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A Cappella Live! A CAPPELLA LIVE! Monday, February 3, 2020; 7:30 pm Tuesday, February 4, 2020; 7:30 pm Columbia Artists Presents A CAPPELLA LIVE! Featuring Committed, The Filharmonic, Blake Lewis & Women of the World Deke Sharon, Creative Director COMMITTED THETHE FILHARMONICFILHARMONIC BLAKE LEWIS WOMEN OF THE WORLD DEKE SHARON, Creative Director Producer of "The Sing-Off" and Arranger and Musical Director for the "Pitch Perfect" Trilogy AUXILIARY PAGE 53 2019-2020 PROGRAM GUIDE www.harriscenter.net A CAPPELLA LIVE! continued A Cappella Live! 2020 USA Tour Program Act1 [See Insert] One 15-minute Intermission. Act 2 [See Insert] A CAPPELLA LIVE! Artistic Director & Vocal Arrangements Deke Sharon Tour Booked and Produced by Columbia Artists Company Manager Production Manager Paul Silveira Mike Kasprzyk Audio Engineer Choreographer Charlie Friday Kristin Denehy COMMITTED THE FILHARMONIC WOMEN OF THE WORLD Randell Hall Joe Caigoy, vocalist Ayumi Ueda Brent Hoyte Jules Cruz, vocal bass Annette Philip Geston Pierre Trace Gaynor, vocalist Débo Ray Maurice Staple Niko Del Rey, beat boxer Giorgia Renosto Theron “Therry” Thomas II Vj Rosales, vocalist BEAT BOXER BLAKE LEWIS AUXILIARY PAGE 54 2019-2020 PROGRAM GUIDE www.harriscenter.net A CAPPELLA LIVE! continued ABOUT A CAPPELLA LIVE! opened for acts such as Fifth Harmony, Pentatonix, Future and Filipino super sensation Gary V. They consist of The past few years have been a Renaissance for a cappella vocalists Vj Rosales, Joe Caigoy, Trace Gaynor, Vocal — with a perfect storm of movies, television, YouTube, and Bass Jules Cruz, and Beat Boxer Niko Del Rey. radio — breathing new life and excitement into the world’s first musical form. BLAKE LEWIS first came to national attention as one of the most unique contestants ever to compete on American And as great as it is to see and hear a cappella performances Idol, and long before that, as a teenager, he was well- on screens large and small, the best way to experience vocal known as “Bshorty” in Seattle’s a cappella, hip-hop, and harmony is in person. And so A Cappella Live was born. rave scenes. But with the release of his ambitious and completely independent third album, Portrait of a Built on the classic Motown review tour model, A Cappella Chameleon, Blake is taking things to a whole new level. Live is bringing four of the nation’s greatest a cappella acts to performing arts centers around America: WOMEN OF THE WORLD is an award-winning international a cappella quartet that performs original and traditional folk The charming boyband sound and moves of The Filharmonic music in 32 languages with a contemporary twist. The four The rich harmonies of Gospel/R&B legends Committed Chart-topping lead vocals and live-looping beatbox by Blake Lewis singers represent Japan, Italy, India, and USA (by way of Internationally-inspired songstresses Women of the World Haiti). Despite differences in upbringing, language, religion, ethnicity, food, and music, they are bound by one unique Never before have four acts of this caliber been brought desire: to explore sounds, rhythms, and musical vocabulary together on the same stage on the same night. Audiences from all over the world. Since 2008, Women of the World will have an opportunity to hear each group perform has journeyed through the music of Africa, South America, their greatest and best-known hits as well as large-scale Asia and Europe, presenting audiences an exhilarating production numbers featuring all four groups, plus some additional experience through chants, storytelling, dance, percussion, special surprises. and improvisation. Mentored by Grammy award-winning maestro Bobby McFerrin, Women of the World have also A Cappella Live is a show that is guaranteed to appeal to all ages, spanning a wide range of music with something new collaborated with powerhouse American songstress Nona happening at every turn. Hendryx, African vocal icon Angelique Kidjo, Greek classical artist Mario Frangoulis, and the Boston Pops Orchestra led COMMITTED is an a cappella group composed of six by maestro conductor Keith Lockhart. Women of the male vocalists from Huntsville, Alabama. All are graduates of World are Ayumi Ueda, Annette Philip, Débo Ray, and Oakwood University. The group won the second season of the Giorgia Renosto. musical competition The "Sing-Off" on NBC, performing a jaw-dropping arrangement of “We Are the Champions” DEKE SHARON (Vocal Arrangements) is creative artistic from Queen. In 2011, Committed released their self-titled director of A Cappella Live! Heralded as “The Father of album, Committed, on Epic Records. Their 2015 Christmas Contemporary A Cappella,” (Entertainment