Catch TAS Youth Voices at QS WorldARTS Tour Singapore!
In response to demand for a specialised marketing and student recruitment facility for local and worldwide creative and performing arts institutions, QS WorldARTS Tour will be a unique series of dedicated international promotional events in key Asian cities. QS WorldARTS Tour events will be staged in an environment uniquely prepared to support the special cultures of the creative and performing arts and the special people who teach and practise them. From diploma and undergraduate candidates, this is the best place to seek all academic possibilities to get a headstart in the creative career, plus, getting the industry experts' advice to pursue your desired course of study at home or abroad. Representing your institute, you will also get opportunities to showcase your own works of art, to make a proud statement for your school, at this well-attended event. So come catch us in any of the following five dynamic Asian arts and creative hubs, Singapore 23 February 2010 Raffles City Convention Centre

All Wrapped Up Christmas album is back!
Dearest friends, We’ve finally done it! Our Christmas album, which has sold 7000 copies so far, is back! You can find the album at the Esplanade Shop, all Gramaphone outlets, all Link boutiques and PS Cafe outlets. We are also very happy to announce that The Christmas Song (Track #4 in the album) has just been chosen for a compilation album by CASA (the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America) featuring the very best of a cappella Christmas music from around the world! The sale of Notes from an Island, our second album and charity project with Kidz Horizon, was completed this year in March. With your support, we managed to raise $28,000 for them. Thank you so much! On behalf of Vocaluptuous, have a wonderful holiday season blessed with good health, good food, and the amazing company of family and friends!

The Real Community
The Real Community is a new place to meet; for everybody who is drawn to vocal music - singers, choir conductors, arrangers, composers, teachers, vocal groups, choirs, and a cappella fans, regardless of whether you are a professional or an amateur. The site is hosted by The Real Group and will be developed in co-operation between the site members and the leadership team. To begin with, here are some of our visions: * A place to share your music * Get qualified feedback on recordings and arrangements * Publish your gigs in the calendar * Learn new things from some of the best teachers within the various fields of vocal music You can upload photos and video, chat with other site members, participate in the site Forum, and publish to the site Blog, among other things. During the first months, all site activities at The Real Community will be free for all registered members. Later, some of the site's extra features will be charged for. Welcome! The Real Group

Speech Level Singing Masterclass
Jeffrey Skouson, a Master Instructor of the Speech Level Singing technique, will be giving a vocal masterclass in Singapore on the 28th of November 2009. Speech Level Singing® (SLS) is a technique which makes singing as natural and easy as speaking. Used by more that 130 Grammy winners and developed by Seth Riggs, legendary vocal coach to the stars, SLS produces an effortless, powerful, and expressive voice. Because you learn how to sing and not what to sing, Speech Level Singing® can be applied to any type of music. SLS Master Teacher Jeffrey Skouson trains some 150 private students at Skouson Vocal Studios in Las Vegas. As a Level 5 instructor for Speech Level Singing and a member of the SLS Instructor Management Team, he has lectured and taught in Europe and throughout the United States. His clients include a wide array of pop, country, and Broadway stars, including lead performers in Mamma Mia, Les Miserables, and Hairspray.

Vocal Jazz Summit 2009
Performances by the best vocal jazz groups around, coaching with world-class clinicians, a beatbox workshop with vocal whizz kid and vice-world champion Roxorloops , the most promising European newcomers - the Vocal Jazz Summit 2009 offers a glimpse of what today’s vocal scene has to offer. A feast for all aficionados of a cappella, a must-see for jazz lovers, a unique opportunity for young groups to learn the tricks of the trade from the masters. If you always wanted to be coached by Janis Siegel, this is your chance! Guest of Honour will be Ward Swingle, founder of the Swingle Singers. One of today’s finest a cappella ensembles,The Real Group shot to fame with their stunning arrangements of the great jazz standards and a unique sound. By now, their original compositions, too, are sung by groups and choirs all around the world. Five time grammy award winning ensemble The Swingle Singers, defined the vocal sound of a generation, crossing over between classical music and jazz Using their voices as a
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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 classic but simple barbershop arrangement of Come Go with Me and the guys proved to be able to sound effortlessly, harmonically tight in this piece. Benedict [KE's baritone] even attempted a familiar Korean ballad I Believe from the Korean movie "My Sassy Girl", after which Jason jokingly said a greeting in Korean. The audience even had the chance to "support" KE by waving their handphone lights along with the disco ball light with the feeling of a travel back in time. Despite the members having bouts of flu as KE mentioned during the concert, KE did their utmost best.Especially so for tenor lead Kim Beng who gave quite an impressionable lead on a pop song [ title unknown?] where he had to challenge the mezzo-soprano register of Susanna [ KE's mezzo-soprano]. I admit it was a brave feat for KE to attempt pop-rock genre and even imitating the string ensemble as they seem more comfortable and at ease singing the jazz genre. After all, they are more jazz- influenced. Ching Mei