Schools with great "A CAPELLA" groups

<p>The University of Rochester's Midnight Ramblers are in the top 3 in the nation... :)</p>

<p>Bucknell currently has 4: Bison Chips (male), Silhouettes (female), and 2 co-ed: Two Past Midnight and Beyond Unison.</p>

<p>Have no clue what (if) they are ranked, or even if they care about rank or just sing because they love it.</p>

<p>Their (MRs) versions of "Mr. Brightside", "Beautiful Soul" and "Question!" are absolutely amazing...</p>

<p>Colgate 13 Men's group is fabulous!</p>

<p>You've heard the college lightbulb joke about how many Tufts students it takes to screw in a lightbulb?</p>

<p>Two--One to change the bulb and the other to say loudly how he did it as well as an Ivy League student. </p>

<p>Reason I bring this up? See Post #27 in this thread. LOL!!!</p>

<p>I've heard some amazing a capella groups and some that were only mediocre. The whiffenpoofs are definitely good. It almost pains me to say this, but the USC Reverse Osmosis is an amazingly good group. So is UCLA Awaken. I like UPenn Off the Beat and UCB DeCadence as well. I'm big on music (sound tech) and good a capella is simply heaven.</p>

<p>You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a good group at Michigan. Sounds like that's the case at a lot of campuses.</p>

<p>There are the two Glee Clubs, and then the Friar's Club (more exclusive, for men) and then about seventy-eleven other groups of every configuration. They do a "Monsters of A Capella" concert each year. My grad school roommate was in the glee club and founded a co-ed group and was getting calls for gigs all the time.</p>

<p>The search begins and ends with Noteworthy at UC Berkeley. It's an 8 person male group and they're amazing; trust me, I've sang w/ them and I plan on pursuing a cappella/choral music at college next year.</p>

<p>Brown has the highest a capella group to student ratio in the country.</p>

<p>so, with all of these great groups out there, are A Capella singers in demand, or is there plenty of supply?</p>

<p>Excellent a cappella singers are in demand. There is usually plenty of supply of mediocre singers. The combination of skills required for overall excellence in a jazz/pop group is rare indeed, especially among freshmen. Most members of most groups have one or more areas of strength and other not so strong areas. If you have strong pitch, blend, musical memory, stage presence, control, range, and soloing ability, heck yes you'll be in demand, on any campus.</p>

<p>More groups on a smaller campus is not necessarily better (at least not if you value musical quality as well as participation). The talent and audience pools are usually finite, and all the groups on a campus suffer when they stretch those pools too thin.</p>

<p>To read more about some groups' recorded work, visit:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.rarb.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.rarb.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>But be skeptical of claims that a group is "top 3 in the country" or the like. I've judged in the national tournament, and most of the best and most established groups do not participate. It's still a great thing to participate in the competition, but it's nothing like college sports where being #3 in the NCAA really means being #3 in the nation.</p>

<p>My sister is in a group at Haverford College known as the "Outskirts" (all female). A Capella is HUGE there, the singers are the celebrities of the campus and they have great concerts at least every month or so by the numerous groups on campus.</p>

<p>Add Washington & Lee to this list also</p>

<p>University of Oregon's On the Rocks is the best group I have heard. I just got their CD and it is amazing, top notch stuff. Their version of Coldplay's Yellow is ridiculous. Check out their site: <a href="http://www.uoontherocks.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.uoontherocks.com&lt;/a> </p>

<p>Oh yea, I've heard Haverford's group live, theyre not bad either.</p>

<p>I've only heard Binghamton's Binghamton Crosbys. At Potsdam/Crane School of Music, we have the Potsdam Pointercounts (guys) and the A# Arrangement (girls).</p>

<p>hehe, just grab a BOCA album and find out where the groups are from</p>