LOTSA A CAPPELLA
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St. Louis, Missouri area links

a St. Louis area vocal jazz octet

BachSociety of St. Louis

The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
Now celebrating their 51st season, the Chamber Chorus performs six a cappella concerts each year under the direction of Philip Barnes.

Masterworks Chorale
The Masterworks Chorale and Children's Chorus, conducted by A. Dennis Sparger, are based in Belleville, Illinois

Sheldon Concert Hall
A great place to hear a cappella music (or any kind of music) in a smaller, acousically fine hall.

St. Louis Cathedral Concerts
The Saint Louis Cathedral Basilica's concert series

Ambassadors of Harmony
The International Barbershop Chorus Champions are right here in St. Charles, Missouri.

St. Louis Harmony Chorus
Sweet Adelines International women's barbershop chorus conducted by Sandi Wright

River Blenders Chorus
Sweet Adelines International chorus conducted by Diane Huber

St. Louis Shape Note Singers
The St. Louis Shape Note Singers meet on the first, third, and fifth Monday evenings of each month to sing. It's free, it's fun, and you'll meet lotsa nice folks.

Gateway Men's Chorus

Charis, a lesbian chorus open to all women.

The Focal Point is a great place to hear acoustic and folk music.

Washington University Pikers

JOY on 99.1 FM, "Classic 99" with host Ron Klemm, featuring sacred choral music.

88.1 FM - KDHX Community Radio in St. Louis, Missouri, playing all kinds of music! You can listen online in real time, or check out archived programs to hear or view playlists.

KDHX's Larry Weir

Larry Weir, longtime programmer/host of Songwriters Showcase on KDHX, passed away early Wednesday morning, January 13, 2010. For more information see CaringBridge.org.

Larry will be missed by all whose lives he touched, whether as a personal friend, or as a friendly voice on KDHX.

KDHX tribute to Larry

Arts Zipper
Arts events in the St. Louis area.

Playback STL
Covers all kinds of music.

STL today is the St. Louis Post Dispatch's online newspaper.

First Night St. Louis
Celebrate New Year's Eve in Grand Center.

Fun Stuff

Second Life art gallery features KDHX
The online game Second Life is a home for all kinds of creative stuff. Annie Octavia in Second Life opened her art gallery on Sunday November 5, 2006. Whenever a player enters the gallery, KDHX's live stream is playing.

Chanukah candles sing a cappella
Here's one of my favorites. The candles on the menorah sing a Chanukah song. Each candle can be clicked individually, or click the red candle in the middle to have them all sing together. (Like "regular folks," they don't all sing perfectly in tune.)

Listen to more A Cappella music online

All A Cappella on WERS
Saturdays and Sundays 2 to 5 PM Eastern Time, from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts

The Harmony Network
Rich Taylor brings you "All Vocal Harmony, All The Time" from the studios of WRVM in the New York area. Listen online.

Vocal Chords on KRNU
Rick Alloway's a cappella radio program in streaming audio from KRNU, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, at 8 A.M Friday mornings.

A Cappella Always
Eric Mueller's "A Cappella Always" and "A Cappella Holiday," the 24x7 all-a cappella Internet radio stations, broadcasting since 2001.

Acappella U
collegiate a cappella podcast

Encore
Barbershop and Vocal Jazz from New Zealand. Many options to listen online.

Primarily A Cappella Radio
Listen in RealAudio; select your favorite genre of a cappella music and listen anytime.

Read about A Cappella stuff

Contemporary A Cappella Society
For information about all things related to a cappella music, a great place to start is the A Cappella Almanac, maintained by the Contemporary A Cappella Society. They have recently updated their website.

Primarily A Cappella
Read reviews of CDs and buy online

a-cappella.com (formerly Mainely A Cappella)
Read reviews of CDs and buy online

Fasola.org
Lots of links to information about Sacred Harp & shape note singing

A Cappella News
John Neal's blog - "A Cappella News: uncompromised views of the unaccompanied voice."

Voice And Style
Angela Pancella's book about Marc Connors, founding member of the Nylons.

Angela Pancella: "The Persuasions Sing U2"
If you caught Angela's interview with the Persuasions on Lotsa A Cappella on November 20, 2005, you may recognize some of the quotations from Jayotis Washington.

A Cappella group websites

Ball in the House

The Bobs
The Bobs feature clever covers and quirky originals.

Cadence
Four guys, four microphones, no instruments = Cadence, the award winning vocal band from Toronto, Canada: "instruments are for surgeons"

Eclipse

Duwende
"...cool, hip, and intelligent..." Their new CD is "Radio Screaming" - highly recommended!

Bobby McFerrin
Multi-talented winner of ten Grammy Awards, master of improvisation... Bobby McFerrin is so much more than his big hit "Don't Worry, Be Happy."

Mediaeval Baebes

m-pact
This talented six-man group has a new CD available now.

The Nylons

Pieces of 8
Lush, dense harmonies.

The Persuasions
The Godfathers of A Cappella! Still Ain't Got No Band!
Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town
The Persuasions' former lead singer, Jerry is back to singing a cappella again with Talk of the Town

Rockapella
Still doin' it Rockapella! You know them from the TV show "Carmen Sandiego" and the Folger's commercials.

Sixth Wave

Sweet Honey In The Rock

Swingle Singers

Ulali
trio of First Nations (Native American) women

Vocal Spectrum