Weekly), Deke album, Home for Christmas, earned the group a Grammy Sharon is responsible for the current sound of modern a nomination for the rendition of “Do You Hear What I Hear.” cappella, having created the dense vocal-instrumental Committed are Randell Hall, Brent Hoyte, Theron “Therry” Thomas, Maurice Staple, and Geston Pierre. sound in college, subsequently spreading it around the world. Deke produced NBC’s “The Sing-Off” worldwide THE FILHARMONIC, a Los Angeles-based a cappella group (USA, Netherlands, China, South Africa) and served as of Filipino-American youngsters has much to sing about. arranger, on-site music director and vocal producer for After being featured in NBC’S hit musical competition "The Universal's Pitch Perfect 1, 2 & 3 starring Anna Kendrick & Sing-Off," the 5-piece vocal group made the semi-finals and Rebel Wilson. Deke founded the Contemporary A Cappella joined The Sing-OffNational Tour. They were featured in the Society while in college, and is responsible for many seminal a Universal Pictures hit movie, Pitch Perfect 2, and became a cappella programs. He is also contemporary cappella's most viral sensation after their "Late Late Show" appearances. prolific arranger, having arranged over 2,000 songs, In 2016, The Filharmonic brought their unique blend of hip with a thousand of them in print worldwide with Hal hop, pop, and ’90s nostalgia to more than 150 stages nationwide and were named the #1 college booked Leonard/Contemporary A Cappella Publishing. He has entertainment group of the year. Most recently they have written 5 books “Acappella Arranging” (2012), “A Cappella” AUXILIARY PAGE 55 2019-2020 PROGRAM GUIDE www.harriscenter.net A CAPPELLA LIVE! continued (2015) and “The Heart of Vocal Harmony” (2016) “A Cappella to side, it’s an almost overwhelming display of the power of Warmups for Pop and Jazz Choir" (2017) and “So You human expression. Want To Sing A Cappella” (2017). As the founder, director and arranger for the House Jacks for 24 So sit back, relax, and enjoy tonight’s show. If you find yourself years, the original “Rock Band Without Instruments,” singing along, don’t be shy. And if you want to sing in a Deke shared the stage with countless music legends, group in your area, or start a group, feel free to reach out including Ray Charles, James Brown, Crosby Stills and to me personally - [email protected]. My not-so-subtle Nash, Run DMC, The Temptations, LL Cool J and the Four motive in presenting an event like this is to get more Tops, and performed for luminaries including President Bill people singing, and spread more social harmony through Clinton. He has produced dozens of award-winning a vocal harmony. We’d love to have you, and yes: it’s as fun cappella albums (including Straight No Chaser, Committed, as it looks. Nota, Street Corner Symphony, the Tufts Beelzebubs, Pitch Perfect and In Transit), created a cappella groups for — Deke Sharon Disneyland and Disneyworld, and frequently tours the world teaching students and professional singers. His voice can be heard in commercials and video games, including “Just Dance Kids 2.” He is one of only 20 honorary members of the Barbershop Harmony Society since 1938, as well as an honorary member of BYU Vocal Point, received CASA's lifetime achievement award in 2016 and the Tufts Barnum award for excellence in education in 2017. You can see him on television on Lifetime’s “Pitch Slapped” and BBC One’s: “Pitch Battle.” His latest project is Disney’s "DCappella." PROGRAM NOTE The highest praise one can give an instrumentalist is to say that they make their instrument “sing”… which nowadays seems unnecessary as today’s top a cappella groups are singing every instrumental part from the rhythm section (bass & drums) through guitars, trumpets, and even synthesizers. A cappella is the oldest music in the world, and yet with modern techniques it’s also the freshest sound, with today’s groups welcoming a new legion of fans into the incredible world of vocal harmony. Tonight’s acts are four of the very best in today’s a cappella scene, each representing a different style and sensibility. Each are successful performers on their own, but when presented together in this inaugural year of A Cappella Live, they make a statement about the incredible power and diversity possible within vocal harmony. Tonight you’ll hear rock, pop, jazz, folk, r&b, gospel, techno and so many other styles, yet every sound is human. Diversity is at the center of it all: a diversity of vocal sounds, of styles, of backgrounds and traditions. Yet when it’s all brought together, presented side AUXILIARY PAGE 56 2019-2020 PROGRAM GUIDE www.harriscenter.net.
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