt at assembling a list of what makes it great.
