Camp A Cappella - Champs Edition
Here’s your opportunity to learn from the professionals! Our Camp A Cappella series offers you workshops with top international singers and trainers, covering all the various elements of a cappella singing. All the sessions are suitable for everyone, beginners and pros alike, whether you want to gain some insight into the ways of singing, get individual tips and tricks from the pros or expose your group to different styles. A variety of 4 workshops will be available for beginner singers as well as experienced singers on the 1st & 2nd of August. The time slots are 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm on both days. Tickets are at $25 per workshop, $90 for a Camp pass.

A Cappella Championships 09
Don't miss your chance to be a part of the biggest A Cappella competition ever held in Singapore! A total of 31 groups has registered for the A Cappella Championships 09, held over 3 days, 31 July at The Arts House Chamber and 1 & 2 August at Esplanade Recital Studio. Tickets for the Finals on 1 August (Choirs) and 2 August (Open/College) at Esplanade Recital Studio are available from The A Cappella Society, find all infos and details on our website www.a-cappella.org.sg Mrs Fields - Prize Sponsor of the A Cappella Championships Thanks to Mrs. Fields, you now have the chance to enjoy the best of both worlds! Present your ticket stubs for the A Cappella Championships and you get a 10% discount for all products at all Mrs Fields outlets. Not only that, coupons will be distributed on the competition days at the door before the start of competition. You will be entitled to a free nibbler with no strings attached when you present the coupon at any Mrs Fields outlet! (Not valid with other promotions) Coupons are limited and they are given out on a first come first serve basis, so do come early and support your favourite A Cappella teams!

Press Release June
Camp A Cappella 09 A 2-day music camp that will work with a cappella singers new and current to ‘transpose’ them from the stoic choral singer to an enlivened singer, full of inspiration, commitment and confidence who will bring that energy back to school choirs and more! This camp will serve to help all singers, choral or not, to appreciate pop and jazz a cappella in a whole new way. We aim to showcase to singers the differences and more importantly the similarities in singing techniques in a cappella versus choral performance. This camp will also touch on the wide array of skill sets unique to a cappella singing & performance. Camp A Cappella 09 18th & 19th June, 9am-5pm: Student Camp $25 per day ($20 bulk booking) 20th June, 9am-5pm: Public / Adults, $25 Safra Tampines Registration at The A Cappella Society, www.a-cappella.org.sg A Cappella Championships 2009 The Aca Champs, as it is endearingly known as, is a programme that aims to provide positive reinforcement for all participating groups

Camp A Cappella Tote Board approved
The A Cappella Society's annual Camp A Cappella comes around again this year and it is set for next Thur & Fri (18th & 19th) at Tampines Safra. This 2 day camp will only cost $20/day (orginally $50 for 2 days) for students (9am to 5pm excluding lunch) and the end result is learning skills on performance and singing through to pop songs and making a lot of new friends. More details about the camp is on www.a-cappella.org.sg or you can email us your queries. For fellow teachers and adult learners, we have a full day workshop on the 20th also at Safra Tampines at $25 (9am - 5pm), hope to see you there.

The Yale Alley Cats concert sold out!
We want to thank all of you for supporting the concert by The Yale Alley Cats at The Arts House Chamber and for making it such a successful event. The tickets are already sold out but don't worry, you still have a chance to see The Yale Alley Cats in concert. On Friday, 12 June, the group will perform at The American Club, tickets are still available at $60 including dinner, please contact the club for details and tickets. You also have a chance to catch The Yale Alley Cats live for two shorter performances, tonight, 10 June, at The Esplanade Concourse and on Friday, 12 June 12.30pm, at Tan Tock Seng Hospital as part of the hospital's Celebrate the Arts programme. We hope you enjoy the performance!

