 Gdansk Choir FestivalFriday, February 17, 2012 - Sunday, February 19, 2012 Gdansk (Poland) will host an International Gdansk Choir Festival from 17-19th February 2012. It's festival for competitive and non-competitive choirs. This year the head of the jury will be composer Vytautas Miskinis together with the Jury members from Macedonia, Singapore Slovakia and Poland. Most events will take place in Concert Hall of Gdansk Academy of Music as well as additional concerts in Gdansk and region. Further details can be found here. |
 Voices Festival, LiverpoolFriday, March 16, 2012 12pm - Sunday, March 18, 2012 1pm A three day festival of a cappella singing curated by Sense of Sound. Performers include Connie Lush and Shlomo and the festival will feature a debate of singing and health. "From hip hop to barbershop and contemporary jazz to choral, Voices a cappella festival will showcase the full range of a cappella singing styles, giving plenty of opportunity for everyone to interact, get involved and get singing!". Festival pass is £30 before 20th Feb and £40 thereafter although tickets are also available for individual events. See www.senseofsound.org for further details. |
 Sing a Cappella! 2012 coaching day & concertSunday, April 29, 2012 9:30am A unique opportunity to be tutored by former Swingle and Voces8 singers, for you to attend as an individual, or as a group. Further details will be posted here shortly. |
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Sweet Adelines (UK) Convention Friday, May 11, 2012 - Sunday, May 13, 2012 |
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The story so far ...
On 27 January 2008 six groups of a cappella singers (96 singers in total) from varying musical styles came together for a day festival of quality coaching, and singing to each other. They enjoyed the experience so much that it was agreed that a British a cappella organisation should be brought into existence so that there could be more of the same! Since then, two more festivals have been organised, the latest on 7 March 2010.
This website is being developed to serve Sing a cappella! – the name adopted for the new society at the inaugural general meeting in October 2009. We also adopted a constitution and elected the first national executive committee at that meeting.
The society's aim is to support groups singing in harmony and singing predominantly a cappella, from duets through to large choirs and choruses. We hope that Sing a Cappella! will be of particular appeal to those groups or musical styles for which there is no support organisation currently in existence. Barbershop choruses and quartets have their own associations in the UK which offer all this and more for them. College groups are similarly supported by The Voice Festival UK.
The initial challenge continues, ie. to discover just who is out there singing a cappella either in mixed voice groups or in all men or all women groups around the UK. No-one really knows. We had 37 groups affiliate to us early on, but we suspect that it's just the tip of the iceberg.
We also have had a scheme for Individual Membership since the beginning, but at our first AGM in October 2010 we also introduced a scheme of Group Membership, whereby both the group and all of its singers are members . The drop downs from ' Join' in the main menu of the site will take you to the membership area, where you'll find a full description of benefits and costs.
Alongside the October 2010 AGM, we introduced a different kind of workshop which was based on the individual rather than on singing groups. We all enjoyed Suzi Digby's enthusiasm and expertise and, by sheer co-incidence of course, it also provided us with a well attended first AGM!
Last Updated (Friday, 25 March 2011 21:08)