School Info June
Dear Teachers, Camp A Cappella is coming soon and we would like to invite your students to join us for two fun-filled days of singing and music making A Cappella-style. Through a hands-on approach the participants will experience what makes a song, how to put a personal touch into it and how to enhance it with a lively performance. Please find more infos below and contact us for more details and registrations. Also, the A Cappella Championships are coming up again and the deadline for registrations is drawing near. Make sure to sign up your choir or A Cappella group for this exciting event that creates a lot of positive energy every year! Rock Pop A Cappella with nanu *Arts Education Programme 2009/10* The program presents A Cappella singing through an interactive session and demonstrates different styles and how a song is put together. It is a hands-on approach to exploring a cappella singing and vocal percussing. Hosted by a team from The A Cappella Society singing as an a cappella vocal band

June Newsletter
Dear singing enthusiasts! There are only few tickets left for our upcoming concert with one of the world's leading college a cappella groups, The Yale Alley Cats, so hurry if you haven't got your ticket yet! Only one week later we have our annual Camp A Cappella. There will again be a shortened, one-day version for working adults on Saturday, so register today and join us for some singing tips and insights into harmonising. We would also like to remind all teams again that the deadline for registrations for the 2009 A Cappella Championships is coming soon. Make sure to send in your registrations on time! Lastly, we want to thank everyone who made the recent performances so successful. Youth Voices and Key Elements' Late Nite concert were both sold out before showday and the audiences visibly enjoyed the performances. We hope to see many of you again at one of our upcoming concerts. The Yale Alley Cats at The Arts House 11 June 09 - Few tickets left! Join us for this rare opportunity to watch one

Agapella presents... Seven @ 8: the birthday concert
Agapella's Youtube video of its rendition of Pachelbel's Canon in D has been viewed more than 20,000 times and has attracted rave reviews from around the world for its smooth blend of harmonies. Yet the home grown contemporary a cappella group has never performed the song in public... until now. Be among the first to hear them perform this song and many other contemporary numbers spanning a plethora of genres, all this in a two-night only musical fiesta on 10th & 11th July 2009! In celebration of their 7th anniversary, Agapella presents their biggest concert yet, Seven @ 8. The group will serve up fan favourites like "I Will Follow Him" (popularised by the movie, Sister Act) and "Testify To Love", on top of brand new arrangements. Among the new numbers, don't miss the re-written lyrics to the tune of the classic "Good 'Ol A Cappella". The concert will be a delight for the entire family with Agapella's own unique brand of music and tight harmonies. Tickets are $7, available at SISTIC.

FIRST impression of Key Elements' late nite FIRSTS concert on 29 May 2009
Upon stepping in the Esplanade Recital studio, it was pretty much a full house last night, a concert attended by friends and fans alike. I came as a supporter of local a cappella with my friend in delightful expectation of what repertoire jazz-infused a cappella group Key Elements [KE] could come up with. As expected , KE opened with their signature jazz-tinged arranged of I'm Beginning To See The Light. However, the audience truly warmed up to KE when they mentioned their stint and the song which they could not reach pass the 1st stanza at the Hokkien Huay Kuan with a cutesy choreography. In fact, I was rather impressed with the simplistic jazz take of a familiar Hokkien classic ???? Jit Lang Jit Pua as sang by Jason Ong, the songwriter-arranger of the group. Yes, that song had the audience hooting in laughter. Not only that, the audience were amusingly prompted by the KE "girls" [ Susanna and Hui Lian] to be screaming fans when the "boys" of KE [ Vaughn, Kim Beng, Jason and Benedict] sang a classi

Songs For Gaia
In conjunction with ECNAD's 13th Anniversary, come and view this exciting contemporary dance piece choreographed by home-grown international artist Tan How Choon combined with dramatic stage designs by ECNAD Artistic Director Lim Chin Huat. Reflecting on the subtlety of nature and its omnipresence, Songs for Gaia aims to inspire and awaken a delicate part of the human experience and its relationship with the environment. In creating an emotional landscape inspired by nature and subtly reflecting on humanity, the dance contains whimsical penguin-inspired characters as well as weather-inspired movements while showcasing voice, movement and theatre talents of the casts and creator. The A Cappella Society Youth Voices, a local award-winning singing and performance group will also be featured in the performance.